Texas history

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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