Event Description
A reception will be hosted at 6:00 pm before the film screening. A question-and-answer session with film director William E. Millet and film consultant Félix Diaz Almaráz will follow the showing.
Synopsis
“Texas Before the Alamo” is about the true founders of modern Texas: the Spanish soldiers and priests who established missions, presidios, ranchos, and villas to guard against French intrusion into Spain’s northern province. 120 minutes. English.
Cosponsors
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the Chicano-Latino Studies Program, the Department of History, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.