Texas history 
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1/29/2023
Latino Activists Changed San Antonio in the 1960s
by Ricardo Romo
San Antonio in the 1960s faced many of the same challenges of cities throughout the South; its emerging Mexican American political leadership helped steer the city in a progressive direction.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
12/8/2022
Review: Gerald Horne on the Long and Continuous American Counter-Revolution
by David Waldstreicher
Gerald Horne's radical revision of North American history puts the Texas "counterrevolution" of 1836 at the center of a long history of battles against greater equality and more widespread freedom.
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SOURCE: NBC News
12/2/2022
Texas Prof Wins John Lewis Award for Work Recovering History of Anti-Mexican Border Violence
Trinidad Gonzalez of South Texas College discovered his own family's connection to "la Matanza," the killing of several hundred ethnic Mexicans in the Rio Grande Valley in 1915, while researching the broader history of racist violence along the Texas-Mexico border.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
11/21/2022
New Evidence about Texas's Porvenir Massacre
Texas Rangers orchestrated the killing of 15 unarmed Mexican men and boys in a Texas border town in 1918. Monica Muñoz Martinez describes this as part of a pattern of state-sanctioned racist violence in the state, which her organization Refusing to Forget is working to commemorate.
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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
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