Texas

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• SOURCE: Chalkbeat
  1/6/2022
  

  A Texas Charter School is Caught in the Critical Race Theory Storm

  By flagging the school's application for reference to historian Ibram X. Kendi, the state's actions suggest that Texas is going beyond the text of recent legislation to suppress controversial ideas. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/10/2021
  

  In Texas, Battle is on Over Books

  "To talk with a dozen teachers and librarians is to hear annoyance and frustration and bewilderment, as much with the sheer ambiguity of the new law and the list of books as with the practical effect."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/14/2021
  

  When the Voter Fraud Myth Comes for You

  Sustaining the "big lie" that Trump was robbed of re-election requires small lies, including investigating and prosecuting individuals to sustain the myth of widespread cheating. This explains Texas's prosecution of Crystal Mason for casting a provisional ballot that was never even counted. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/8/2021
  

  10 Books Texas Doesn't Want You to Read

  "The subjectivity involved in defining inappropriate, obscene, or distressing—and the danger of politicizing such definitions—is at the center of Krause’s challenge, and it shows in the books on his ban list."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  12/8/2021
  

  Texas is Making Critical Race Theory a Monster Under the Bed

  by Jennifer Hobson Gormer

  It's clear that the motive for Texas's law restricting how the subject of American racism is taught is to cast doubt on the legitimacy of present-day protests against inequality. 

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• 11/21/2021
  

  The Accident that Almost Decapitated the US Government

  by Stan Haynes

  John Tyler intended to show off the firepower of the USS Princeton to boost his abysmal popularity and scare foreign goverments into letting him annex Texas. He nearly got more than he bargained for in one of the biggest close calls of presidential history. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  11/15/2021
  

  Texas Principal Officially Fired in CRT Controversy

  The first Black principal of Colleyville Heritage High School in Grapevine, Texas, has lost his job after months of allegations that he was pushing critical race theory on students. 

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• SOURCE: Dallas Morning News
  11/8/2021
  

  Will Texas Legislature Repeat 1962 Hearings on What Schoolkids Read?

  Texas’ House Textbook Investigating Committee held hearings across the state in 1962, which were suddenly halted after they became so rancorous and the lawmakers received threats.

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• SOURCE: KUT
  10/28/2021
  

  Structural Racism Hinders Efforts to Preserve History of Texas "Freedom Colonies"

  Dr. Andrea Roberts of the Texas Freedom Colonies Project says that the history of Black settlements during Reconstruction and Jim Crow is hindered by rules about what sites qualify as "historic."  

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  10/26/2021
  

  Texas House Committee to Schools: Tell Us What Books You Have on Race and Sexuality

  Republican Matt Krause, who is running for state Attorney General, intends to ask school districts about whether they carry copies of about 850 books dealing with racism and sexuality. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  10/20/2021
  

  State Laws Mandating "Opposing Viewpoints" Corrupt the Teaching of History

  by Jacqueline Jones and James Grossman

  "The vague wording of SB3 not only creates absurd situations that require teachers to figure out how to offer “opposing viewpoints” on slavery, but also gives license to parents and administrators looking to challenge the teaching of incontrovertible facts relating to controversial issues."

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  10/17/2021
  

  Phil Collins Sets Off a New Battle Over the Alamo

  The singer's gift of his artifact collection has reignited controversy about how the events of 1836 should be commemorated in the state's complex history. 

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• SOURCE: KSAT
  10/13/2021
  

  Historian: At 100th Anniversary, the Origins of LULAC are in San Antonio

  Cynthia Orozco, Ph.D, professor of history and humanities at Eastern New Mexico University, will discuss how Order Sons of America led to the creation of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation’s oldest and largest Hispanic civil rights organization.

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• SOURCE: Blue Book Diaries
  10/14/2021
  

  A Texas Administrator Didn't "Both Sides" the Holocaust; She Acknowledged the Legal Jeopardy Facing Teachers Under a Bad Law

  by Jonathan Wilson

  Texas's new curriculum law opens the door to politically-driven attacks on teachers from any number of political positions; a curriculum director's recorded advice to teachers shouldn't be shocking because it reflects this reality. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  10/14/2021
  

  Texas School Administrator Uses Holocaust as Example of Including "Opposing" Views

  The advice illustrates the predicament of Texas teachers, who are concerned about being punished over any possible political objection to the content of their teaching or the books in their classrooms. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  10/14/2021
  

  Critical Race Fury: The School Board Wars Are Getting Nasty in Texas

  "The threat the loud and the angry pose isn’t necessarily that they win outright but that they tire others out—that they make public service too burdensome, too painful, too tedious."

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• SOURCE: Texas Observer
  9/28/2021
  

  Prof. Leonard N. Moore on Teaching Black History to White People

  Professor Leonard Moore's new book insists that white people who hope to know more about Black history should begin by understanding more about the challenges faced by Black historians. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/26/2021
  

  Frances "Sissy" Farenthold, Texas Liberal Lodestar, Dies at 94

  “She was a tremendous inspiration to women of my generation, who saw her branch out and do things that we were not sure were possible,” said Mary Beth Rogers, who had volunteered on Ms. Farenthold’s campaigns and two decades later served as chief of staff to Texas Gov. Ann Richards (D).

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  9/23/2021
  

  Peering Into Windows and Wombs: Reflections on SB 8

  by Gillian Frank

  "Even as abortion opponents loudly proclaim they are acting by divine mandate, people of faith like Dr. Curtis Boyd remain on the frontlines of this battle for reproductive healthcare."

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  9/21/2021
  

  Military Historians Divided over Boycotting Texas for Conference

  The Society for Military History has planned its annual conference for Texas next spring. The state's radical new abortion law has prompted some members to call for moving the event, and sparked debate over what constitutes political neutrality for the organization.