Texas Republicans rush to guard the Alamo from the facts
With more than 300 RSVPs, the event hosted by the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin was shaping up to be the highlight of our virtual book tour for Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth. But about four hours before showtime last Thursday, my co-authors, Bryan Burrough and Chris Tomlinson, and I received an email from our publisher. The Bullock had backed out, citing increased pressure on social media. Apparently, the state history museum was no place to discuss state history.
This isnt how things are supposed to work, even in Texas, but the truth turned out to be even worse. The state history museum wasnt bowing to social media pressure but to political pressure from the states Republican lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, who claimed credit for the kill the next day.
As a member of the Preservation Board, I told staff to cancel this event as soon as I found out about it, tweeted Patrick, adding, This fact-free rewriting of TX history has no place @BullockMuseum.
Minor umbrage compels me to defend the book as well as the museum, which currently is hosting a Jim Crow exhibition. As The Post noted in its review of our book, we challenge the traditional view of the Alamo saga, one popularized by Disney and John Wayne and cemented by politicians in the Texas school curriculum.
The Heroic Anglo Narrative is that in 1836, about 200 Texians (as White settlers were known, to distinguish them from Tejanos) fought a doomed battle at a Spanish mission in San Antonio against thousands of Mexican troops, buying Gen. Sam Houston enough time to defeat tyranny in the form of Mexican ruler Santa Anna and win freedom for Texas. The myth leaves much out, most notably that Texians opposed Mexican laws that would free the enslaved workers they needed to farm cotton.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/05/texas-republicans-rush-guard-alamo-facts/
Pas-de-Calais
(9,909 posts)Ample time to leave the area. Guy surnamed Travis decided he knew better. Each request was answered with a cannon shot back.
Requested reenforcements to be on the safe side. Houston decided not to send them, but began to bugout his own position.
Santa Anna overwhelmed the fortress. Bowie did not die fighting, but of a high fever days long.
The Alamo was a penmanship creation done decades after the fact
Reading said book now.
Mexico said NO to slaves
Shipwack
(2,171 posts)The only reason I know about this book is from reading about it on Twitter a couple of days ago. I went to a bookstore today and found out it was sold out. I'll be going back when the new shipment comes in.
Paladin
(28,272 posts)Trust me on that one.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,808 posts)people to enlist; like 9/11.