The Past is Present

A New History of Old Texas

Brandon Seale

Education, The Alamo, Cabeza De Vaca, Gutierrez-magee, History, Battle Of Medina, Courses, San Antonio, Texas, Apaches, Arts, San Antonio Missions, Philosophy, Comanches, Mexico, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 May 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The past lives in San Antonio. Selected Bibliography Alessio Robles, Vito. Coahuila y Texas en la época colonial (1978). De La Teja, Jesús F., ed. A Revolution Remembered: The Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguín (2002). De la Teja, Jesús F. San Antonio de Béxar: A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier (1996). De Zavala, Lorenzo. Journey to the United States of North America: Viaje a los Estados Unidos del Norte de América. Michael Woo...

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0:00.0	Welcome to a new history of old San Antonio.
0:13.0	Episode 22, San Antonio is stuck in the past.
0:16.8	I'm Brandon Seale.
0:19.9	I'm a city, San Antonio.
0:23.0	Tonight I'm looking at your lovely life.
0:28.7	San Antonio is falling behind.
0:31.1	Incomes are growing, and yet per capita wealth is only a fraction of other similar-sized
0:34.6	American cities.
0:36.3	San Antonio boasts some of the oldest public schools
0:38.0	in the state, if not the continent, and yet enrollment flounders and literacy lags. While other cities
0:43.3	like New Orleans and San Francisco have been able to carefully package their history while
0:46.7	cultivating a distinctly modern and global image, San Antonio's remain a, quote, ragged band of men of all
0:52.0	colors, end quote, proud, it seems, of their own
0:54.2	provincialism.
0:55.8	Sure, people keep moving here, but for how much longer, when neighboring cities, like Austin and
1:00.2	Houston, seem to have so much more to offer to the kind of people that think seriously
1:03.5	about these things?
1:05.1	The Express News said it best, quote, only the snort of the iron horse can save us from
1:09.6	barbarism, end quote.
1:12.0	And so on February 16th, 1877, 8,000 San Antonioans, half the town turned out to celebrate the
1:18.4	arrival of the railroad with a party that lasted for two days straight.
1:22.3	Even Spurs' championship parades today don't turn out such a high proportion of the population,
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