Gene Preuss and Scott Sosebee have started a new online podcast called Talking Texas History. It is a weekly series of interviews with people involved in the Texas historical community. They invited me to be the first person they interviewed for this podcast on August 16, 2022. Click Here for this Podcast. (Audio only. No video).
This book is a remarkable, fresh examination of the Texas Revolution and the Republic by a long-established historian who is an expert on the topic.
The author considers the role everyday people played in the Revolution and the impact it had on them, including Tejanos, those of African heritage, Native Americans, and Anglos. The book adroitly examines the complicated interrelationships between these groups within the context of the Revolution and Republic. The narrative highlights how historical events and public policy resulted from these relationships. I suppose some people who just want to read yet another book about the Alamo, which is little mentioned, may not appreciate this important volume. They instead might be moved to attack it by using provocative, condemnatory buzzwords such as "woke" and "presentist" since it does not fit the mold of previous books on the topic. It is anything but that.
This volume presents a fundamental historical reorientation in its analysis, in the process of so doing making explicit entirely new frames of reference for considering the Texas Revolution and the Republic. It constitutes a singular landmark in the evolving historiographical interpretation of Texas History.
