History is most trustworthy when all voices in the chorus are heard. Fewer Black, brown or white Texans know the lifestyles of the people enslaved on plantations, in towns and in cities, or how they ...

Texas parents and historians say a new state curriculum's lessons on the country's history of slavery, racism and civil rights omit key context. The teaching materials are currently under review.

SAN ANTONIO – The Witte Museum has announced “Ode to Juneteenth: Slavery in Texas” as the theme for its eighth annual Conference on Texas. The theme is a timely topic that resonates nationally, ...

Bad Takes is a column of opinion and analysis. “I still very precisely know the moment when I discovered the atrocities my tribe had conducted,” German philosopher Thomas Metzinger said in a podcast ...

Enslaved people already had been freed two-and-a-half years earlier, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, according to PBS. So freedom arrived on June ...

The state attracted national attention in 2015 when it was revealed that a social studies book had been approved that described enslaved persons from the African continent as “workers.” A working ...

Among the larger-than-life people in Texas history, only one can claim the title “Father of Texas”: Stephen F. Austin, the Virginia-born businessman who reluctantly accepted his father’s dying wishes ...

Faith and courage are often not far apart. It often takes a mixture of both to weather the scorn of those who may disagree or to say something important knowing that it may be unpopular. The history ...

A new Texas curriculum seeks to captivate first-grade students with a lesson on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s historic estate long revered for its French neoclassical architecture and as a symbol of ...

How Texas schools teach U.S. history to children has been the focus of intense political conflict in recent years. The state passed legislation in 2021 making it illegal for schools to teach slavery ...