ALAMO - Does one know why the Star-Spangled Banner is sung at professional baseball games? Who knows how Union Commander Philip Sheridan observations in the Rio Grande Valley at Fort Duncan in Laredo, Texas in 1852-53 would be useful later during the Civil War? And are people aware of the resurgence of the Karankawa Indians thought to be extinct in Texas since the 1850s? Those were a few of the topics covered during the South Texas Historical Association (STHA) symposium hosted by the City of Alamo Museum Nov. 1-2, which became international in drawing professors, historians, scholars from the region including ...