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"Everybody’S Alamo": Revolution In The Revolution, Texas Style, Linda K. Salvucci
"Everybody’S Alamo": Revolution In The Revolution, Texas Style, Linda K. Salvucci
History Faculty Research
In the fall of 2000, I did what once seemed unthinkable: I willingly began to teach a first-year seminar, "Remembering the Alamo: Myth, Memory and History." Few veteran instructors of the U.S. history survey might question my desire to take a break from that always challenging responsibility. But why would a female "Yankee" whose research involves Atlantic trades and empires settle upon such an unlikely topic? To some extent, the answer is personal, and represents my slow coming to terms with the universal symbol of the city I have called home since 1985. Yet my intensified commitment to remembering the …
Did Nafta Rewrite History? Recent Mexican Views Of The United States Past, Linda K. Salvucci
Did Nafta Rewrite History? Recent Mexican Views Of The United States Past, Linda K. Salvucci
History Faculty Research
As a young graduate student residing in Mexico City in the mid-1970s, I often wondered what it would be like to teach United States history to university students there. The challenges appeared formidable. Not only did it seem that anti-Yankeeism was an integral component of Mexican intellectual identity in the waning years of Luis Echeverría's presidency, but the major bookstores carried few assignable (or affordable) titles. A handsomely produced, hardback Spanish version of Samuel E. Morison and Henry S. Commager's The Growth of the American Republic, first published in English in 1930, was the only textbook consistently in stock, …