Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas

By Gregg Cantrell and Elizabeth Hayes Turner

The past has long fingers into the present, but they are not just the fingers of fact. How we remember the past is at least as important as the “objective” facts of that past. The memories used by a people to define itself have to be understood not just as (sometimes) bad history but also as historical artifacts themselves. In just this way, this book uses both scholarly history and collective memory to examine Texas’ pasts, featuring chapters by scholars with a range of experience.

296 pages, hard cover with dust jacket

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