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BATTLE OF SNN JACINTO
SYtrztPoSIUM 2014
The Tejano Side of the Texas Revolution
Presented by the San |acinto Battleground Conservancy
Saturday, April 12,2014,9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The Ripley House * 4410 Navigation x Houston, TX 77003
The 14th annual Battle of San )acinto Symposium looks at the Texas Revolution through the eyes of nativeborn Tejanos who fought for independence from Mexico alongside "newcomers" from the United States
and Europe. Six Texas history scholars tackle what has evolved into a somewhat off-kilter memory of the
Revolution- that it was simply Anglos against Mexicans.
8:00 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
CHECK IN
On-site registration
Visit exhibits
LUNCH
1:15 p.m.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
9:00 a.m.
WELCOME
|an DeVault, President
San facinto Battleground Conservancy
l:25p.m.
ANTONIO MENCHACA AT SAN JACINTO
fesris F. de la Teja, PhD
Supple Professor
9:10 a.m.
Director, Center for the Study of the Southwest
THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO
feff Dunn, Advisory Director
San |acinto Battleground Conservancy
Texas State University
9:30 a.m.
SAN ANTONIO TEJANOS
Raril Ramos, PhD
Associate Professor of History
Director of Undergraduate Studies
University of Houston
10:10 a.m.
EAST TEXAS TEJANOS
Francis X. Gal6n, PhD
Assistant Professor of History
Texas A &M Universitv-San Antonio
10:50 a.m.
BREAK
11:15 a.m.
GOLIAD-VICTORIA TEJANOS
Craig H. Roell, PhD
Wells/Warren Professor of History
Georgia Southern University
2:05 p.m.
THE REVOLUTION AND THE LOWER VALLEY
Omar S. Valerio-Jimdnez, PhD
Associate Professor of History
University of Iowa
2:45
BREAK
3:15 p.m.
SEGUIN AND THE TEXAS REVOLUTION IN
PUBLIC MEMORY
]ames E. Crisp, PhD
Professor of History
North Carolina State University
4:00 p.m.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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Presenters
Rairl Ramos
Dr. Ramos, a Yale PhD, is associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in history at the University
of Houston. He authored Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861 (UNC
Press, 2003) and co-edit ed Recovering the Hispanic History of Texas (Houston Arte Ptiblico Press, 2010).
Francis X. Gal6n
Dr. Gal6n is visiting assistant professor of
A&M University in
San Antonio. He earned his PhD at
"The
Chirino Boys: Spanish Soldier-Pioneers from Los
Southern Methodist University and is the author of
Adaes on the Louisiana-Texas Borderlands, 1735-1792:'East Texas Historical Journal (2008).
Texas
Craig H. Roell
Dr. Roell is professor of history at Georgia Southern University, where he was named Warren Professor of
the Year in2002 and2013 and won awards for excellence in teaching and scholarship. His book, Matamoros
and the Texas Revolution, was published by the Texas State Historical Association (2013). Earliet TSHA
published his Remember Goliad!: A History of La Bahia.
|esris F. de la Teja
Dr. de la Teja, appointed the first-ever state historian of Texas, is Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies
and director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University. His most recent work is
the co-edited volume, Recollections of a Tejano Life: Antonio Menchaca in Texas History (U.T. Press,
2013). He is a consultant for the Texas State History Museum, book review editor of the Soufhwestern
Historical Quarterly, and co-moderator of the 2014 Symposium.
Omar W. Valeri
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-lim6nez
Dr. Valerio-|im6nez's talk keys off his book, River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande
Borderlands(DukeUniversityPress,20l3). Valerio-|im6nez,whosePhDisfromUCLA,isassociateprofessor
of history at the University of Iowa. He has written broadly on Latinos, the American West and borderlands.
|ames E. Crisp
Dr. Crisp is Symposium co-moderator and professor of history at North Carolina State University. His
booh Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett\ Last Stand and Other lu$steries of the Texas Revolution (Oxford
University Press, 2004), won the T R. Fehrenbach Award from the Texas Historical Commission. He
contributed chapters to both Raril Ramos'volume, Recovering the Hispanic History of Texas, and Frank de la
Tejis Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Tbxas.
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San |acinto Battleground Conserva".,
The San facinto Symposium is presented by the San Jacinto Battleground Conservancy, a Section 501(c)
(3) nonprofit organization with the mission to preserve, reclaim, and restore San facinto Battleground and
build greater public awareness and scholarship concerning the Battle of San |acinto. The Symposium offers
Certified Professional Education credits for teachers.
San facinto Symposium Committee
Board of Directors
David Brittain, Co-Chair
David Singleton, Co-Chair
fames Davis
fan DeVault, President
Cecil N. Jones, Vice President
David Brittain, Secretary
Lucy Martin, Treasurer
Gregg Dimmick
Charles Duke
Barbara Eaves
George S. Gayle,III
lo Frances Greenlaw
Joe Edd Nelson
David Singleton
Barbara Eaves
foe Goulding
Eva Goulding
Jo Frances Greenlaw
Will Haddock
Will Howard
Fred Kolflat
Graham Painter
Lisa Struthers
Wolfram Von-Maszewski
Loretta Williams
Donors & Sponsors
Advisors
Humanities Texas
state affiliate of the
National Endowment of the Humanities
Denton Bryant, Houston, TX
Kathleen M. Carter, San Antonio, TX
Chris E. Cookson, Houston, TX
|ames E. Crisp, Raleigh, NC
leffrey D. Dunn, Dallas, TX
Ann T. Hamilton, Houston, TX
Karen J. Hartnett, Houston, TX
Frank S. Hinnant, Houston, TX
f. C. Martin, Austin, TX
A. Lee Miller, Midland, TX
Graham Paintet Houston, TX
C. David Pomeroy, Asheville, NC
Ryan Weller, Houston, TX
The Summerlee Foundation
Texas State Historical Association
Center for the Study of the Southwest
at Texas State University
Manuel Hinojosa
Sarah Balinskas Fine Framing
Graphics Impression
The Lancaster Hotel
Cover
Art
Tejano Valiente
This frontier vaquero adventurer was well-prepared for military service in the province of Tejas. His skills
were honed by decades of fighting Indians. His clothing, constructed of suede and trimmed with fringes
inspired by plains warriors, suited his everyday use in the severe and unforgiving terrain. His Chinaco-style
short leather jacket, from his guerilla liberal days in Mexico during the War of Independence, was fancifully
embossed with plated nails, like the old buff-coats of feudal-freebooters. His leather calzoneras had rows of
buttons at the seams and slits at the cuffs for easy riding. Tanned bear-skin leggings protected his feet and
ankles.
He tucked his pistols into the waist band of his chamois-lined trousers; he slung his trusty carabina over his
shoulder and used his lasso to catch his horse in the morning. Strapped across his chest is a Coahuila serape
with a slit in the middle - he could throw it over his head during bad weather. In his left hand he carried a
I3-3l4" inch Bowie knife, standard issue for Sam Houston's troops.
His oilskin-covered sombrero shielded him from the hot sun and the torrential rains between April and
September.
Research and drawingby
McAllen architect Manuel Hinojosa