HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Bowie Knife, Runaway Scrape, Popular History
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Mexican war cont: history buffs v. historians. Historians have to have work reviewed by peers. History buffs can not have career ended by reviews. History buffs mainly out to make a buck. Historians tend to look down on history buffs. History buffs tend to be more successful because books by historian tend to be more dry. Works by historians are rarely read by the common man. Want to know exactly what happened at that battle. The alamo was the least popular because it stuck to purely historical fact while titanic and pearl harbor had history and a love story: the alamo. Martin perfecto de cos: sent through tx by santa ana to disarm rebels; texans attack him at alamo in 1839 and kicked out and they keep a lot of his ammunition. Santa ana marches north: marches with about 40,000 people and meets rebels at the.
