Alamo Exibit - Last Thursday Professor Littlejohn's HIS388 class met up at the local Huntsville museum (the one next to the lake/pond). The reason: to experience "public history". The topic: the Alamo. The exhibit itself was quite small, taking up only a few square yards of room space. But it did display a lot of info about the topic at hand. About half of it was tied to popular culture views of the Alamo (Hollywood, etc). Suprisingly, the exhibit showed very little about the Battle of the Alamo, but instead went into what happened to Alamo after the famous battle.
Did you know that the Alamo chapel was used as a store? Yea, me neither (check the source to the right, it came straight from the exhibit.) I never knew that a historical site so highly revered as the great Alamo was once a simple warehouse. I'm glad that someone took the time to preserve & restore the Old Alamo to what it is today. If not, then maybe all we'd have in San Antonio is the River Walk & Six Flags Fiesta Texas. Seriously though, i gotta give credit to exhibits like the one we visited last week and its contribution to public history, or some people, like myself, may never have known a lot of things that actually happened at the Alamo. SJP
Alamo Exibit - Last Thursday Professor Littlejohn's HIS388 class met up at the local Huntsville museum (the one next to the lake/pond). The reason: to experience "public history". The topic: the Alamo. The exhibit itself was quite small, taking up only a few square yards of room space. But it did display a lot of info about the topic at hand. About half of it was tied to popular culture views of the Alamo (Hollywood, etc). Suprisingly, the exhibit showed very little about the Battle of the Alamo, but instead went into what happened to Alamo after the famous battle.
Did you know that the Alamo chapel was used as a store? Yea, me neither (check the source to the right, it came straight from the exhibit.) I never knew that a historical site so highly revered as the great Alamo was once a simple warehouse. I'm glad that someone took the time to preserve & restore the Old Alamo to what it is today. If not, then maybe all we'd have in San Antonio is the River Walk & Six Flags Fiesta Texas. Seriously though, i gotta give credit to exhibits like the one we visited last week and its contribution to public history, or some people, like myself, may never have known a lot of things that actually happened at the Alamo. SJP
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