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Remembering The Alamo

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Author : Richard R. Flores
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01

Remembering The Alamo written by Richard R. Flores and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with History categories.

This study examines the American mythology surrounding the Alamo and its influence on cultural identity, historical memory, and ethnic relations. Over nearly two centuries, the Mexican victory over an outnumbered band of Alamo defenders has been transformed into an American victory for the love of liberty. Through a metamorphosis of memory and mythology, the Alamo became a master symbol in Texan and American culture. In Remembering the Alamo, Richard Flores examines how this transformation helped to shape social, economic, and political relations between Anglo and Mexican Texans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Flores looks at how heritage society members and political leaders sought to define the Alamo, and how their attempts reflected struggles within Texas society over the place and status of Anglos and Mexicans. Flores also explores how Alamo movies and the transformation of Davy Crockett into a hero-martyr have advanced deeply racialized, ambiguous, and even invented understandings of the past.

Forget The Alamo

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Author : Bryan Burrough
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2021-06-08

Forget The Alamo written by Bryan Burrough and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with History categories.

A New York Times bestseller! “Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review "Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal “Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston Chronicle Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head. Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively shows, owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten and twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos--Texans of Mexican origin, who fought alongside the Anglo rebels--scrubbed from the record, and the origin of the conflict over Mexico's push to abolish slavery papered over. Forget the Alamo provocatively explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence, then shows how the sausage of myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As uncomfortable as it may be to hear for some, celebrating the Alamo has long had an echo of celebrating whiteness. In the past forty-some years, waves of revisionists have come at this topic, and at times have made real progress toward a more nuanced and inclusive story that doesn't alienate anyone. But we are not living in one of those times; the fight over the Alamo's meaning has become more pitched than ever in the past few years, even violent, as Texas's future begins to look more and more different from its past. It's the perfect time for a wise and generous-spirited book that shines the bright light of the truth into a place that's gotten awfully dark.

Remember The Alamo

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Author : Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888

Remember The Alamo written by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Texas categories.

Remembering The Alamo

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Author : Richard R. Flores
language : en
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
Release Date : 2010-01-01

Remembering The Alamo written by Richard R. Flores and has been published by Univ of TX + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with History categories.

This study examines the American mythology surrounding the Alamo and its influence on cultural identity, historical memory, and ethnic relations. Over nearly two centuries, the Mexican victory over an outnumbered band of Alamo defenders has been transformed into an American victory for the love of liberty. Through a metamorphosis of memory and mythology, the Alamo became a master symbol in Texan and American culture. In Remembering the Alamo, Richard Flores examines how this transformation helped to shape social, economic, and political relations between Anglo and Mexican Texans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Flores looks at how heritage society members and political leaders sought to define the Alamo, and how their attempts reflected struggles within Texas society over the place and status of Anglos and Mexicans. Flores also explores how Alamo movies and the transformation of Davy Crockett into a hero-martyr have advanced deeply racialized, ambiguous, and even invented understandings of the past.

Remembering The Alamo

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Author : Gary L. Foreman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983

Remembering The Alamo written by Gary L. Foreman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) categories.

Standoff

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Author : Lisa Trumbauer
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2009

Standoff written by Lisa Trumbauer and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

In 1836, 15 year-old Cal and his mother ride across the Texas countryside. Suddenly, they spot thousands of Mexican soldiers approaching on the horizon. Cal knows they mean trouble, so he steers the wagon to the safest place around, the Alamo! Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and other soldiers are there, waiting for a fight. But can their small group hold off an entire army? It'll be a battle they'll never forget.

Remember The Alamo

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Author : Amelia E. Barr
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-11-19

Remember The Alamo written by Amelia E. Barr and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-19 with Fiction categories.

"For many years there had never been any doubt in the mind of Robert Worth as to the ultimate destiny of Texas, though he was by no means an adventurer, and had come into the beautiful land by a sequence of natural and business-like events. He was born in New York. In that city he studied his profession, and in eighteen hundred and three began its practice in an office near Contoit's Hotel, opposite the City Park. One day he was summoned there to attend a sick man. His patient proved to be Don Jaime Urrea, and the rich Mexican grandee conceived a warm friendship for the young physician..."

Landmarks Of American History

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Landmarks Of American History written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) categories.

I Remember The Alamo

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Author : D. Anne Love
language : en
Publisher: Yearling
Release Date : 2001-05-08

I Remember The Alamo written by D. Anne Love and has been published by Yearling this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-08 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

Eleven-year-old Jessie resents her father's decision to move his family to San Antonio where they are caught up in the revolution of 1835-1836 including the siege of the Alamo.

Remembering The Alamo

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Author : Morris Emory Franklin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998

Remembering The Alamo written by Morris Emory Franklin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) categories.