“Good name in man and women, dear my lord, / Is the immediate jewel of their souls.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” Texas is my rooting ground, so I can’t speak for other places, but in the Lone Star state history is a contact sport—sometimes devolving into a blood sport. Recently, the official Twitter account for the Alamo posted a picture of a young boy dressed in a Crockett costume. One respondent challenged the implication that the folks at the Alamo primarily (if not exclusively) champion the Anglo narrative of what happen there in late February and early March of 1836, to the exclusion of the Hispanic narrative. He decried the “indoctrination” of the coon-skinned clad lad and accused the Alamo historians of a “bias against a more balanced take on history and lack of openness to a more educated portrayal of History.”
Naming the Alamo Dead
Naming the Alamo Dead
Naming the Alamo Dead
“Good name in man and women, dear my lord, / Is the immediate jewel of their souls.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” Texas is my rooting ground, so I can’t speak for other places, but in the Lone Star state history is a contact sport—sometimes devolving into a blood sport. Recently, the official Twitter account for the Alamo posted a picture of a young boy dressed in a Crockett costume. One respondent challenged the implication that the folks at the Alamo primarily (if not exclusively) champion the Anglo narrative of what happen there in late February and early March of 1836, to the exclusion of the Hispanic narrative. He decried the “indoctrination” of the coon-skinned clad lad and accused the Alamo historians of a “bias against a more balanced take on history and lack of openness to a more educated portrayal of History.”