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The Complex Legacy of the Texas Revolution
Not so long ago, the great British historian J.H. Plumb, in his famous book The Death of the Past, not only described the distinction between the past and history, but predicted that the increasingly rationalistic west would soon throw off …
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The Edge of Freedom–Review in Southwestern Historical Quarterly
NEW: By Bob Cavendish, from the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 115 (April, 2012): 428-429. The Edge of Freedom: A Fact-Based Novel of the Texas Revolution. By John Willingham. (Portland, Ore.: Inkwater Press, 2011. Pp. 404. Map, appendix. ISBN 9781592994465, 22.95 paper.) …