Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas

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Contents Foreword W. Fitzhugh Brundage xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction A Study of History, Memory, and Collective Memory in Texas Gregg Cantrell and Elizabeth Hayes Turner 1 Chapter 1 Early Historians and the Shaping of Texas Memory Laura Lyons McLemore 15 Chapter 2 The Bones of Stephen F. Austin: History and Memory in Progressive-Era Texas Gregg Cantrell 39 Chapter 3 Memory, Truth, and Pain: Myth and Censorship in the Celebration of Texas History James E. Crisp 75 Chapter 4 “Memories Are Short but Monuments Lengthen Remembrances”: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Power of Civil War Memory Kelly McMichael 95 Chapter 5 Memory and the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in Texas Walter L. Buenger 119 Chapter 6 Juneteenth: Emancipation and Memory Elizabeth Hayes Turner 143 Chapter 7 Constructing Tejano Memory Andrés Tijerina 176 Chapter 8 Generation versus Generation: African Americans in Texas Remember the Civil Rights Movement Yvonne Davis Frear 203 Chapter 9 Lyndon, We Hardly Remember Ye: LBJ in the Memory of Modern Texas Ricky Floyd Dobbs 220 Chapter 10 Mission Statement: The Alamo and the Fallacy of Historical Accuracy in Epic Filmmaking Don Graham 242 Chapter 11 History and Collective Memory in Texas: The Entangled Stories of the Lone Star State Randolph B. Campbell 270 Contributors 283 Index 289 ...