About
The #OTD in Ranger History campaign took place in 2023 to coincide with the Ranger Force’s claimed bicentennial. Several times a week, we posted information about Ranger actions on our website and in twitter threads. The posts drew on scholarship on the Rangers, violence, and historical memory. An example of the genre is George Diaz’s RTF blog post.
These posts show the important role of the Rangers not just in the racial violence of the 1910s (RTF’s focus) but their role over the larger course of Texas in maintaining white supremacy and crushing dissident political movements. They also highlight the Rangers as a subject of popular cultural productions like “Walker, Texas Ranger” and as subjects of public and scholarly debate for more than a century.
