Texas history

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• SOURCE: KERA
  9/26/2022
  

  Historians Evaluate the "1836 Project" Pamphlet Texas Wants to Give to All Drivers License Applicants

  Historians concur that while the task of condensing the state's history into a dozen pages is a difficult task, the choices made by the state commission aim at preserving patriotic myths favored by the right. 

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• 11/14/2021
  

  What "Forget the Alamo" Forgets

  by James W. Russell

  "Forget the Alamo" is ultimately constrained by American unwillingness to fully deal with the reality that the US forcibly stole Texas and the southwest from Mexico.

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• SOURCE: KUT
  11/9/2021
  

  "Civil Rights in Black and Brown" Examines Texas's Forgotten Activists

  Todd Moye and Max Krochmal's history of multiracial Texas activism grew out of oral history projects with their students; they realized how much of the grassroots history of civil rights struggle in the state could be lost if it weren't recorded. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  9/30/2021
  

  Monica Muñoz Martinez Is Setting the Record Straight on Texas’s History of Border Violence

  "As a historian, when I’m researching these events of racist violence that have not been documented, I don’t know what is going to happen or what the outcome will be. It is really hard to read newspaper articles that celebrate violence."

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  9/14/2021
  

  Why Democrats are Losing Texas Latinos

  A significant portion of Tejanos consider themselves white and many vote like Anglo Texans; their history shows the contingency of racial categories and the risk for Democrats of assuming demographics will substitute for political appeal. 

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• 8/1/2021
  

  "Forget the Alamo" Synthesizes Revisionist Scholarship for Today's History Wars

  by James Thornton Harris

  Academics have long understood Texas's heroic founding myths centered on the Alamo to be cover stories for the cause of slavery and white supremacy, but they've been tenacious parts of the state's culture. A new book joins the battle as state leaders dig in to defend those myths. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/13/2021
  

  'The Myth Itself Becomes a Stand-in.' What Can the Alamo's History Teach Us About Teaching History?

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Historian Raúl A. Ramos discusses the way that the myth of the Alamo has supplanted the real history, and how new state laws stand in the way of the teaching that a multiethnic Texas needs. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/5/2021
  

  Texas Republicans Rush to Guard the Alamo from the Facts

  by Jason Stanford

  "The Alamo myth leaves much out, most notably that Texians opposed Mexican laws that would free the enslaved workers they needed to farm cotton."

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  6/29/2021
  

  The Resurrection of Bass Reeves: Was the Real "Lone Ranger" Black?

  Only recently has popular culture revived interest in Bass Reeves, one of the first Black men to serve as a US Marshal, and the scourge of Texas fugitives. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/11/2021
  

  The 1836 Project Is an Opportunity

  by Brian Franklin

  Texas history teachers should take Governor Greg Abbott at his word, and teach the state's history from its founding documents. The governor and conservative supporters of a new law on teaching history might not like the results, though. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/9/2021
  

  We've Been Telling the Alamo Story Wrong for Nearly 200 Years. Now It's Time to Correct the Record

  by Bryan Burrough and Jason Stanford

  "Imagine if the U.S. were to open interior Alaska for colonization and, for whatever reason, thousands of Canadian settlers poured in, establishing their own towns, hockey rinks and Tim Hortons stores."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/9/2021
  

  A Texas Bill Drew Ire for Saying it Would Preserve ‘Purity of the Ballot Box.’ Here’s the Phrase’s History

  Texas legislation invoked the "purity of the ballot box," a phrase critics argued harkened back to the era of Jim Crow and the White Primary. Historians say the phrase itself is obscure but the idea that white Texans are the preferred voting citizens has a long history in the state. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/26/2021
  

  In the U.S, Praise for Anglo-Saxon Heritage has Always Been about White Supremacy

  by L.D. Burnett

  Labeling American political institutions as "Anglo Saxon heritage" reveals the ugly strain of thought that holds only some ethnic groups are congenitally capable of participating in citizenship. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/12/19
  

  When Texas was the national leader in gun control

  by Brennan Gardner Rivas

  How the land of gunslinger mythology regulated weapons to reduce violence