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Characterizing San Antonio’s five Spanish colonial–era missions as “sites of memory,” author and historian Joel Daniel Kitchens explores how and why Spain built the missions, what happened to the missions after the Spanish colonizers left, and how and why the missions came to weigh so heavily in American imagination and identity, even into the twenty-first century.

While the Alamo figures prominently in these discussions, nonetheless all five missions collectively are an enduring and deeply rooted part of the city’s cultural legacy, as recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2015. This careful study aims to tease out the means and process by which the missions of San Antonio came to represent much more than the original religious and educational functions that began three centuries ago at what was then a remote site on the Spanish colonial frontier.

Incorporating deep research into Spanish Colonial documents, census data, travel narratives, advertisements by railroad companies, tourist guides, and even the buildings themselves, San Antonio and Its Missions: Three Centuries of History, Memory, and Heritage adds nuanced layers of understanding to the ways in which these buildings and the stories they embody continue to contribute to cultural and historical memory.  

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"Tapping a broad range of evidence across three centuries, Joel Kitchens presents a thoughtful and engaging analysis of what its five Franciscan missions have meant to the economic and cultural development of San Antonio and by extension Texas and the United States. San Antonio and Its Missions is a fresh and timely study that offers much food for thought on what shapes and defines our understanding of the places that we preserve and honor."J. Frank de la Teja, author of Faces of Béxar: Early San Antonio and Texas

"Kitchens has written what is to date the most sweeping and comprehensive examination of San Antonio's missions, arguably the most significant buildings to Texas history. Spanning three centuries, the book excavates the ways each generation brought the missions to their time, reflecting the region's changing cultural and political landscape. Kitchens's attentive eye draws from a myriad of sources including literature and architecture, as evidence for remembering the missions, including what eventually became famously known as the Alamo."Raúl A. Ramos, author of Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861

"Joel Kitchens's San Antonio and Its Missions is a fascinating and informative history of the rich cultural legacy of the one of the least understood cities in the United States and its Spanish mission system that dates back over three centuries. This excellent book explores the constant debate about how we remember these missions and why. From authors Oscar Wilde to Stephen Crane, from preservationists Adina de Zavala to Ethel Wilson Harris, from the Alamo to World Heritage Status, Dr. Kitchens's narrative engagingly tells the story of the historical legacy and continuing vitality of San Antonio's treasured missions."Carlos Kevin Blanton, editor of A Promising Problem: The New Chicana/o History

Joel Daniel Kitchens retired in 2021 as associate professor and humanities reference librarian at Texas A&M University and is the author of Librarians, Historians, and New Opportunities for Discourse: A Guide for Clios Helpers. He lives in College Station, Texas.