Finding the Refusing to Forget project \”…and pouring over their postings afforded me more than an education, it afforded me the courage to continue to write, to speak about the injustices of the past…\”
A Traveling Exhibit As Testimony Read More »
Nicole Sintetos and Katie Vogel discuss the forthcoming student-centered curriculum, \”The Life of Jovita Idar.\”
First RTF Curriculum Nearly Complete Read More »
Team member Sonia Hernandez describes forthcoming Texas State Historical Markers that recognize history of anti-Mexican violence in Texas.
Towards a more inclusive public and official Texas history Read More »
Guest blogger George Diaz on Law Enforcement Legacies of 1910s Violence.
Author, Former San Diego Mayor, Describes New Novel and Continental Commemoration of Plan de San Diego.
Guest Blogger Miriam Villanueva on Plan de San Diego’s Legacies for South Texas Read More »
Historians Carrigan and Webb place 1910s violence in perspective.
Historians Carrigan and Webb Place 1910s violence in perspective Read More »
#OTD on January 1st, 1958, the University of Texas Press published Américo Paredes’ landmark book With His Pistol in His Hand, an examination of the life and legend of Gregorio Cortez, whose persecution by the Texas Rangers and other law enforcement made him a folk hero in the early 1900s. On June 12, 1901, sheriffs
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#OTD on January 8, 1865, Texas Confederate militiamen, including Texas Ranger captain N. M. Gillentine, attacked a large group of Kickapoo Indians camped on a tributary of the Conchos river about 25 miles southwest of where San Angelo, Texas is currently located. The Kickapoo being attacked were a large group of families, possibly as many
#OTD on January 10, 1915, Governor James “Pa” Ferguson began expanding the number of Texas Rangers as a response to “bandit incursions” at the Texas-Mexico border. At the start of the year there were around one dozen Rangers. By 1917 when Ferguson left office there were over 1,000. While Ferguson responded
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