Articles tagged: confederacy
A Texas Agency is Defending the Confederacy
As cities and counties across the state try to take down their Confederate memorials, the Texas Historical Commission keeps making their job harder.
In 1908, the Texas chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy built a 15-bedroom mansion in Austin’s leafy Hyde Park neighborhood, a mile north of the...Read More
The Ghosts of Jefferson
This East Texas tourist town calls itself “the most haunted town in Texas,” but its whitewashed ghost stories elide a complex racial history.
This East Texas tourist town has an economy built on nostalgia tourism, but its whitewashed ghost stories elide a complex racial history. * by Asher Elbein Octo...Read More
Texas Republicans’ Push for a Religious ‘License to Discriminate’ is Depressingly Familiar
Today’s targets of religious discrimination are members of the LGBTQ community. Not long ago they were African Americans and women.
One of the landmark constitutional questions of our day is being fought at the Texas Capitol: Does the right to religious freedom give people license to discr...Read More
Cruz’s Reaction to ‘New Jim Crow’ Comments Ignores the Racist Roots of Mass Incarceration
O’Rourke talks racial disparities in the justice system; Cruz goes nuclear and embraces the politics of policing, revealing an aversion to confronting our dark past.
Several minutes into his first televised showdown with Beto O’Rourke on Friday, Senator Ted Cruz dove into a controversy that had dominated right-wing media, ...Read More
Hundreds Clash over Confederate Monument in San Antonio
“At any type of rally we hold, we always encourage people to bring their rifles,” said an organizer with a group that defends Confederate monuments.
About 500 people converged on a San Antonio park in the blistering heat Saturday — some to call for the removal of a 118-year-old Confederate monument and oth...Read More
Texas State Quietly Removes Confederate Monument
A university spokesman described the granite Jefferson Davis monument as "not an appropriate monument for a modern Texas university."...Read More
Will Georgetown’s ‘Old South Ball’ Rise Again?
The organizer of Georgetown's "Old South Ball" doesn't seem to have paid much heed to protesters who said the Civil War-themed party glorified slavery....Read More
After Decades of Debate, UT-Austin Finally to Move Confederate Statue
After decades of controversy surrounding four bronze statues of Confederate leaders at the University of Texas at Austin, President Gregory Fenves has decided t...Read More
The Hidden Confederate History of the Texas Capitol: An Unofficial Guide
A visitor to the Capitol gleans a particular story of Texas from the monuments and plaques: one that celebrates the state’s involvement in the Civil War and o...Read More