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(Courtesy of Texas State Library and Archives Commission via AP) Lately we’ve been subjected to an attempt to revise the history of Texas and in particular that of the Battle of the Alamo. There’s even a forthcoming book urging Texans to forget the battle of March 6, 1836, and the men who died there. That’s literally the title of the book, and a mischievous play on the San Jacinto battle cry “Remember the Alamo!”
The revisionist history is much like, and in fact imitates, the discredited 1619 Project, by which New York Times staff writer and not-a-historian Nikole Hannah-Jones rewrote America as being founded on slavery, not the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
It’s an important debate, in that it stands to delegitimize the American government and self-image. Were we founded on a trajectory toward universal freedom, as the Declaration and Constitution say, or were we really founded on economic bondage and racism? If it’s the latter, July 4 loses all meaning and the American story is a lie. What were even the Greatest Generation heroes really fighting for? Ideals and liberty, or just some dirt and a piece of cloth they raised atop that little volcano in the middle of the Pacific?
So it goes in Texas, where woke history has taken over the Texas State Historical Association in the form of chief historian Dr. Walter Buenger, about whom I’ve written before , and this drive to get Texans to forget the Alamo and swap in a different one in which slavery was the cause of the war. Not independence from the tyrant Santa Anna and his centralist government, but slavery. Not even the ideals of the America that so many Texians of the time were born in and came to Texas from, but slavery. Economics, not beliefs or ideals, would have driven the Texas Revolution if this were true.
It is true, slavery existed in Texas at the time. Some but not all of the Texas leaders supported it. Not all Texans later supported secession from the United States, either, including Sam Houston, who won Texas’ independence […]
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