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Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersThis article is part of our October 2019 cover package on the battle to rewrite Texas history. Read more .These corrections to the historical record are the result of decades of work by historians who, over the last half-century, have fought against their profession’s old guard and, at least within the halls of academia, won. Most history professors at state universities look well beyond the subjects that dominate popular histories:&nbsp;military campaigns, the Texas Revolution, the Wild West. For years, they’ve focused on social and cultural histories&nbsp;detailing how ordinary people lived and tracing the subtle forces that shape places and people over generations.Violence in Texas, a recently published book aboutBut for all these academics’ self-doubt, there are signs that change—however slow, contested, and incremental—is happening. That’s why so many defenders of the Confederate States of America showed up to defeat Jacob Hale. The myth of the Lost Cause is gradually profile battles over Confederate statuary demonstrate. Valorization of the Confederacy is itself a revisionist history that must be constantly nourished and renewed, or it will wither. Like Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg, it’s an uphill battle.Somewhat less controversial—though not universally so—is the effort to establish new monuments and memorials. “A friend and I were at Goliad in April,” TCU’s Sharpless said of a recent visit to one of the key sites of the Texas Revolution. “There’s a new marker and a statue of a Mexican woman who helped some of the Texas soldiers escape the massacre, [surrounded by a plaza maintained by the woman’s descendants]. You see this, and you realize that it’s happening at the ground level too. It’s not just us liberal academics. I think more people are saying, ‘Yeah, let’s look at the whole picture.’ ”This article originally appeared in the October 2019 issue of&nbsp;Texas Monthly&nbsp;with the headline “Battling Over the Past.”&nbsp;.ByByByByByByGet our weekly newsletter.ByByByandByByByByByByBy

Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersThis article is part of our October 2019 cover package on the battle to rewrite Texas history. Read more .These corrections to the historical record are the result of decades of work by historians who, over the last half-century, have fought against their profession’s old guard and, at least within the halls of academia, won. Most history professors at state universities look well beyond the subjects that dominate popular histories:&nbsp;military campaigns, the Texas Revolution, the Wild West. For years, they’ve focused on social and cultural...

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