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Lone Star Pasts - Memory and History in Texas (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Lone Star Pasts - Memory and History in Texas (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Series: Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest
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The past has long fingers into the present, but they are not just
the fingers of fact. How we remember the past is at least as
important as the objective facts of that past. The memories used by
a people to define itself have to be understood not just as
(sometimes) bad history but also as historical artifacts
themselves. Texas' pasts are examined in this groundbreaking
volume, featuring chapters by a wide range of scholars. Current
historians' views of Texas in the nineteenth century and especially
the significance of the Alamo as a site of memory in architecture,
art, and film across the years comprise a major element of this
volume. Other nineteenth-century historical events are also
examined through their memorializations in the twentieth century:
the construction of Civil War monuments by the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, public and private Juneteenth celebrations, and
the Tejano memorial on the Capitol grounds commemorating the
history of Mexicans in Texas. Twentieth-century chapters include
collective memories and meaning attached to the Ku Klux Klan, the
significance of the civil rights movement in the eyes of different
generations of Texans, and the lasting (or fading) Texan memories
of Lyndon Baines Johnson. The volume editors offer these studies as
a model of how Texas historians can begin to incorporate memory
into their work, as historians of other regions have done. In the
process, they offer a more nuanced and even a more applied version
of Texas history than many of us learned in school. GREGG CANTRELL
is the Erma and Ralph Lowe Professor of History at Texas Christian
University and the author of Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of
Texas. ELIZABETH HAYES TURNER, an associate professor at the
University of North Texas, is the author of Women, Culture, and
Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920.
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