Exhibitions

Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of a Texas Experience
 

Alamo Plaza, by Eugene O. Goldbeck, ca. 1919. Courtesy Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.

"The role of myth in American history is probably nowhere more effectively illustrated than in the battle of the Alamo. The encounter was violent and dramatic, its participants gallant. Most critically, there were no survivors, at least among its white male defenders, leaving others free to reconstruct a history based more frequently upon conjecture and imagination than upon verifiable evidence." — Clifton H. Jones, from Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of a Texas Experience (exhibition catalog)

Exhibition

Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of a Texas Experience surveys the Alamo of the Texas imagination through illustrations drawn from historical documents, paintings, sketches, cartoons, comic books, television, and film. Alamo Images focuses, not merely on Texas history, but on the mythic power of events that helped define a community, state, and nation. Panel topics include:

• The Alamo as Spanish mission
• As a ruin reused for commerce
• The struggle to make it a shrine
• The story of the siege and battle
• San Antonio as a Tejano town
• Alamo defenders and survivors
• The three heroes
• Ongoing uses of Alamo imagery

Alamo Images 

is an exhibition organized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University in Dallas and produced by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Exhibition Formats

Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of a Texas Experience is available in two formats:

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Publicity Materials

Press release

Alamo Images press release. 

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