To tell a fuller Texas story, historians had to break up. It wasn't an amicable divorce.
If there’s one overarching historical truth, it’s that history is divisive. It’s recorded by victors who implant it in the national consciousness. Evidence be damned. Textbooks recount those stories without question. The telling of that story is hard to change. As such, history is most often the truth according to white males who seek to reflect the heroic acts and God -inspired ambitions of their Anglo ancestors.
Listen to Elaine’s 23 podcasts of 'Nosotros' on YouTube Heritage associations wrap themselves around those stories, too, perpetuating them. Together, they make sure slavery, genocide and the taking of lands are excluded from their narrative. That is the history of the telling of Texas history. It pits traditional Texas historians, their non-academic advocates and the status quo vs. the newest scholarly breed of Texas historians who seek to expand, enhance and correct the story of Texas.
Cinco de Mayo’s ties to San Antonio de Bexar On the other is the newly formed Alliance for Texas History. J.P. Bryan, the P.T. Barnum of this story and the TSHA’s executive director, is accused of aggressive behavior and maligning historians of color. At an El Paso conference, he allegedly referred to two women historians with Ph.D.s in history as “little girls,” a local professor of history told me. Bryan disagreed with them, thus questioned their academic credentials.
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