The Texas Historical Commission has removed a number of books from the gift shops of two former slave plantations after a white, self-described “advocate for an honest portrayal of history” questioned ...

Around two-dozen books were removed from two plantation gift shops' offerings after the Texas Historical Commission received complaints that the titles were too focused on racism and white supremacy, ...

There’s a sad irony in a historical commission removing a book of slave remembrances, titled “Remembering the Days of Sorrow,” from a plantation’s gift shop. Yet that is one of 25 books, some about ...

WILSON COUNTY, Texas – Robin Muschalek said she often gets the same reaction when she tells someone that people were enslaved in Bexar County. “They’re shocked,” said Muschalek, co-owner of the ...

An archeological effort in Brazoria County has continued to uncover evidence that the culture of slaves and newly freed sharecroppers was much richer than previously imagined. The Levi Jordan ...

The Witte’s new CEO will launch Texas Museums 360, an inquiry-based science curriculum for Texas Schools. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Witte Museum San Antonio’s Witte Museum is exploring the dark history ...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — He couldn't read and he spent half his life in slavery. Once freed, though, Charlie Brown built a business domain in Brazoria County and eventually purchased the plantation ...

The blood-drenched history that gave the city of Sugar Land, Texas, its name showed its face earlier this year, when a school construction crew discovered the remains of 95 African-Americans whose ...

Months after a Texas school district broke ground on a new technical center, archaeologists there made a surprising discovery: the long-buried remains of 95 people. The first remains were discovered ...