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May 3, 2022 · Unsettled Land shows Texas as it was, not as it has appeared on the set of The Alamo. Haynes' Texas was a multiracial society, where free African Americans became prominent merchants, and where white land speculators staged revolts with Indigenous allies.
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- Sam W. Haynes
May 3, 2022 · In Unsettled Land, historian Sam Haynes reveals the reality beneath this powerful creation myth. He shows how the lives of ordinary people—white Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans, and those of African descent—were upended by extraordinary events over twenty-five years.
- Sam W. Haynes
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May 3, 2022 · In Unsettled Land, historian Sam Haynes reveals the reality beneath this powerful creation myth. He shows how the lives of ordinary people—white Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans, and those of African descent—were upended by extraordinary events over twenty-five years.
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- Sam W. Haynes
Nov 1, 2022 · Haynes delivers a powerful counternarrative to the traditional foundational myths about the defense of the Alamo and the origins of Texas: the shopworn narrative of a heroic American resistance overcoming Mexican despotism.
Jul 21, 2022 · Unsettled Land by Sam W. Haynes takes a gleeful and enjoyable mythbusting to these long held, and enduring, myths. Unsettled Land begins with the brief history of Villa de Dolores, a village along the Rio Grande that serves as a microcosm of Texas.
May 3, 2022 · Haynes, director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington, opens with a party of German freethinkers recruited by an Englishman in New York with the promise of free land—but not forewarned that the Comanches had designs on that land themselves.
Sep 15, 2022 · There have been no fewer than eight Hollywood movies about the Battle of the Alamo, the first in 1915, and the legend of rugged Anglo-American individualists settling an untamed land in the face of Mexican aggression is now an essential part of the Lone Star state’s DNA.
