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Texas Historical Commission Removes Books on Slavery and Race from Historic Sites
The Varner-Hogg plantation near Houston was a sugar plantation that was worked by sixty-six enslaved African Americans in the early 19th Century. It is a…
Texas Panel to Tell the State’s History Leaves Out Most of the Reconstruction Era (And a Lot About Slavery)
Texas Monthly reports on the whitewashing of Texas history by the states new 1836 Project. Last year the Texas legislature passed a bill establishing the…
New Website Tells Story of Millican Massacre in 1868 Texas
In the Summer of 1868 a massacre of freedpeople took place in Millican, Texas. Reports on the numbers killed vary widely, but all agree that…
More Than a Thousand Attend Unveiling of New Statue to Reconstruction Texas Senator
A new statue of Reconstruction legislator Matthew Gaines was unveiled at Texas A&M University on Saturday. Gaines had been enslaved at birth and was twenty…
Texas A&M Unveiling Statue of Black Reconstruction Sen. Matthew Gaines Whose Work Helped Found the School
Students at Texas A&M began the effort to create a memorial to State Senator Matthew Gaines all the way back in 1998. Gaines was enslaved…
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon Reed published by Liveright (2021) 151 pages. Juneteenth is now widely celebrated. In many places it is a holiday. It…
The Spread of “Juneteenth” in Reconstruction Era Texas
Juneteenth was not called “Juneteenth” the first time it was celebrated. It was called “Emancipation Day” or “Jubilee Day” in most early accounts. And while…
Tour of University of Texas Racial Geography, Emancipation, and The Lost Cause
The University of Texas now has a Racial Geography Tour of the famous campus in Austin. The tour can be explored in person or virtually…
Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Texas by Christopher B. Bean
Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Texas by Christopher B. Bean published by Fordham University Press (2016)…
Freedom After Slavery: The Black Experience and the Freedmen’s Bureau in Reconstruction Texas by Lavonne Jackson Leslie
Freedom After Slavery: The Black Experience and the Freedmen’s Bureau in Reconstruction Texas by Lavonne Jackson Leslie (2012) $26.95 Hardcover, $16.96 Paper, $3.99 Kindle. I…
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