The new book
Forget the Alamo is causing a stir in Texas. Lavished with friendly coverage in media nationwide and in particular at the
San Antonio Express-News, the book makes sensational claims and also covers ground that’s been known to historians and Alamo scholars for decades as if it’s a grand new revelation. It wasn’t written by historians or peer-reviewed before publication. But that hasn’t mattered to its public relations and marketing. The
San Antonio Express-News uses the book’s claims to bash the Alamo and its defenders nearly every day. This prompted me to ask whether the Alamo City hates the Alamo last week.
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The leadership at the Illinois State Military Museum is tiptoeing away from its most famous artifact.
Yes, we are talking about the ultimate war booty: Mexican Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s artificial leg.
During the Mexican-American War, a regiment of Illinois soldiers captured the cork appendage and brought it back to the Prairie State. And for 173 years, it’s been on display in Illinois.
Unlike the stovepipe hat obtained by another Springfield museum, there has never been a question of whether a national leader wore it or its path to coming into the state’s hands.
Here’s the story of how it ended up moving 1,700 miles north to the Prairie State:
Jazz ShawPosted at 1:14 pm on January 18, 2021
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What the heck is going on at the Texas State Historical Association these days? I understand that this is probably a story that sounds like it’s coming from deep in the weeds, at least if you’re not from Texas, but it’s certainly curious. The “chief historian” of the TSHA recently wrote an opinion piece for USA Today in which he made some rather outrageous (and dubious) claims about the Battle of the Alamo. Our colleague Bryan Preston at PJ Media does a deep dive into the claims made by Walter Buenger, pointing out why his revisionist history is both steeped in wokeness and historically inaccurate. Buenger describes the battle as “insignificant” in historic and tactical terms, amounting to little more than an excuse to promote racism and extoll the virtues of “whiteness.” Yeah…