Around two-dozen books were removed from two plantation gift shops' offerings after the Texas Historical Commission received complaints that the titles were too focused on racism and white supremacy, ...
It almost reads like satire: A white woman launches a crusade to rid plantation gift shops of books she deems inappropriate. Well, this is Texas in 2023, y’all. Not that much surprises us anymore.
There’s a sad irony in a historical commission removing a book of slave remembrances, titled “Remembering the Days of Sorrow,” from a plantation’s gift shop. Yet that is one of 25 books, some about ...
An archeological effort in Brazoria County has continued to uncover evidence that the culture of slaves and newly freed sharecroppers was much richer than previously imagined. The Levi Jordan ...
The blood-drenched history that gave the city of Sugar Land, Texas, its name showed its face earlier this year, when a school construction crew discovered the remains of 95 African-Americans whose ...
Months after a Texas school district broke ground on a new technical center, archaeologists there made a surprising discovery: the long-buried remains of 95 people. The first remains were discovered ...
The Witte’s new CEO will launch Texas Museums 360, an inquiry-based science curriculum for Texas Schools. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Witte Museum San Antonio’s Witte Museum is exploring the dark history ...
HOUSTON -- Book publishing giant McGraw-Hill is saying it will rewrite a textbook after a Pearland mother voiced concerns on YouTube about the portrayal of slaves as immigrant "workers" in her son's ...
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — He couldn't read and he spent half his life in slavery. Once freed, though, Charlie Brown built a business domain in Brazoria County and eventually purchased the plantation ...
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