Year: 1988
Type: book-review
Abstract: Alamo Images is a catalog to accompany an exhibition of artifacts, artworks, books, broadsides, ephemera, memorabilia, pamphlets, motion picture posters, and other items relating to the Alamo that were displayed at Southern Methodist University in 1985 and 1986. The stated purpose of the book and of the exhibition was to "help explain both the Alamo of historical fact and the Alamo of our imagination" (p. 17). The general intellectual assumption behind the book was that the myth of the Alamo had evolved into such a historical icon of patriotism that any attempt at sorting out truth from fanciful fiction would lead defenders of the myth to see fact finders as betrayers of Anglo-American values.
Source: Lincoln (University of Nebraska)
Author: Robert A. Calvert
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W196115264