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Author: Dan Alvarez Garza Publisher: Independent ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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A thorough investigation into the life of Texas heroine Francisca Alvarez. During the Texas Revolution of 1836, a young, beautiful 20-year-old Mexican lady risked everything to save American prisoners from execution in Goliad, Texas. However, because of Mexican President Santa Anna's orders to execute them all, it became known as the Goliad Massacre. As a descendant, the author studied the historical testimonials for over 35 years, trying to find her true identity. No one knew her real name since she used different names when speaking to the Presidio La Bahia soldiers. In his research. he found that at a very young age, the Apache abducted her and lived with them for several years before being found and taken to an orphanage in San Luis Potosi. There, she was educated and became a pious, brilliant young lady. General Urrea's family hired her as a governess, leading her to come to Texas at Presidio La Bahia during the Texas Revolution. Because she saved many American soldiers, they proclaimed her The Angel of Goliad, Texas heroine.
Author: Dan Alvarez Garza Publisher: Independent ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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A thorough investigation into the life of Texas heroine Francisca Alvarez. During the Texas Revolution of 1836, a young, beautiful 20-year-old Mexican lady risked everything to save American prisoners from execution in Goliad, Texas. However, because of Mexican President Santa Anna's orders to execute them all, it became known as the Goliad Massacre. As a descendant, the author studied the historical testimonials for over 35 years, trying to find her true identity. No one knew her real name since she used different names when speaking to the Presidio La Bahia soldiers. In his research. he found that at a very young age, the Apache abducted her and lived with them for several years before being found and taken to an orphanage in San Luis Potosi. There, she was educated and became a pious, brilliant young lady. General Urrea's family hired her as a governess, leading her to come to Texas at Presidio La Bahia during the Texas Revolution. Because she saved many American soldiers, they proclaimed her The Angel of Goliad, Texas heroine.
Author: Gerald E. Poyo Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292784902 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 214
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A century before the arrival of Stephen F. Austin's colonists, Spanish settlers from Mexico were putting down roots in Texas. From San Antonio de Bexar and La Bahia (Goliad) northeastward to Los Adaes and later Nacogdoches, they formed communities that evolved their own distinct "Tejano" identity. In Tejano Journey, 1770-1850, Gerald Poyo and other noted borderlands historians track the changes and continuities within Tejano communities during the years in which Texas passed from Spain to Mexico to the Republic of Texas and finally to the United States. The authors show how a complex process of accommodation and resistance—marked at different periods by Tejano insurrections, efforts to work within the political and legal systems, and isolation from the mainstream—characterized these years of changing sovereignty. While interest in Spanish and Mexican borderlands history has grown tremendously in recent years, the story has never been fully told from the Tejano perspective. This book complements and continues the history begun in Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio, which Gerald E. Poyo edited with Gilberto M. Hinojosa.
Author: United States. Office of Education. Education Service Center, Region 13 Publisher: ISBN: Category : Education, Bilingual Languages : en Pages : 316
Author: Lawrence Drake Williams, Jr. Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1039151078 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 322
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Texans are fiercely proud of their “Lone Star” flag. It has flown from foxholes, been displayed at military bases around the world, and even been to space. Most Americans don’t even know that the state has had a grand total of fifty-nine different flags over the course of its great history. Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags explores the standards for a different approach to a history of Texas. Throughout each chapter, the author provides a story taken from history texts, research and anecdotes collected during his teaching and travels, which took fifteen years. This unique history of Texas will captivate the reader from the first Spanish flag through revolutions and pirates, to the “Bonnie Blue Flag” of the Civil War.
Author: Lauro F. Cavazos Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1603440445 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 297
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On September 20, 1988, Lauro Cavazos became the first Hispanic in the history of the United States to be appointed to the Cabinet, when thenvice president George H. W. Bush swore him in as secretary of education. Cavazos, born on the legendary King Ranch in South Texas and educated in a two-room ranch schoolhouse, served until December 1990, after which he returned to his career in medical education and academic administration. In this engaging memoir, he recounts not only his years in Washington but also the childhood influences and life experiences that informed his policies in office. The ranch, he says, taught him how to live. These pages are full of glimpses into life on the famous ranch. Cavazos tells of Christmas parties, cattle work, and schooling. In his home, he was introduced to a natural bilingualism: he and his siblings were encouraged to speak only English with their father and only Spanish with their mother. Cavazos describes the high educational expectations his parents held. After service in World War II, Cavazos went to college and earned a doctorate from Iowa State University, launching him on a career in medical education. In 1980 he returned to his alma mater, Texas Tech University, as its tenth presidentthe first Hispanic and the first graduate of the university to serve in that post. As secretary of education, Cavazos stressed a commitment to reading. Indeed, he once told a group of educators that the curriculum for the first three years of school should be “reading, reading, and more reading.” His career is as interesting as it is inspiring, and Cavazos’ memoir joins the ranks of emerging success stories by Mexican Americans that will provide models for aspiring young people today.
Author: Tracie Egan Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 9780823941094 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 40
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Profiles a Mexican woman who saved more than twenty Texan rebels taken prisoner during the Texas Revolution from being shot under General Santa Anna's orders.
Author: Sonia R. García Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292779984 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 189
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In the decades since Latinas began to hold public office in the United States in the late 1950s, they have blazed new trails in public life, bringing fresh perspectives, leadership styles, and policy agendas to the business of governing cities, counties, states, and the nation. As of 2004, Latinas occupied 27.4 percent of the more than 6,000 elected and appointed local, state, and national positions filled by Hispanic officeholders. The greatest number of these Latina officeholders reside in Texas, where nearly six hundred women occupy posts from municipal offices, school boards, and county offices to seats in the Texas House and Senate. In this book, five Latina political scientists profile the women who have been the first Latinas to hold key elected and appointed positions in Texas government. Through interviews with each woman or her associates, the authors explore and theorize about Latina officeholders' political socialization, decision to run for office and obstacles overcome, leadership style, and representational roles and advocacy. The profiles begin with Irma Rangel, the first Latina elected to the Texas House of Representatives, and Judith Zaffirini and Leticia Van de Putte, the only two Latinas to serve in the Texas Senate. The authors also interview Lena Guerrero, the first and only Latina to serve in a statewide office; judges Linda Yanes, Alma Lopez, Elma Salinas Ender, Mary Roman, and Alicia Chacón; mayors Blanca Sanchez Vela (Brownsville), Betty Flores (Laredo), and Olivia Serna (Crystal City); and Latina city councilwomen from San Antonio, El Paso, Dallas, Houston, and Laredo.
Author: Dan Alvarez Garza
Author: Dan Alvarez Garza
Author: Gerald E. Poyo
Author: Tracie Egan
Author: United States. Office of Education. Education Service Center, Region 13
Author: Lawrence Drake Williams, Jr.
Author: Lauro F. Cavazos
Author: Tracie Egan
Author: Sonia R. García
Author: Philip D. Ortego y Gasca
Author: Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale