Book Description
Describes what happened during the siege at the Alamo in 1836, as experienced by young Enrique Esparza and his family, and includes a script and instructions for staging a theatrical performance of this adventure.
Author : Susan Taylor Brown
Publisher : LernerClassroom
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0761339426
Describes what happened during the siege at the Alamo in 1836, as experienced by young Enrique Esparza and his family, and includes a script and instructions for staging a theatrical performance of this adventure.
Author : Timothy M. Matovina
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292751866
As Mexican soldiers fought the mostly Anglo-American colonists and volunteers at the Alamo in 1836, San Antonio's Tejano population was caught in the crossfire, both literally and symbolically. Though their origins were in Mexico, the Tejanos had put down lasting roots in Texas and did not automatically identify with the Mexican cause. Indeed, as the accounts in this new collection demonstrate, their strongest allegiance was to their fellow San Antonians, with whom they shared a common history and a common plight as war raged in their hometown. Timothy M. Matovina here gathers all known Tejano accounts of the Battle of the Alamo. These accounts consist of first reports of the battle, including Juan N. Seguín's funeral oration at the interment ceremony of the Alamo defenders, conversations with local Tejanos, unpublished petitions and depositions, and published accounts from newspapers and other sources. This communal response to the legendary battle deepens our understanding of the formation of Mexican American consciousness and identity.
Author : Margaret Cousins
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780931722264
Retelling of a classic story of the siege of the Alamo told from the unique viewpoint of a 12-year old boy.
Author : Ben H. Procter
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0876112688
The dramatic story of one of the most famous events in Texas history is told by Ben H. Procter. Procter describes in colorful detail the background, character, and motives of the prominent figures at the Alamo—Bowie, Travis, and Crockett—and the course and outcome of the battle itself. This concise and engaging account of a turning point in Texas history will appeal to students, teachers, historians, and general readers alike.
Author : Cathy Moore
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0761366733
In the 1840s, runaway slaves faced many dangers. They were often caught and sometimes killed. Ellen Craft and her husband William knew the risks. And they decided to take a chance. Ellen and William had a daring plan to escape from slavery. Posing as a white man, Ellen hoped to travel north as William's slave master. But the two had many states to cross. Would they reach freedom? Or would someone see through Ellen's disguise? In the back of this book, you'll find a script and instructions for putting on a reader's theater performance of this adventure. Download additional copies of the script plus sound effects, background images, and more ideas that will help make your reader's theater performance a success through Lerner eSource.
Author : Phillip Hoose
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2001-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374382522
THE STORY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE PLAYED IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
Author : Shelley Tanaka
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 2010-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781897330371
A new nonfiction series that contains dramatic narrative, informative sidebars, and vivid paintings begins with the story of the 1836 battle of the Alamo in Texas. Full color.
Author : Dan Kilgore
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1603441948
Just over thirty years ago, Dan Kilgore ignited a controversy with his presidential address to the Texas State Historical Association and its subsequent publication in book form, How Did Davy Die? After the 1975 release of the first-ever English translation of eyewitness accounts by Mexican army officer José Enrique de la Peña, Kilgore had the audacity to state publicly that historical sources suggested Davy Crockett did not die on the ramparts of the Alamo, swinging the shattered remains of his rifle "Old Betsy." Rather, Kilgore asserted, Mexican forces took Crockett captive and then executed him on Santa Anna's order. Soon after the publication of How Did Davy Die?, the London Daily Mail associated Kilgore with "the murder of a myth;" he became the subject of articles in Texas Monthly and the Wall Street Journal; and some who considered his historical argument an affront to a treasured American icon delivered personal insults and threats of violence. Now, in this enlarged, commemorative edition, James E. Crisp, a professional historian and a participant in the debates over the De la Peña diary, reconsiders the heated disputation surrounding How Did Davy Die? and poses the intriguing follow-up question, “. . . And Why Do We Care So Much?” Crisp reviews the origins and subsequent impact of Kilgore’s book, both on the historical hullabaloo and on the author. Along the way, he provides fascinating insights into methods of historical inquiry and the use—or non-use—of original source materials when seeking the truth of events that happened in past centuries. He further examines two aspects of the debate that Kilgore shied away from: the place and function of myth in culture, and the racial overtones of some of the responses to Kilgore’s work.
Author : Stephen L. Hardin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0292792522
Hardly were the last shots fired at the Alamo before the Texas Revolution entered the realm of myth and controversy. French visitor Frederic Gaillardet called it a "Texian Iliad" in 1839, while American Theodore Sedgwick pronounced the war and its resulting legends "almost burlesque." In this highly readable history, Stephen L. Hardin discovers more than a little truth in both of those views. Drawing on many original Texan and Mexican sources and on-site inspections of almost every battlefield, he offers the first complete military history of the Revolution. From the war's opening in the "Come and Take It" incident at Gonzales to the capture of General Santa Anna at San Jacinto, Hardin clearly describes the strategy and tactics of each side. His research yields new knowledge of the actions of famous Texan and Mexican leaders, as well as fascinating descriptions of battle and camp life from the ordinary soldier's point of view. This award-winning book belongs on the bookshelf of everyone interested in Texas or military history.
Author : Ron J. Jackson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806149604
"Among the fifty or so Texan survivors of the siege of the Alamo was Joe, the personal slave of Lt. Col. William Barret Travis. First interrogated by Santa Anna, Joe was allowed to depart (along with Susana Dickinson) and eventually made his way to the seat of the revolutionary government at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Joe was then returned to the Travis estate in Columbia, Texas, near the coast. He escaped in 1837 and was never captured. Ron J. Jackson and Lee White have meticulously researched plantation ledgers, journals, memoirs, slave narratives, ship logs, newspapers, personal letters, and court documents to fill in the gaps of Joe's story. "Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend" provides not only a recovered biography of an individual lost to history, but also offers a fresh vantage point from which to view the events of the Texas Revolution"--