The Texas Center releases sprawling documentary series on Texas history

The Texas Center is rolling out “E Pluribus Texas,” an ambitious and sprawling documentary series that was produced over ...
The Middletown Press

Juneteenth, Jim Crow and how the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase history from the classroom

(THE CONVERSATION) The news was startling. On June 19, 1865, two months after the U.S. Civil War ended, Union Gen. Gordon Granger walked onto the balcony at Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and ...
Hyperallergic

Texas Schools Ban Lesson Over Exposed Nipple on Virginia Flag

“Nudity on a state flag is an absurd justification to censor a history lesson,” ACLU Staff Attorney Chloe Kempf told Hyperallergic. We needed a magnifying glass to find the offending nipple on ...
KSAT

State Board of Education OKs Texas-heavy social studies plan, setting stage for clash over history lessons

The State Board of Education voted Friday to approve a social studies plan that would teach more Texas history across school grades and deemphasize other subjects like world history, cultures and ...
Houston Chronicle

State education board rejects far-right push for more focus on Texas history, less world culture

The Republican-led State Board of Education rejected a proposal favored by conservative activists to overhaul the state’s social studies curriculum by requiring a heavier concentration of Texas ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press

Remember the Alamo? Lessons in Tennessee history are abundant at this historic Texas site

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — It took just 90 minutes for history to be made on March 6, 1836, when the Mexican army of Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna set out to reclaim the Alamo Mission in a bid to regain ...