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Author : Herbert G. Uecker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971629400
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (294 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of the Alamo written by Herbert G. Uecker and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne A. Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology and History of Alamo Plaza written by Anne A. Fox and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Jack D. Eaton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book History and Archaeology of Mission San Antonio de Valero [the Alamo] written by Jack D. Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne A. Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Archaeology at the Alamodome: Historical, architectural, and oral history research written by Anne A. Fox and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raúl A. Ramos
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807888931
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Alamo written by Raúl A. Ramos and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Raul Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. He focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican independence. Ramos explores the factors that helped shape the ethnic identity of the Tejano population, including cross-cultural contacts between Bexarenos, indigenous groups, and Anglo-Americans, as they negotiated the contingencies and pressures on the frontier of competing empires.
Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1935149520
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Exodus from the Alamo written by Phillip Thomas Tucker and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning historian provides a provocative new analysis of the Battle of the Alamo—including new information on the fate of Davy Crockett. Contrary to legend, we now know that the defenders of the Alamo during the Texan Revolution died in a merciless predawn attack by Mexican soldiers. With extensive research into recently discovered Mexican accounts, as well as forensic evidence, historian Phillip Tucker sheds new light on the famous battle, contending that the traditional myth is even more off-base than we thought. In a startling revelation, Tucker uncovers that the primary fights took place on the plain outside the fort. While a number of the Alamo’s defenders hung on inside, most died while attempting to escape. Capt. Dickinson, with cannon atop the chapel, fired repeatedly into the throng of enemy cavalry until he was finally cut down. The controversy surrounding Davy Crockett still remains, though the recently authenticated diary of the Mexican Col. José Enrique de la Peña offers evidence that he surrendered. Notoriously, Mexican Pres. Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna burned the bodies of the Texans who had dared stand against him. As this book proves in thorough detail, the funeral pyres were well outside the fort—that is, where the two separate groups of escapees fell on the plain, rather than in the Alamo itself.
Author : Todd Hansen
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811700603
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Alamo Reader written by Todd Hansen and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If everyone was killed inside the Alamo, how do we know what happened? This surprisingly simple question was the genesis for Todd Hansen's compendium of source material on the subject, "The Alamo Reader". Utilising obscure and rare sources along with key documents never before published, Hansen carefully balances the accounts against one another, culminating in the definitive resource for Alamo history.
Author : Anne A. Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Archaeology at the Alamodome: Excavations and artifact distribution analysis written by Anne A. Fox and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David A. Gregory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781555675707
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (757 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Alamo Lake, Arizona written by David A. Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David A. Gregory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781879442115
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (421 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Alamo Lake, Arizona written by David A. Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Holly Beachley Brear
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292763239
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Inherit the Alamo written by Holly Beachley Brear and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the multiple histories and mythologies of San Antonio’s famous Spanish mission and Texas Revolution battle site. The Alamo Mission still evokes tremendous feeling among many Americans, and especially among Texans. For Anglo Texans, it is the “Cradle of Texas Liberty” and a symbol of Western expansion. But Hispanic Texans increasingly view the Alamo as a stolen symbol, its origin as a Spanish mission forgotten, its famous defeat used to rob Hispanics of their place in Texas history. In this study, Holly Beachley Brear explores what the Alamo means to the numerous groups that lay claim to its heritage. Brear shows how—and why—Alamo myths often diverge from the historical facts. She decodes the agendas of various groups, including the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (who maintain the site), the Order of the Alamo, the Texas Cavaliers, and LULAC. She also probes attempts by individuals and groups to rewrite the Alamo myth to include more positive roles for themselves. With new perspectives on all the sacred icons of the Alamo and the Fiesta that celebrates (one version of) its history each year, Inherit the Alamo challenges stereotypes and offers a new understanding of the Alamo’s ongoing role in shaping Texas and American history and mythology.
Author : Richard R. Flores
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292781962
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Remembering the Alamo written by Richard R. Flores and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : J. R. Edmondson
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1556226780
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Alamo Story written by J. R. Edmondson and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2000-02-09 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author captures the entire Alamo history in a cohesive and slowing narrative that brings the people and the drama to life with a sense of vivid reality and detailed based on years of research.
Author : Bryan Burrough
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 198488011X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Forget the Alamo written by Bryan Burrough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : James E. Crisp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199755809
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Sleuthing the Alamo written by James E. Crisp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths often obscured by both racism and "political correctness," as history has been hijacked by combatants in the culture wars of the past two centuries. Beginning with a very personal prologue recalling both the pride and the prejudices that he encountered in the Texas of his youth, Crisp traces his path to the discovery of documents distorted, censored, and ignored--documents which reveal long-silenced voices from the Texan past. In each of four chapters focusing on specific documentary "finds," Crisp uncovers the clues that led to these archival discoveries. Along the way, the cast of characters expands to include: a prominent historian who tried to walk away from his first book; an unlikely teenaged "speechwriter" for General Sam Houston; three eyewitnesses to the death of Davy Crockett at the Alamo; a desperate inmate of Mexico City's Inquisition Prison, whose scribbled memoir of the war in Texas is now listed in the Guiness Book of World Records; and the stealthy slasher of the most famous historical painting in Texas. In his afterword, Crisp explores the evidence behind the mythic "Yellow Rose of Texas" and examines some of the powerful forces at work in silencing the very voices from the past that we most need to hear today. Here then is an engaging first-person account of historical detective work, illuminating the methods of the serious historian--and the motives of those who prefer glorious myth to unflattering truth.
Author : Mark Lemon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Illustrated Alamo, 1836 written by Mark Lemon and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader is taken through the entire Alamo compound, inside and out, and shown areas never before depicted ... Through extremely realistic photo-illustrations, as well as dramatic original artwork with explanatory text, the author breathes new life into the 1836 Alamo -- and makes it real.
Author : Jim Steely
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (777 download)
Download or read book Alamo written by Jim Steely and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
