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Feb 03, 2016
Have You Ever Wondered Why Texas Is Different From All The Other States?
2 of 2 found this helpful State histories are rarely taught in schools anymore, and when they are, they tend to focus on state where the school is located. This is the story of how Texas still managed to become a separate country before it became a state (and why Texas still acts like a separate country more than it acts like one of the states).
This provides a quick and gritty history of Texas that is essentially correct (the big topics - some of the small things and story lines are made up so the storyline will hold peoples attentions.
The Alamo has fallen. TEXAS RISING shows what happens when three completely different Civilizations run into each other. The Texan/Texicanos/Texicans/Texians/etc. (comprised primarily of northern European descendants with their ancestors history and notionss of freedom's struggles), The Mexicans (newly created and trying to control the lands of Spain, which they claimed as their own when they finally broke away from Spain) and the Comanche Indians (the next planned series is called: COMANCHE). All three groups have competing interests. Both Mexicans and the Texas crowd claim they are doing this for freedom of their people (check out Lincoln's pre-civil war speech when he speaks of Liberty and Tyranny, when both sides used the phrase but each had a completely different meaning attached to the phrase).
And on the edge: The United States of America and it's President: Andrew Jackson. Jackson wanted to follow Jefferson's idea that the United States should span coast to coast - from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Texas is in the middle of that.
Additionally it very clearly explains the origins of: The Texas Rangers (originally the group who did "rangering" (i.e.: scouting)) and why A Woman (The Yellow Rose Of Texas) helped create Texas and but for her actions Texas would probably not exist.
3 DVDs. 6 episodes. I watched it on cable, and then bought the DVD.