History

House Bill 3979 is part of a national effort by red-state legislatures to ban or limit the teaching of critical race theory. That academic discipline examines how racism has shaped legal and social systems within the United States.

The founder of the Texas Freedom Colonies Project wants to "put the authority of the story of Black people's lives back in the hands of Black folks" by working with descendants to chronicle the stories of African-American settlements established just after the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas.

"We're making history about history."

Metz Elementary is one of the Austin ISD schools that will close at the end of this school year. A class of students at UT Austin created an online archive to document the school's more than 100-year history.

After decades of false starts, the Matthew Gaines Initiative student group raised $350,000 for Gaines' statue.

The group's self-proclaimed leader, Lolita Lebrón, was prepared to die for Puerto Rico's independence. She survived, and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

The oral history project weaves together numerous hours of interviews with Texas Latinos over the last year.

A professor points to a history of “white riot,” aimed at overturning democracy perceived to be in the interest of Black people.

"Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico" tells war stories of women in the 20th century and beyond, who became part of Mexico's "collective DNA."

A lot of painful things are dividing Americans in 2020. But Peniel Joseph with the LBJ School of Public Affairs says, "There's no time to be tired."