The Alamo story and the war between the Mexico and the rebel Texans is so filled with myth that any attempt to tell the story will almost always end with more questions than answers. Recent research, especially by Phillip Tucker, PhD, reveals that much of what has been told about the Alamo is simply racial…
Just because someone claims that some historical figure was a good guy doesn’t make it so. This is the case with Texas President Sam Houston and his less than humane views that was unfortunately defended by a few uneducated individuals at the San Antonio School Board closure meeting held recently. Sam Houston became the president…
Without the myth, and looking at the significance of slavery and the Mexican abolition of slavery in 1829, the largely pro-slavery Texas settlers and the Republic of Mexico were headed for war. In a two volume work by Dr Phillip Tucker, the war for Texas independence is steeped in hidden facts that the public has…
Over the years the defenders of the Alamo have been touted as fighters for freedom and liberty for Texans. This unchallenged history is finally being debated and discussed by those who had accepted the standard version of Alamo history. The Alamo defenders are portrayed as “freedom fighters,” when in fact their history tells another story.…
Over the years the defenders of the Alamo have been touted as fighters for freedom and liberty for Texans. This unchallenged history is finally being debated and discussed by those who had accepted the standard version of Alamo history. The Alamo defenders are portrayed as “freedom fighters,” when in fact their history tells another story.…
There is a lie that needs to be straightened out! This lie involves the bones entombed in a small marble casket in the downtown San Antonio San Fernando Cathedral. On a sign at the entrance to the church, there is a marker that claims that the ashes of so-called Alamo heroes Jim Bowie, David Crockett,…
The song that Mexican buglers played just before they killed the slave owners inside the Alamo was called “El Deguello,” and was probably a Moorish song from Africa that was used to indicate that no white slave owners would be spared—no wonder they were so mad about this lose and could never get over it!…
There is a big falsehood that needs to be straightened out! This racial propaganda involves the bones entombed in a small marble casket in the downtown San Antonio San Fernando Cathedral. On a marker at the entrance to the church, there are claims that the ashes of so-called Alamo heroes Jim Bowie, David Crockett, and…
According to Benjamin Lundy, a white abolitionist, that lived during the time of the Alamo, “Texas Independence was based on slavery, land theft, and cotton production –Hence, the Battle of the Alamo and San Jacinto was a basically a “slave owner rebellion.” With March being a month where repeated fake history is the norm,…
The comparison of the Battle of the Alamo to the Battle of Thermopylae is a farce that any rookie historian can prove. The Spartan 300 that supposedly fought long enough to delay a Persian army is simply not true. The Spartans in that battle had the help of thousands of soldiers from various tribes, something…
In a new book just published by Phillip Tucker, PhD, titled “Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth,” the myths of the Alamo have finally been revealed in a straight forward no-joke narrative. Dr. Tucker reveals that most of the Anglo slavers that died at the Alamo did not in fact…
The Alamo story and the war between the Mexico and the rebel Texans is so filled with myth and outright lies that any attempt to understand the story will almost always evoke rabid denials by those that have been brainwashed with Bowie and coonskin baloney. Recent research by Phillip Tucker, PhD, reveals that much of…
