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Heather Cox Richardson on rewriting history

John Fea   |  July 27, 2021

Earlier this month I wrote a long post on complexity and revisionism in the doing of history. Over at Milwaukee Independent, historian Heather Cox Richardson discusses the importance of rewriting history. She writes in the context of a recent revisionist history of the Alamo that we have also covered at this blog. Here is a taste: Here is why this rewriting of our history matters. Historians study how societies change. In order to do that, we examine sources … [Read more...] about Heather Cox Richardson on rewriting history

A new Battle of the Alamo?

John Fea   |  July 3, 2021

Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford recently published Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth. It has a provocative title and an even more provocative argument: 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 … [Read more...] about A new Battle of the Alamo?

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