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Terry Mann

Well played Mam. You checked the little lefty at every turn.

Jon Griffin

Great presentation and right on point, as always. Thank you for fighting to keep our Texas heritage true and not what the pseudo historians want it to be. They just don’t get it.

Texas History Trust

Thank you, Jon. Some of the DO get it and are taught by their advisors to despise it. Activist historians suck.

J.T. Ellis

I have never watched Cynical Historian, and don't plan to. I have visited many historical sites that have meaning to me for various reasons. I am not a Texan, but I love the history of that great state. I recall a statement made by a college professor which I'll paraphrase, the only fact known fact about the Alamo is that it happened. That caused me to read A Time To Stand by Walter Lord, the only available book I could find on the subject at the time. Almost thirty years later I was able to visit the Alamo in 1994. I enjoyed that visit and had no problem removing my hat to enter the shrine. I did not see anything at that time to support any claim of racism or that slavery was ignored. This video inspires me to visit again should I have the opportunity. There is a lot more known about the Alamo than that professor claimed.

K Wills

Your review of the Cynical Historian video is excellent. Trying to include all the elements of the history of a place is difficult. Especially where the Alamo is concerned. Some extra points. The importance of the Alamo was neglected by the Cynical Historian. The Alamo delayed Santa Anna by 13 days. Without the delay, Sam Houston would not have been able to gather enough men to defeat Santa Anna. Of course, Sam Houston's military tactics played into the defeat of Santa Anna.

Slavery was a part of the reason Santa Anna came to Texas. It may not have been the reason for San Antonio, but East Texas, as you say, did have slavery. Mexico had outlawed slavery. Santa Anna needed to come to Texas to enforce Mexican law. A few of the prominent fighters at the Alamo were slave traders and owners. Not that really had any significance in the total scheme of the reason for the defense of the Alamo.

Although many would like to make everything about race and or slavery, Santa Anna's main reason for coming to Texas was monetary. Mexico had made the mistake of inviting settlers of foreign descent to Texas. Texas became settled by a large number of US citizens. They did not respect Mexican authority. They, therefore, did not pay taxes. Santa Anna needed to enforce the payment of taxes.

As you have stated, without knowing the details, the true story can not be told. Today, those who do not take the time to study history try to interpret the past in the mores of today. Doing so undermines the character of those who fought for our country. The issue of reinterpreting history in today's mores is not limited to the Alamo but all history.

Dennis Thomas

many years ago, my wife and i were on a train from Dover back to London. It turned out, we were on a "local" train and two young men helped us get onto the express back to London. All they wanted to talk about was TEXAS! They wanted to visit the Alamo!

Steve Schuller

Excellent, thorough and fair-minded presentation of the facts, as usual. Your videos are always a delight to view.

Bill Cody

My first visit to your site and thank you for setting the record straight about the Alamo, which I have visited many time. I am a native Tennessean as were many of it's defenders. I had to subscribe to your channel.

herman james

Mine also but the Okies can't talk about to Texas history and you're an Okie

Enrique Zavala

A clear thinking regarding history interpretation , congratulations. Enrique Zavala m.d.

Charles Cantu

Thank you for setting the real history of our Texas correctly. Member of SRT, ancestor fought at the Siege of Bexar and San Jacinto. Survived both battles came back to the Alamo to help Juan Sequin gather the ashes for San Fernando Church. Our ancestor married into the Flores family . Where Floresville gets it's name. Thank you.

William Austin

Wow! So very well done. Nice to see and hear a true historian. Having studied the Alamo for over half a century, I found your History to be right on. God and Texas.

Al Woodel

I went through the Alamo as a tourist. The tourist guide was extremely racist against America and whites. He made many false statements. His theme was Mexico was the modern name of the Aztec whom he described as noble. He stated Texas had always been Mexican until stolen by white ranchers.

Elijah Hodges

I am 71. I visited in the 1970's. My last visit was 2011. At the time the entire display was in and around the church. Outside was a gentle soul who gave us the whole story. He pointed out the actual size and positions of the Alamo and the fighting. I feared watching this video because I have basically ignored the Alamo since then. I doubted the gentleman would win the history battle. Now I see that he wasn't the only one who wanted the whole site exposed and revealed. Now I am very glad I saw this video and listened to the very intelligent beautiful lady who presented it. The young man in California has an agenda to uphold, he had a narrative that he must adhere to to keep his slaves enthralled.

Texas History Trust

Muchos gracias for your kind words. The Alamo and its history will always be a target of activist historians. The best we can do is to keep correcting them when they stray from the facts.

David Olson

This is extraordinary. Thanks for your continued efforts to honor Texas.

Texas History Trust

You're very kind to say so, D.O. Thank you for lending us your ear for half an hour.

Barry Browner

You only hear what you wanna hear

Star Prairie Hot Rods and Customs

I visited the site sometime around 2007. I remember that the ruins, such as what was left of walls lent me to believe the entire complex was way larger originally than what was rebuilt or preserved. Whatever was the case, they were not prepared or equipped for the Mexican force that overcame the site. That loss was a hard pill to swallow, of course there will be controversy in how history was written, lied about, sworn to and argued about. Nice work trying to sort out things, not sure about what is true but you had your facts straight and pointed out some errors or mistakes in the other persons point of view.

Texas Trails

Thank you for your work. As a 5th generation Native Texan, I really appreciate what you do.

queasy lagumo

Thank you. The idea that the defenders of the Alamo weren't heroic never sat well with me. Thanks again for clarifying what actual was.

Wes Williams

I agree with you fully. My family arrived in Texas after the Civil War. Later were involved in chasing the Comanches that made a late raid into North Texas. My cousin married into a Spanish Land Grant family in McAllen, they may not appear white, but they absolutely detest Mexicans, though they speak Spanish as easily as English. Their familial distaste for Mexico, Mexicans goes back to the time of Texas breaking ties with Mexico. I've a good friend, last name of Guerro who's family fought for the independence of Texas, that holds the same sentiments that they do. Their distaste is not racial, but no different than anti German sentiment after WWI and WWII.

Patrick LeMoine

As a Very Proud and Native Texan who's ancestry goes back to Thomas Jefferson Rusk I Absolutely Loved this and the Texan within me wants to Ban this cynical idiot from Ever entering Our State again. God and Texas

TheDrRJP

Great job. Thorough and concise to debunk this know-it-all who's not a real historian.

Jacob Hope

Wow! What a great video! You really did that well. Corrective and classy is a heck of a combination!

Texas History Trust

Thanks so much, Jacob! People say I went too easy on him, but I can't justify being nasty to a total stranger.

brent brumley

Just wanna say thanks. I visited the Alamo maybe around 2010... hope to make it back. I'm an Alabama implant here in the Socialist Republic of Austin btw. Btw, extra thanks... I came into this expecting you'd pretty much be making the video Cynical Historian made. Nice to hear you counter it instead.

Texas History Trust

I’m glad you chose to click it anyway, BB. I’m sure Austinites within earshot burst into flames 😂 Activist historians have a standard set of talking points on the Alamo and that’s what I expected from this man’s video. I was blown away by the next-level inaccuracy so…here we are.

When you decide to brave 35 and visit again, other than the Church, you won’t recognize the area from 2010. No more Ripley’s mess across the Plaza. Streets are closed to vehicular traffic. New collections center. New outdoor exhibits. All for the better, but change is jarring even when it’s good.

Renee Trosper-Jones

Obviously he has not studied the history of Texas. Doesn’t he know we wouldn’t have won the Texas fight for independence without Mexican citizens joining the rebels?

Texas History Trust

He does (I think) but claims the Tejano fighters are ignored in the Alamo's interpretation. That, of course, is patently false.

OnTheRoadWithTEX

I can't say with authority how many Texans in February of 1836 were citizens of Mexico, but certainly a large number of them were. While Hispanic Texans in 1836 were only about 8% of the population, many of the "foreign immigrants" had become citizens by virtue of obtaining "sitios" (plots of land) through empresarios--the first thing they were required to do by the "Colonization Law of 1825" was to register themselves and swear allegiance to the Mexican Constitution of 1824 before their local "ayuntamiento". This made them de facto citizens, as they could vote and hold public office.

Jim Choate

That in a nutshell says it all. Thank you.
Texans has always hated Mexicans and texicans, to this day.

OnTheRoadWithTEX

@Jim Choate To which comment are you replying?

Mike Clark

Thanks for the info, love all info on The Almo.

bob s

Wow. I never want to be on your bad side, Historically speaking. Great job.

Rick Savaiano

Thank you so much for your thorough work in this matter. It seems to me that the fella who goes by the Cynical Historian should have his degree revoked for his lack of scholarly work in this matter. This guy may be cynical, but he certainly is biased.

Anon Anon

Thank you. Well related.

Stephen Engdahl

Thank you! Finally, someone besides me who will debunk the debunked.
As director of the performance at the OK Corral in Tombstone from 2007-2013, I spent far too much time wasting my breath on all of the self-appointed history professors who flock to Tombstone with their first retirement check and their new cowboy suit to announce themselves as the next "first" one to tell us "real" history as opposed to the Hollywood version which they seem to think is always 100% wrong, blah, blah, blah...
Tha cynical historian comes off like just another cowboy reenacter.
Great job exposing his ineptitude.

Texas History Trust

I like to ask historic site director friends what their favorite "I know the REAL history" story is. I imagine your Tombstone experiences along those lines would fill a book. A thick book. It's easy to blame the internet for the everyone's-an-expert phenomenon but, as you know all too well, people accepting movies and family lore as gospel polluted the waters long before everyone got that AOL disc in the mail.

Les

As a reenactor I resent being lumped with that a$$hOle.

RT3 BOX6 TX

I'm a new subscriber. Native Texan always looking for new sources of info.

This gentleman you're referring to is one of many who are IMO attempting to force our well documented TX history narrative off course. Even my little Texas History book from the early 1900s makes reference to problems between Mexican and non-mexican settlers during the Empresario period when MX offered huge swaths of land to mostly Anglo men who could bring permanent inhabitants to the space along the El Camino Real.

The goal was to civilized this zone of travel from NOLA to Santa Fe to inhibit Indian raids on trade between the two locations.

Mexico and the Vatican had sacrificed many young, charismatic priests who inevitably failed at establishing missions for the same purpose.

I delight in your bold resistance to "wokeness" in this era of offering even the politically driven history revisionists a place on the platforms.

Texas is currently a popular target because typing it into a browser brings in millions of clicks. Most of the "historians" are perverting our history. Thanks for pointing out their foolishness. I've recently realized it could be a full time gig.

Gerald Madero

Well done!

Tommy Anderson - Film Maker

Touché, nicely done.

Brian Bonilla

Remember The Alamo!

Objective Observer

Amen. I am humbled and proud that Europeans are completely ignorant about the reality of MODERN Texas, BUT THEY KNOW THE ALAMO.

Edward Blalock

Thanks for sharing and correcting the narrative of the Cynical Historian.
Although I suspect that the cynical historian had no desire to be factually accurate. From what I gather he cares more about his narrative. If he convinces just a few people that the history we’ve been taught is about race he considers that a victory.
The Alamo is a shrine to those who fought valiantly against a tyrant.

Dr. A.

A tyrant, perhaps, but he was leading a fight to retrieve control over land that the S. F. Austin settlers had stolen and worked with slaves. As you know, Mexico had made slavery illegal and certainly had no wish to see immigrants reintroduce it. Austin had given his word in this regard.

d al

REMEMBER THE ALAMO! ENOUGH SAID!-❤️ THANKFUL TEXAN

Richard Bale

I have a few problems with the mythos of the Alamo. First and foremost is that, militarily speaking, the whole thing was just nonsense. The Texicans were stupid for defending a position of little strategic value, against a force that they should have known they could not beat. Santa Anna went all dumbass by deciding to take the fort, rather than just leaving a detachment large enough to starve the bastards out, while using the bulk of his force to pursue the other rebels.

As a kid in Texas, I was constantly shoveled the notion that the Texas rebels were a divine cadre of noble freedom fighters. Yes, they fought for freedom; freedom from taxation on the land that they had been given, freedom from obeying their legitimate government, and freedom to keep their slaves.

Should the Alamo be a monument to such people? By all means! My ex Army self thinks that anyone who puts up a good scrap deserves recognition. So go ahead and honor Crockett and Bowie. Keep intoning Tavis' "Neither retreat nor surrender" dispatch as if it's the bleeding Beatitudes. But one thing that should also be done? Raise a monument to the Mexican soldiers who valiantly died at the Alamo defending their country.

Mark

Nothing worth defending? San Antonio was the key to controlling one of two routes to the colonies.

Also, you don’t seem to know that Santa Anna’s winter forced march through the mountains of northern Mexico caught the garrison unaware. They believed they had another month to be either reinforced or withdraw.

Tell me about the country Mexican soldiers were “defending”. What had changed about the political structure in the previous year?

OnTheRoadWithTEX

Mexican soldiers were "Defending their country"? Like they did at Zacatecas, I suppose. Or like they did in brutally putting down revolts in San Luis Potosi, Queretaro, Durango, Guanajuato, Michoacan, Jalisco, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, and the parts of Coahuila y Texas that were Coahuila; they had tried to suppress opposition to Santa Anna in Yucatan but couldn't catch the rebels in the jungle so they declared victory and went back to Mexico City, only to see the Yucatan secede from Mexico in 1841, as they had done before in 1823.

There were two flags flying over the Alamo, as described by witnesses in San Antonio: the 1824 Constitution flag and the state flag of Coahuila y Texas. These flags symbolized what the defenders were fighting for: a restoration of the federal republic of Mexico (under the constitution to which they had sworn allegiance), and the restoration of their sovereign state of Coahuila y Texas (which had been undemocratically dissolved--along with all the other Mexican states--by the "Siete Leyes" proclaimed in December of 1835). The defenders of the Alamo had no way of knowing that on March 2nd of 1836, 175 miles and three rivers to the east, a Texan convention had declared Texas independent from Mexico and established the Republic of Texas.

Laws passed in 1830 did restrict American immigration into Texas and restricted the importation of African slaves into Texas. The tension this caused was moderated, however, by an exemption to slavery in Texas (aided somewhat by the sugar interests in southern Mexico which were dependent on African slaves, and who also got exempted from the law). The halt to immigration was pretty much ignored as was the cancelling of the 10-year exemption from property taxes promised to Texas settlers.

What prompted rebellion in Texas came almost 6 years later with the proclamation of the Siete Leyes. The Texans needed the Constitution of 1824 and the authority of the legislature of Coahuila y Texas to retain their original agreements with Mexico.

Rolly Herrera

Im related to Blas Maria Herrera; The Paul Revere of The Alamo..My ancestors were Spanish Cowboys here by land grants...

Rich Weatherly

Thank you for refuting the outrageous claims by this revisionist detractor. I appreciate the information you shared about the Alamo.

lee marlin

Some historians search for knowledge.
Some pursue an agenda.
This young man is trying to be part of a movement. Hopefully someday he will realize his error and go in search of knowledge.

Nathan Fisher

Well done

Texas History Trust

Appreciate you taking the time to watch. Anytime we go over about 8 minutes, we know people will get restless!

Nathan Fisher

@Texas History Trust you did a great job laying all the information out, im not from Texas but im a history lover and i easily followed you, thanks

Dianna Laubenberg

Juan Seguin needs more space in Texas History books.

Mark

His coverage is extensive.

Dianna Laubenberg

@Mark It wasn't when I was in school.

Texas History Trust

We addressed on this channel a professor who claims that our textbooks contain “chapter after chapter” on Stephen F. Austin. So we bought the textbooks to investigate. In reality, it’s 8 pages in one chapter. Now I’m curious about the Seguins.

lostagain

I have a hard time taking seriously someone talking about others being honest when he's sporting an obvious combover of his bald spot. Be honest with yourself before talking about other's honesty. That and his complete lack of basic research makes me wonder how he got his PhD in history.

Dino Gutierrez

That dude was woke. 189 Texans died there in the defense of the Alamo.

Thomas

189 Texans, from all over the world .

J H

Thank you for using FACTS to disprove an individual that considers himself an historian when clearly he gets most of his education from back of a cheerios box.

Shelby KR

Excellent! I can't wait 'till the Alamo watches this.

HoesMad

she dragged him. YES MOTHER!! WORK! SLAY QUEEN!

Texas History Trust

Had to back up off the old girl fierceness for this one! Dialed it down from 11 to 6.5 to keep my language PG-13.

James Beckham

Smart lady!

gary deutsch

Very well done.

Salvador Vela

@29:53 "The Alamo is an international symbol of strength in the face of overwhelming odds." A stand against a dictator is an definitely a skewed interpretation.

Mark

What’s the non skewed interpretation of a conflict with a guy who just orchestrated the an end to constitutional rule and the dissolution of all elected state and local governments?

Tim Givens

I am a 100%Texan Remember the Alamo

bryallen1987

Not to be too cynical, but I think your giving him too much credit.

There’s no doubt he knew. The facts just didn’t fit his narrative. He sort of has a history with that behavior.

Texas History Trust

We never attribute to malice what we can attribute to ignorance...until someone proves where the attribution rightly belongs.

politicalsheepdog

The Cynical Historian needs to find a different Hobby. He has messed up Political Agenda he's trying to apply to History. He has a lot of assumptions and little substance.

Stuart Yablon

Well presented. Thank you.

Michael Lacy

Most of the country doesn't understand that we have our own founding fathers and their names are Travis, Houston and Austin. People just don't understand that Texas is and has always been a multicultural region of the North American Continents. Actually, the battle at the Alamo was a victory because it delayed Santa Ana's army for 13 days giving Sam Houston time to get his Army ready and lets him choose the battle ground and that allowed Santa Ana to become even more arrogant splitting his forces which got him attacked by Houston and his capture which liberated the Independent Republic of Texas.

OnTheRoadWithTEX

FYI, while it seems logical that Santa Anna's name would be spelled as the literal translation of "Saint Ann" would be (Santa Ana), all the documents I've seen with his signature showed he signed his name "Santa Anna". That would be about a dozen documents.

Familia Sosa

those were just inmigrants who betaryed the mexican government. they were granted land yet they revolted because mexico banned slavery

A Remnant of Her Seed

To Cynical Historian:
Please learn from this and grow. Ironically, I should suggest you use what you've been shown here in order to mature into a better historian by "Remembering The Alamo".

Roger Bloxham

Bless his heart, all that money spent on a PhD and he didn’t learn anything

Studio G Ministry

When I went to visit
The people explaining the events, where very happily racist.
Not sure if they still give that speech.

Mark

What did they say?

SKaR64

Well done. This was another informative and humorous analysis of the rampant misinterpretation of our Texas history by the misguided. I've watched many of Cynical Historian's videos over the years and found some of them very interesting. Some also seem poorly researched, tendentious and mocking as with his Alamo criticism here. I've learned to be cynical or skeptical of some of his historical claims, which logically leads me to read and research further to separate the wheat from his chaff. No one is accurate 100% of the time, but you have a high watermark in my book and you back it up with easily corroborated evidence. Keep doing what you do and Recuerda El Álamo y a todos los defensores y sobrevivientes.

Leo Cuevas

Lol I think she lives here in San Antonio this lady has done all the research she knows it I don't think there's anybody who can contest it everything she said but if you're not from Texas if you're not you've only been to the Alamo two times in your life in my opinion I wouldn't talk about thinking with me I went to New York one time and I saw the Statue of Liberty doesn't make me an expert on the Statue of Liberty I'm just saying those are my opinions I'm just happy that there was somebody that could go back and correct him

Texas History Trust

Pretty close, by Texas standards! Our office is in Corpus Christi but I spend a lot of time running the roads, visiting historic site directors and checking out their new exhibits. I take pics of everything to help me write about those Texas adventures. Cynical could have taken photos to back up his claims. He couldn’t because he didn’t see what he says he saw. The rest (who runs the Alamo, etc) he could have learned from the internet. Grateful to you for watching.

Jim Flowers

He just needs to get back to the Lollypop Guild and stay away from history.

Respect My Authoritaa

You are kind in your treatment of the Cynical Historian. I wont be. He represents what is wrong with America today. I find his race baiting and rewriting of history particularly troublesome. Clearly a product of our modern educational system. This man has no value. I cannot imagine how miserable his life must be, endlessly searching for something to be offended by.

Texas History Trust

Welcome aboard and kudos for securing the best YouTube handle! He is definitely a product of our cookie cutter university system, but he shows signs of independent thought sometimes so I tried to be sweeter than I usually am.

Ken Hawkins

I have some advice for this gentleman don’t go to the Alamo and give them your opinion it’s not gonna turn out good

Clive KLG

Not finding it weird that the Soldados don't have a memorial or other memorials is part of the problem of a status quo and triumphalist views. It others or devalues the lives of them and is a PROBLEM with history. History is written by the victors is a WARNING not a mission statement.

Clive KLG

To person who deleted their comment, we should commemorate them. Go to major civil war sites. Both sides are commemorated. Commemoration doesn't = celebrate either. There is a difference.

Mark

Why, precisely, is that a problem?

Clive KLG

@Mark if you can't understand why dehumanizing people is a problem you have deeper issues than we have time to discuss.

Mark

How is it dehumanizing not to have a commemoration of the centralist soldados at the Alamo. Do you expect to see a commemoration of the Red Coats at Bunker Hill?

This dehumanization thing is only in your head.

Texas History Trust

Memorials at ACW sites make sense as a mechanism of healing within a nation. The same metrics do not apply at the Alamo.

Jay Miller

In a fair and balanced world, YouTube would label that video as "misinformation!" We ALL know that won't happen!

You made a great rebuttal! I have forwarded the email link I received to everyone I can think of!

Texas History Trust

Gracias, Jay. That's high praise coming from you!

OnTheRoadWithTEX

Not sure why I didn't get it in my email, but I did see it when I opened up YouTube to see college game highlights. Then, I sent the link to our local museum (Weslaco) and a couple of colleagues at South Texas College.

I've never been a professional historian, but as a graduate student and a teacher I've had to pretend to be one. I don't know if I can adequately express how much I appreciate what Michelle is doing with these videos. And too, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who thinks she's really good at it.

Nicholas Marzigliano

Hey Sonny Boy or should I say Cynical Historian, don't you feel stupid now ?

Mark McMillan

A very well researched video. I am a 5th generation Texan who had ancestors in Henry McCulloch’s Texas Ranger Company during the US War with Mexico. I’ve been watching how Texas history has been under assault from academia usually located outside our state borders. I grew up in Gonzales and had friends who had direct ancestors who were in the original 32 Gonzales citizens who perished in the Alamo. The story I always heard about the Texas Revolution passed down to locals there from their families had to do with the fact that Austin’s Colony citizenry had sorted out that they hadn’t been given the land because of any altruistic reason by Mexico City, it had more to do with setting up a buffer zone for northern and central Mexico from raids by the Comanche and Lupon Apache raiders. They were not receiving adequate protection from Mexico City and when they tried to organize their own defenses the Mexican government considered it sedition. It makes more sense to me. The Mexican Army lost the moral high ground (if they had ever possessed it) at the Goliad Massacre and it was all downhill from there between the settlers and the central government. That’s what I believe to be the truth, for whatever it’s worth.

As a 3rd generation Texan, history has shown that the Alamo battle was not pivotal. Further, the Mexican army came North primarily due to land grabbers like Stephen Austin & the hordes he brought in to overwhelm the territorial population agreement between Mexico & settlers. Free land is what brought the defenders of the Alamo there. In every regard, what became Texas was stolen from Mexico , then the United States stole the remainder of Mexican territories when that became economically advantageous. Mexico was & has been severely crippled economically following both events.i

Mark McMillan

@ US citizens were not allowed to immigrate into Austin’s colony after 1830. Most of the new settlers accepted by Mexico City were from the UK and Germany. Say what you will, the heavy handed manner that Mexico City dealt with the settlers had everything to do with the rebellion and the massacre at Goliad was totally reprehensible. That Texas Army that won that war won it fair and square.

Texas History Trust

As someone who knows generational pedigree doesn’t convey knowledge, I wonder what source you have that shows Bexar as anything but pivotal. Defense of the Alamo was about keeping San Antonio, not the ruins of a mission.

Why did the Spanish, then Mexican, government invite the “hordes” to the area? Why did they offer the land? Why wouldn’t people avail them of that offer?

Mark

@Mark McMillan Austin's and Robertson's colonies received exemptions from the 1830 colonization law.

Texasfirst72

Never believe a guy that glues his own public hair on his face.

Do0ran frump

The Alamo doesn't say anything... history books do. Frankly, i trust the history i have read of accounts from people who were present over any post modern crud.

Texas History Trust

The exhibits at the Alamo, written by professional historians., do say something. And, in the postmodernist spirit, he grossly misrepresented what they say.

Barry Browner

History is written by the winners, and they always tell their side of the story.

Texas History Trust

There are excellent books presenting the Mexican side of this story. Those perspective are represented at the Alamo. You'd know that if you watched the video instead of just commenting on the title.

rosgill6

Don't Mess with Texas, young revisionist. Great video!

Texas History Trust

I read the first part of this in an Obi Wan Kenobi voice. Probably not what you intended!

BRealistic

just recently it has been discovered that General Custer of Custers last Stand fame shot himself in the head before he was captured by the Indians with his own revolver.

Not quite the hero you have been lead to believe...

Mark

Also, I don’t know what Custer has to do this video, but you keep on chomping you’re crayons. You’re special and don’t forget it.

L. Logan Boswell

Great job.

Texas native Smith

In my view, you were way too easy on this guy. He was obviously more concerned with his revisionist political agenda and trying to find racism under every rock. Thankfully there are still Texans who still insist on facts. Good work and REMEMBER THE ALAMO.

JC Davidson

I'm a 5th generation Texan and the Cynical HIstorian has no idea what the tenets of historical research involve. I heartily applaud your response to Cynical Historian/Dolt, but he's not worth a single minute of your expertise.

Steven Hall

Anything to get rid of history, they never seem to stop

k maher

I like Cynucal Historian but was disappointed by his Alamo story. Two recent visits and a bit of reading were insufficient.

I learned to read with an old copy of Texas History Movies and had the usual 2 years of Texas History in school. And I continued reading to learn the fuller story. I knew John Wayne's movie was more Hollywood than History

You covered Cynical's faulty History quite well.

Forget The Alamo was better journalism than History. That is the end chapters detailing how Dan Patrick interfered with the Alamo because he feared Young Bush would try for Lt Gov as the next step in Yet Another Bush Career.

Patrick's meddling did no good. And the Alamo as a museum is still evolving

Cynical has studied Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. He has a lot to learn about Texas

Good work on your part...

Texas History Trust

Appreciate your well-informed input and agree on FTA. Turns out reporters are good at reporting (sometimes!) Wish they'd have left the book at that, but it wouldn't have sold nearly as well. The historian whose work they leaned on for their slavery take didn't much appreciate how selectively they used his work.

k maher

@texashistorytrust 
An Empire for Slavery by Randolph Camobell was the first book on slavery in Texas. Obviously not one of Cynucal's sources

Mexuco's refusal of slavery was a problem with some Anglo settlers but did not trigger the Revolution. Santa Anna's usurpation of the Constitution triggered several Mexican revolts. He came to Texas to cement his power not to free any slaves

His ferocity turned the ragged crews shivering in old missions during the chilly spring of 1836 into Perfect Heroes and a winning battle cry...

Thomas Watts, Jr.

I dont trust anyone who looks like they never bathe.

G H

I've not been there since 2010, so I look forward to visiting it again. Is it true that Santa Ana stayed at the Hyatt across from the Mission? REMEMBER THE ALAMO!

Sonnyblu62

I am a Crockett... Am I proud of my heritage? (I am proud Davy said he had more in common with Indians than Andrew Jackson) The thing about the Alamo and all of Texas expansion that seems so ignored is that, That land belonged to Mexico and we just decided we wanted it, so we just took it. :-(

Mark

Land is for winners. How do you think mexico got it?

OnTheRoadWithTEX

"Texas expansion"?

The settlers who populated Texas were invited into Texas because nobody from Mexico wanted to live in Texas, and the Spanish settlers who came in the 1700s reached a peak population circa 1790 of 2,800, then due to the increasing depredations of another immigrant group--the Comanches--the Spanish began to leave Texas such that the population in 1820 had dwindled to about 2,400, and it was dropping fast. In 1821, Stephen F. Austin's request to bring in 300 families to settle in Texas was approved, first by the Spanish, then by the newly liberated Mexican authorities; and his initial settlers doubled the population of Texas.

The Texans of 1836 didn't just take the land, they were rebelling against Santa Anna's usurpation of the Mexican Constitution of 1824 (to which they had sworn allegiance) and the proclamation of his puppet, Jose Justo Corro, interim president of Mexico, of the "Siete Leyes" which was to be a sort of new constitution rescinding the federal republic and establishing a unitary system of government. The Mexican states were to be abolished, the elected governors dismissed, and the elected legislatures disbanded. Such action prompted rebellions all over Mexico and the secession of the states of Yucatan, Tamualipas, and Coahuila y Texas. The department of Coahuila y Texas that was Coahuila was suppressed and the governor of the state was captured trying to escape to San Antonio with the official records.

If you're confusing all of this with the US-Mexico War of 1846-48, well, you're over-simplifying that as well.

Marsha Baker

Good Job and extremely enlightening!! Thanks! To the other person---do your research Waaay Better and stop LOOKING for things that aren't there!

Young Leaper

The Alamo is where God enshrined Texas as the bastion of Freemen

k maher

Except for Joe, the enslaved servant of Travis...

Young Leaper

@k maher Well they were chattel at the time, not men

k maher

@gassesv 
Joe was a man but considered chattel. He was assigned to work off Travus's debts. He left Texas and walked to Alabama to the Travis family. Where he stayed even after War freed him

Susannah Dickinson the other witness of the Alamo was little mote than chattel as an illiterate woman. She found peace after many hard years. The daughter she carried from the Alamo met a sad end

Cynucal Historian was working on too little hustory. A shining motto also demonstrates deficiency

Victor Pez

I desend from the one that signed the independence José Antonio Navarro remember the Alamo and don't heate like Palestine let's become one nation under God

Seth Sidd

I appreciate your defense but it seems you strategically left out way too much of the negative information surrounding both the history of the conflict and of the DRT. Please understand this is NOT a defense of Cynical Historian. I just couldn't help notice other information you left out that would have made this video more well rounded.

Texas History Trust

What did I leave out?

Seth Sidd

@Texas History Trust - You left out a lot. But in your defense, I understand that a 30 minute video does not give you ample time to detail some of the not so flattering side of the Texas story or the DRT. Plus, I also understand your video was simply just a rebuttal video to counter certain points of the Cynical Historian's content in regards to the Alamo and the DRT. I myself would probably also need more than 30 minutes to respond to your question of what was left out. But no one can deny what an interesting time period it was for The United States, Mexico and Texas.

Texas History Trust

I deeply appreciate your understanding of the purpose of this video. I also appreciate that you watched it instead of simply reacting to a video title, an all too frequent occurrence on YouTube. I cut about 15 minutes of responses to more of his claims. I think an exploration of DRT's history alone would take ninety minutes. How they came to have/lose the Alamo, ditto. That's a complicated story that even some who lived through it don't fully understand. An exploration of what led up to the Alamo would take a series. I wouldn't have made this video at all if his wasn't based on things he claims he saw (but didn't substantiate) and if he didn't omit the huge changes taking place at the site during both of his visits. When time and budget permit, a series on Texas myths is coming. Texas has some great, inspiring stories. Texas has some gnarly, ugly stories. But not all stories are history. We'd like more people to understand that.

Artisa Primus

The old saying " history is written by the victors" has never been so true. The Alamo became a shrine also immediately. Santa Anna proved repeatedly what an inept leader he was militarily and as President. The Texas settlers were given parcels of land on the condition they become Catholic and didn't own slaves. They did neither. The Mexican government had just cause to quell the rebellion. So, not quite the noble cause of freedom as portrayed. In the end, Santa Anna displayed his incompetent and ended up giving up a third of the US by the treaty of 1848.

Texas History Trust

History wasn’t only written by the victors. There are English translations of excellent Mexican perspectives of the Texas Revolution. Texas historians have incorporated those into the study of our history for decades.

And no, there was no Mexican prohibition on slavery when Anglo settlers began to arrive. The Guerrero Decree (never enacted) wasn’t issued until 1829. When an effective abolition decree did come down, it was a Tejano slaveowner who authored the indentured servitude workaround exemption for Texas. Just as the video says, history is complicated.

Artisa Primus

@Texas History Trust Thank you for response. So, did Mexico prohibit slavery and if so when?

Mark

@Artisa Primusthe president Guerrero issued many decrees under the emergency powers granted him by the Mexican congress to prevent Spanish reconquest.

One of those decrees, issued on September 16, 1829, abolished slavery in Mexico, except for in the isthmus of Tehuantepec where a canal was being contemplated. Two months later, Guerrero exempted Texas as well, before the decree was ever announced here.

Eighteen months later, in early 1831, the Mexican congress decided Guerrero had exceeded his emergency authority, and annulled most of his decrees, including the one ending slavery.

Chattel slavery was then legal in all of Mexico until the spring of 1837, a year after Texas independence, when the congress abolished it.

Didn’t do anything to end debt slavery, but that’s a longer and even more complicated story.

Artisa Primus

@Mark Great information. I've never heard any of this before. Thx

Mark

@Artisa Primus Mexico’s history is is incredibly complicated, especially during the first decades of independence from Spain. It does not lend itself to bumper sticker pronouncements so most people, even professional historians, avoid digging into it.

A M

seems this "new" phd has more schooling to complete. It is obvious he
has an issue with the DRT and American history in genetal. Too woke.

politically Relaxed

Thank you for schooling this kid

Will Wiggins

The Cynical Historian is an idiotic excuse for a researher.

Jean Kutzer

Thanks for pouncing on this person's distorted take. Every few years it seems someone is trying to do this. War is a brutal thing. There were brutalitys committed before the Alamo that are not mentioned often. The largest battle ever fought in Texas was just south of San Antonio. The Battle of Encinal de Medina in 1813 where over 800 cannon shot were fired. Spain was out for vengeance after learning their POW's taken 4 months earlier were all tortured and killed and after the battle a good portion of the population of San Antonio were put to death. Among the Spanish soldiers was a young Lt Santa Anna.
Also San Antonio voted not to join the Confederacy and sided with Sam Houston in joining the Union or going back to being a Republic and sitting out the war. Those Confederate monuments that used to be in a park in San Antonio were erected by refugees from Alabama after the war. This woke guy needs another hobby.

OnTheRoadWithTEX

@jeankutzer1556 There was no vote tallied by San Antonio on the question of joining the Confederacy or the Union. There was a vote on secession from the US, but it was county by county, and Bexar County voted 827 (For) to 709 (Against). Counties with heavy German populations tended to vote strongly against secession, and several counties along the Red River (recently settled by immigrants from the midwest) also voted substantially against secession. Everywhere else the voting was overwhelmingly in favor of secession, with 5 counties showing unanimous support for secession and 10 others with only 5 or fewer votes against secession. The vote in El Paso County, for example, was 871 to 2, with Karnes County having 153 to 1, and Panola County tallying 557 to 5, all in favor of secession.

When the question of secession from the US was being taken up by the Texas legislature and a convention was authorized to consider an ordinance of secession, Sam Houston, who was governor of Texas at the time, called for the statewide vote to accept or reject the ordinance. He was opposed to secession because he believed Lincoln would successfully invade the states that seceded; and, Houston was opposed to joining a confederacy with the six other states that had already seceded for the same reason. Houston did argue that if Texas seceded, we should reinstate the Republic of Texas, as Lincoln might not invade Texas if we pursued that option. After all, in Congressional debates on the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, when the discussion touched on the secession of Texas from Mexico, Lincoln said on the floor of the House that secession was a "sacred right" enjoyed by all free people.

SOLDTONORM

What is HIS mission besides the destruction of the elevation of patriotic sacrifice to the level of shrine. Another Karen.

Texas History Trust

I am reliably informed that the male term for a Karen is a "Kyle." It seems YouTube his mission, after being unable to find a teaching job with his Ph.D.

SOLDTONORM

"Karen" was less specific so I don't mis- gender. You made a great presentation.@Texas History Trust

Sonic Grace

Excellent !!!

Luther Thompson

The young cynical man may not be able to read. Sadly, he spews woke concepts that fly in the face of more factual careful scholarly investigation.

CONFEDERATE HERO

Oh yeah I'll believe someone with a PhD 😂 I had an Aunt with a PhD and she was a fruitcake.

Mark

I had a fruitcake with a PhD. Tasted like any other fruitcake, but insisted we call call it Dr. Fruitcake.

CONFEDERATE HERO

@Mark Makes sense to someone I suppose.

Texas History Trust

When introduce themselves as doctor, I always ask if they’re the kind who can help if I have a cardiac episode or the kind who would write a paper about “systemic injustices that cause cardiac problems among populations of birthing people.”

KEITH VAUGHN's Flying Circus

Great job on setting the record straight...and schooling the Cynical.

B

Bravo, well done and fair. As a decendent you honor my ancestor and truth and justice...

Martha Gomez

The Alamo was occupied by terrorists who were on Mexican territory, not defenders. Why remember the Alamo? It was a great Mexican victory. San Jacinto was like 911. The Mexican soldiers were asleep. It was no battle.

Mark

Poor thing. I can tell you aren’t well. I hope you get the help you need.

Mark

I’ll pray for your recovery.

Respect My Authoritaa

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Larry Coker

enjoyed this video , should reference Brian Kilmeade book Sam Houston & the Alamo avengers , very interesting thanks for the video