Texas State Historical Assn’s Chief Historian
Says the Alamo was an ‘Insignificant’ Battle
and Represents ‘Whiteness.’ What Do Texas History
Experts and the Facts Say?
Posted By: Dreadnought, 1/17/2021 5:16:53 PM
This past week, Texas State Historical Association chief historian Walter Buenger made two controversial assertions regarding the Alamo in a story published by USA Today. Although the battle has become a symbol of patriotism and freedom for many Texans and Americans, like the Confederate monuments erected after the Civil War, the myth of the Alamo has been used to “commemorate whiteness,” according to Walter L Buenger, Texas State Historical Association chair. The battle itself was relatively insignificant tactically speaking, but it gained recognition decades later in the 1890s as backlash to African Americans gaining more political power and Mexican immigration increasing
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