The history of the Oakland Estates neighborhood can be traced back to a land grant awarded to a man who fought in the Battle of Bexar to defend San Antonio and force Mexican forces to retreat.

The Chapel of the Incarnate Word, the Lourdes Grotto, and Brackenridge Villa were all built over 120 years ago and were some of the first buildings in San Antonio.

The namesakes of military heroes, and one controversial figure, are tied to streets and places in the Southwest Side neighborhood.

Texas State's Witliff Collections has doubled its archive of the late author Cormac McCarthy, whose searing, often brutal works garnered acclaim and several film adaptations.

The 500-year flood — that’s what we saw back on Oct. 17, 1998.

In this episode of “Know My Neighborhood,” KSAT explores Pride and Perseverance in the South San neighborhood.

From Belgian flower fields to a deadly military plane crash, KSAT spoke with long-time residents of South San about what it was like growing up in the neighborhood.

In this episode of “Know My Neighborhood,” we explore the good, the bad and the frustrating of South San.

KSAT explores the unique history of South San, a neighborhood located on San Antonio's south side that is centered on "Pride & Perseverance."

The author behind the markers said his goal is to preserve Black History in San Antonio.

Camels will return to the Alamo on Saturday for World Camel Day.

Why would a small town in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila have a long history of celebrating Juneteenth? It began after Black Seminole Indians were forced to join other tribes on the harrowing Trail of Tears in the mid-1800s.

Wednesday marked Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston and announced that enslaved people in the United States were free. San Antonio organizations honored the holiday with educational events, festivals and more.

The School of Ballet San Antonio aims to teach children all aspects of the ballet when they attend its programs.

Summer time means hitting the pool for many families, but during segregation not everyone was allowed to go to just any pool.

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston and announced that enslaved people in the United States were free.

All the biggest museums in the Alamo City have at least one day a month or a few hours a week when they offer free admission to Bexar County residents.

Imagine the pressure of having to accurately forecast the weather with countless lives and the fate of the free world at stake. That's exactly what a team of British and American meteorologists were tasked to do 80 years ago for the battle of D-Day.

Nearly 160,000 soldiers, 11,000 aircraft, 7,000 ships and other vehicles participated in what still is the largest seaborne invasion ever.

El Progreso Memorial Library has partnered with Humanities Texas to organize and catalog hundreds of items donated after the shooting. They will also start an oral history program.

Scenic Loop is a neighborhood with character, and two homes built around abandoned train cars and a streetcar, are nostalgic proof.

The Scenic Loop Helotes Creek holds a rich history filled with geological wonders, indigenous tribes, and notable landmarks.

The military community is saying goodbye to the old Wilford Hall Medical Center at Joint Base San Antonio – Lackland.

The Asian festival takes place this weekend at La Villita, with tickets for those over 12-years old costing $15.

Several venues invite visitors to see and learn more about the early days when New Braunfels was an early German settlement.

Mission San José in San Antonio is now one of three sites in Texas connected to the Underground Railroad, new research says.

Locals and tourists alike think of the River Walk when they think of downtown. Here’s how it all got started.

The Alamo, River Walk, San Fernando Cathedral. They are all iconic places that serve as icons of San Antonio and touchstones in the middle of a bustling city. But what is it like to live in the shadow of these tourist hot spots? In this episode of "Know My Neighborhood," we talk to those who live and work in the downtown neighborhood.

KSAT explores life as a local, from those who call downtown home.

Looking back at vintage photos of Fiesta from the early 1900s, it seems like that excitement has remained timeless.

The City of San Antonio’s Office of Historic Preservation is hosting community meetings to consider naming parts of Wurzbach Road as Silk Road.

Many Northern Hills and Valencia residents probably don't realize that this part of Northeast San Antonio has a connection to the Mission San Antonio de Valero, best known as the Alamo.

On Wednesday, a large crowd will gather at the Alamo downtown to pay tribute to the valor and sacrifices of those who died while defending the mission.

San Antonio’s city clerk wants to accelerate an ongoing plan to digitize and preserve the city’s archive, which she says could otherwise take decades.

Applicants for citizenship must get at least 6 of 10 questions right to pass.

Its 1950s and 60s vibe permeates Shearer Hills; it's one of the first developments during San Antonio's post-war building boom. Back then, the area was considered to be outside the city limits. Yet it was created during a time of racial segregation by developer H.J. Shearer, who had a racial covenant in the deed restrictions, a common practice at the time.

February 1996 may rank as one of the weirdest months weather-wise San Antonio's ever seen.

The Keyhole was more than a jazz nightclub; long before segregation was dissolved, the club paved the way for a sense of unity through music.

As a once-rural area with a history that's gone largely undocumented, the stories of this South Side community are best told by the generations of people who came to call it home.

The Hockley-Clay Cemetery is a site of a family revelation and a place where its descendants are working towards preservation.

A mystery has haunted the family of Guillermo Sanchez for generations.

The iconic mural of MLK was painted for people to mark history.

Meet one of the hundreds of groups marching together, the Bexar County Buffalo Soldiers Association. The group has been marching every year since 2000.

The original Travis Letter, one of the most famous letters in American History, will return to the Alamo for the first time in more than a decade.

The Historical Society of Helotes helped bring eight interpretive signs in front of historic buildings in Old Town Helotes.

An African American community at its heart, vestiges of its affluent past remain in Dignowity Hill. But over recent decades of demolition and rebuilding, one historian worries that the integrity of the neighborhood was also lost in the process.

A special project is underway at the corner of Guadalupe and South Colorado -- a museum that will hold some of the community’s history.

The day before on Nov. 21, Kennedy and First Lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis were in San Antonio for tour that lasted more than two hours.

Few, if any, planned communities can thank a religious order for jump-starting their developments, but 175 acres sold by the Cordi-Marian Missionary Sisters about 20 years ago, led to what is now the mega-subdivision Alamo Ranch.

Thousands of years of history are hard to sum up in one article on the internet, but here, the KSAT Explains team is breaking down some of the key conflicts that have transpired involving Israel, Gaza and its surrounding areas since Israel gained its independence in 1948.

A Google Doodle on Tuesday honored the legacy of Raoul A. Cortez — a staunch community advocate who revolutionized the Spanish-language media landscape in San Antonio.

The Alamo City officially got 11.26″ of rain that day. Mike Osterhage revisits his battle getting to the station in a soaked city.

The Battle of Medina, the bloodiest battle in Texas history that is often forgotten, is one step closer to being found, thanks to a podcaster and a group of veteran archeologists.

For Hispanic Heritage Month, we explore Mexico’s national sport that involves skillful roping, talented horsemanship and much more.

Prohibition outlawed the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol from 1919 to 1933 but that didn’t stop Texans from imbibing during those dry years.

The Alamo Sacristy is reopening on Wednesday following a multiple-year closure and it will include a new exhibit.

On September 14, UTSA will host a ceremonial quarter release to honor Idar’s legacy. The celebration will feature two events that are free to the public at UTSA’s downtown campus.

Only three boat ramps are expected to be open this weekend at Canyon Lake as the water levels dip even lower.

Here are the 10 biggest by the number of striking workers, according to Statista.

Newly discovered dinosaur tracks are visible once again at a Texas state park after two years of excessive drought.

Another boat ramp has closed at Canyon Lake as water levels continue to drop to historic lows.

The speech was a part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, an event organized to advocate civil and economic rights for African-Americans.

It’s official - Canyon Lake has just registered its lowest level in recorded history thanks to two brutally hot, record-breaking summers.

Comal Springs is one of the most prolific springs in Texas. It's only stopped flowing once before. Could it happen again?

A retired military couple, Keith and Robin Muschalek bought a dilapidated Wilson County home in 2015. They soon found out the property was a slave plantation, and are now trying to learn more about the enslaved people who lived and worked there. The other unanswered question revolves around their emancipation: Where did they go?

A boat estimated to be up to 500 years old was found after an explosion at a Ukranian dam in early June.

Put on by the City of San Antonio’s Office of Historic Preservation, the race utilizes a family-friendly scavenger hunt that explores San Antonio’s history and architecture.

An ornate tomb discovered in 2008 in Valencina, Spain was previously thought to belong to a high-status young man but new research shows it was actually the tomb of a woman.

“San Antonio plays this role in collecting enslaved freedom seekers and trying to return them to bondage or auctioning them off.”

An exhibit at the San Antonio Museum of Art is combining art, history and beer.

The plot is marked off by large limestone blocks within the historic New Braunfels Cemetery located just off the I-35 South service road.

Tuesday marks the anniversary of a significant discovery made in an ocean: Sept. 1 is the 35th anniversary of the remains of the Titanic being discovered in the Atlantic, an occasion that brought headlines around the world in 1985.

Although it's a federal holiday, there is still a lot more we need know about this historical event.

A Roman mausoleum has been unearthed in London and researchers are calling the discovery the “first of its kind.”

Imagine the pressure of having to accurately forecast the weather with countless lives and the fate of the free world at stake. That's exactly what a team of British and American meteorologists were tasked to do 79 years ago for the battle of D-Day.

Vintage photos give an insight in the history of Fredericksburg, which was founded by German immigrants on May 8, 1846.

Remains of a 19th-century quarantine hospital and cemetery were found submerged at Dry Tortugas National Park near the island of Garden Key, Florida in August 2022.

During the month of May, Catholics celebrate the crowning of Mary, where a crown is placed on Mary’s head with flowers.

What do you think of when you hear the words “Kentucky Derby?”

UIW history department professor gives us an understanding of the historical origins of Cinco de Mayo, and what it means not just Mexicans but all Americans.

A new center aims to link all five San Antonio missions and serve as a starting point for a curated experience that also encompasses Europe.

The community is invited to the Briscoe Western Art Museum for a day of free admission to the cultural arts experience this upcoming Sunday.

Has it really been about 100 years since arguably America’s first true sports icon was in his heyday?

The San Antonio Jewish community gathered Monday night to mark Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day that honors the six million jews who perished in the Holocaust, along with those that also survived.

Each year on April 15 marks another Titanic Remembrance Day, a time to reflect on the lives lost when the famed ship sank into the North Atlantic’s icy waters back in 1912.

Selena Quintanilla, her music, image and legacy all still live on today.

The first center to support the cultural restoration of the American Indian peoples of South Texas is getting a permanent location after nearly three decades of serving the community.

Sports are so powerful -- they transcend just the court, the mat or the field: They have the power to change lives.

Monday marked 187 years since those who fought and gave their lives for Texas Independence during the final battle of the Alamo.

History enthusiasts, families, and community members are invited to visit the Alamo to remember the renowned 1836 battle.

The Alamo on Thursday morning will hold a ceremony to commemorate the start of the 1836 siege.

The Witte Museum has hundreds of thousands of artifacts that you can explore their collection -- a collection filled with one of a kind items you won’t see anywhere else.

Whether you feel like you have a strong understanding of black history, or you're working to learn more, we've assembled 10 facts, or anecdotes, from history.com, to help you grow your knowledge base.

It all started with one week in 1926, when one organization chose the second week of February to promote the achievements by Black Americans and other people of African descent.

The Texas State Parks system has grown into a network of scenic destinations and landmarks that attract millions of visitors each year, but vintage photos show it had humble beginnings.

The play “Crystal City 1969″ at the Guadalupe Theater is the story of a historic student walkout that had a pivotal role in the struggle for Mexican-American civil rights.

National Michigan Day is Jan. 18.

The year 2023 marks a special anniversary for San Antonio and Spurs fans, specifically. Fifty years ago this year, the Spurs debuted in the Alamo City after the franchise moved here from Dallas, where they were the Chaparrals.

The Spurs played at the Alamodome from 1993-2002, and now are returning to celebrate the team's 50th anniversary.

Medina Lake has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent years due to low water levels but it hasn’t always been so dry.