Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth – Atencion San Miguel | English Version
By Clare Howell Old Soviet joke: Q. What’s a historian? A. Someone who can predict the past. As a native San Antonian, not yet into my wits in the mid-1950s, watching Fess Parker (TV’s Davy Crockett, roaming the forests of Kentucky doing good deeds), I was all in on the myth of the Alamo—the daring, […]
