Thorndike Press large print history fact and fiction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-621)

"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 ... owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten or 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 arising from Mexico's push to abolish slavery papered over. Forget the Alamo ... explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence, then shows us how the sausage of myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."--Cover

Bloody Texas --

The

Americans, their cotton, and who picked it --

The

American middle finger, extended --

"The

President Santana is friendly to Texas..." --

The

war dogs -- San Antonio --

The

worst kind of victory -- Countdown --

The

final days --

The

battle of the Alamo --

A

first draft of history -- Remember the Alamo? --

The

second battle of the Alamo --

The

White man's Alamo --

The

Alamo goes global --

The

Alamo supremacists --

The

rise of Alamo revisionism -- Revisionism unleashed --

The

Alamo under siege --

The

sisters of spite -- "This politically incorrect nonsense" --

The

Alamo reimagined --

The

problem with Phil -- Epilogue: Another battle of the Alamo -- Afterword: We are what we remember