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Remember the Alamo, An American Landmark

Alamo Hall - Daily Schedule

June 21 - 26 and June 28 - July 3, 2009

Workshop Schedule

Sunday Opening Session
11:00 - 12:00 Registration
12:00 - 1:00 Welcome - Introduction and Workshop Overview - Presentation of the five central themes of the workshop - overview of required readings.
1:00 - 1:15 Break
1:30 – 3:45 Presentation – Brief history of the Alamo – Scholar: Dr. Bruce Winders, Alamo Curator, and Historian. Description of resources available at the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library – tour of the library – Elaine Davis, Library Executive Director. Description of resources available at the Institute of Texan Cultures – Patricia Dunn, education specialist
3:45 - 4:30 Brief tour of Alamo grounds
4:30 - 5:30 Opening Reception

Monday:  Remembering the Alamo , Spanish exploration and settlements - the early history of the Alamo with special emphasis on the cultural issues leading to the beginning of the Texas Revolution. 

Scholar:  Dr. Raul Ramos, University of Houston, Houston, Texas

Readings: "The Colonization and Independence of Texas : A Tejano Perspective," in Myths, Misdeeds, and Misunderstandings: The Roots of Conflict in United States-Mexico Relations, eds. Jaime E. Rodríguez O. and Kathryn Vincent. Wilmington , Delaware : Scholarly Resources. Selections from: Raul Ramos, Beyond the Alamo : Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio , 1821-1861, University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
9:00 - 10:30 Presentation - Dr. Ramos - The early history of Texas with special emphasis on the cultural issues leading to the beginning of the Texas Revolution
10:30 -10:45 Break
10:45-11:45 Presentation continues with discussion with Dr. Ramos
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:15 -1:45 Presentation - the Spanish missions and their importance to the Texas conflict
2:00 - 5:00 Tour San Antonio Missions

Tuesday:  "To the People of Texas & all Americans in the world. . ." American western expansion and rugged individualism played-out in the Battle of the Alamo . 

Scholar:  Dr. H.W. Brands, University of Texas at Austin . 

Reading : selections from HW Brands’, Lone Star Nation: How a Ragged Army of Volunteers Won the Battle for Texas Independence —and Changed America . Doubleday, 2004
7:30 am

Leave for Austin - LBJ Presidential Library and Center for American History, UT-Austin
9:00 - 10:30

Welcome to the LBJ Presidential Library and the Center for American History

Presentation – Dr. H.W. Brands – The Texas Revolution and its relationship to American individualism
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45 Presentation continues - The aftermath of the fall of the Alamo and the affects of the Texas Revolution on American history/ Discussion with Dr. H.W. Brands
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 4:30

Small group/individual consultations with - Dr. Brands and/or Research /Curriculum planning - Center for American History, Texas State Library and Archives, Texas General Land Office, or LBJ Library
4:45 Return to San Antonio

Evening Event

6:00 - 8:00          Presentation and gallery tour - Spanish Colonial and Tejano 19th Century Art - San Antonio Museum of Art, Dr. Marion Oettinger, Jr., Director.  Group dinner for those who wish to attend following the museum experience.

Wednesday:  "Gone to Texas "- American Social issues of the 19th century and reality of living on the frontier. 

Scholar:  Dr. Caroline Castillo Crimm, Sam Houston University , Huntsville  

Readings :  "The Black Texans and Slavery in Revolution and War," 238+, The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political And Social History, 1835-1836, by Paul D. Lack.  College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c1992. Selections from Mary Austin Holley, The Texas Diary, 1835-1838, edited with an introduction by J. P. Bryan. Austin , University of Texas , 1965. Selections from De León: A Tejano Family History, Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004, by Caroline Crimm.
9:00 - 10:30 Presentation - Dr. Crimm - slavery, frontier women, and the Texas Revolution
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:45 Presentation continues/ discussion with Dr. Crimm
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 Small group/individual consultations with Dr. Crimm
3:00 - 5:00 Research/Curriculum planning - Alamo library/ Texas Institute of Cultures/online sources.  May work individually or in small groups - conference facilitator and curriculum developer available
Evening Event
6:30 - 9:00 Music of the 19th Century Frontier - special presenter - Tennessee Valley Authority, bluegrass performance group

Thursday:  "And now for the rest of the story. . ." - the battle for the Alamo . 

Scholar: Dr. Robert B. Winders, Alamo Curator, Historian.

Readings : Selections from Dr. Winder’s book Sacrificed at the Alamo: Tragedy and Triumph in the Texas Revolution. Abilene : State House Press, 2004.  Chapters 6, 7, & 8, Texian Iliad:  A Military History of the Texas Revolution, Austin :  University of Texas Press, 1994, by Stephen L. Hardin; and Revolution Remembered:  The Memoirs & Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Sequin, Austin :  State House Press, 1991, by J. Frank De La Teja. 
9:00 - 10:30 Presentation - Dr. Winders
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Presentation continues/ consultations with Dr. Winders.
12:15 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 5:00 Research /Curriculum planning - Alamo library/ Texas Institute of Cultures/online sources.  Faculty may work individually or in small groups -- Conference facilitator and community college mentor available.
Evening Tour/presentation
5:30-7:00 Who Owns History? -- Architecture and the importance of historical preservation- the Alamo a case study.  After-hours architectural tour of Alamo buildings Scholar: Dr. Robert B. Winders, Alamo Curator, Historian.

Friday: "John Wayne’s Alamo " - Popular history versus scholarly history, using historical events as subjects for popular media, and an on-site visit to a restored 1830s military site. 

Scholar:  Dr. Stephen L. Hardin, Victoria College . 

Readings : Selections from Cowboys and Cadillacs:  How Hollywood Looks at Texas , by Don Graham.  Austin :  Texas Monthly Press, 1983, pp.41-53, and selections from The Alamo: A Cultural History, by Frank Thompson, Dallas :  Taylor Trade Publishers, 2001, pp. 142-188.
7:30 am Leave for Goliad and Gonzales - watch The Alamo (2004) on the bus
9:00 -10:30

Tour Gonzales - "Come and Take it" Museum and battle site

Presentation Dr. Hardin - Popular history versus scholarly history
10:30 -10:45 Break
11:00 -12:00 Leave for Goliad - lunch provided on bus - picnic at park
1:00 - 4:30

Tour the La Bahia Presidio at Goliad - recreated history presentation -

Dr. Hardin’s presentation continues
4:45 Return to San Antonio
6:30 Group dinner and curriculum presentations
Saturday:  Head for Home

 

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