Post by ~ / % ? * on Jun 9, 2021 23:38:07 GMT
Genesis' Phil Collins has the largest collection of Alamo, Davy Crockett memorabilia he wants to donate it to a special Alamo Museum to be specially built for its display.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/authenticity-of-certain-alamo-artifacts-donated-by-phil-collins-come-facing-scrutiny/ar-AAKdMzb
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/we-ve-been-telling-the-alamo-story-wrong-for-nearly-200-years-now-it-s-time-to-correct-the-record/ar-AAKSLsZ?ocid=msedgntp
Start with the Alamo. So much of what we “know” about the battle is provably wrong. William Travis never drew any line in the sand; this was a tale concocted by an amateur historian in the late 1800s. There is no evidence Davy Crockett went down fighting, as John Wayne famously did in his 1960 movie The Alamo, a font of misinformation; there is ample testimony from Mexican soldiers that Crockett surrendered and was executed. The battle, in fact, should never have been fought. Travis ignored multiple warnings of Santa Anna’s approach and was simply trapped in the Alamo when the Mexican army arrived.
And Mexican-American history isn’t the only piece of the past that’s distorted by the Alamo myth. Academic researchers long tiptoed around the issue of slavery in Texas; active research didn’t really begin until the 1980s. Since then, scholars such as Randolph Campbell and Andrew Torget have demonstrated that slavery was the single issue that regularly drove a wedge between early Mexican governments—dedicated abolitionists all—and their American colonists in Texas, many of whom had immigrated to farm cotton, the province’s only cash crop at the time.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/authenticity-of-certain-alamo-artifacts-donated-by-phil-collins-come-facing-scrutiny/ar-AAKdMzb
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/we-ve-been-telling-the-alamo-story-wrong-for-nearly-200-years-now-it-s-time-to-correct-the-record/ar-AAKSLsZ?ocid=msedgntp
Start with the Alamo. So much of what we “know” about the battle is provably wrong. William Travis never drew any line in the sand; this was a tale concocted by an amateur historian in the late 1800s. There is no evidence Davy Crockett went down fighting, as John Wayne famously did in his 1960 movie The Alamo, a font of misinformation; there is ample testimony from Mexican soldiers that Crockett surrendered and was executed. The battle, in fact, should never have been fought. Travis ignored multiple warnings of Santa Anna’s approach and was simply trapped in the Alamo when the Mexican army arrived.
And Mexican-American history isn’t the only piece of the past that’s distorted by the Alamo myth. Academic researchers long tiptoed around the issue of slavery in Texas; active research didn’t really begin until the 1980s. Since then, scholars such as Randolph Campbell and Andrew Torget have demonstrated that slavery was the single issue that regularly drove a wedge between early Mexican governments—dedicated abolitionists all—and their American colonists in Texas, many of whom had immigrated to farm cotton, the province’s only cash crop at the time.
