Progress Denied: Hollie A. Teague: 9798898290023: Hardcover: United States - State & Local - Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)

Sometimes, history isn’t what it appears to be. For instance, in the early 1920s, a thriving Southern Black community was literally voted out of existence by local white citizens. The North Texa...

A UT-Austin historian tells the under-told story of Audley Moore, “one of the most important activists and theorists of the twentieth century.”

Mary Anne Pember, Pantheon Books (2025) $29USD, 292 pp. In this touching and informative book, journalist Mary Annette Pember beautifully weaves together 150 years of history with her own painful, insightful, and ultimately hopeful memoir. A quote by one of her interviewees - “powerlessness and low self-esteem are not part of our identity as Native people” (p. 229) - pretty much sums up Pember’s thesis, which she briskly proves in under 250 pages.

Jessica Pishko, Dutton Publishing (2024) $32 USD, 469 pp. A great book for people interested in current events and the state of American democracy, “The Highest Law in the Land” is a thoughtful investigation of the county sheriffs, which Pishko rightly identifies as “a gravely under-examined institution.” However, for readers looking to gain historical insight into the growth of police powers in American history, Pishko’s work will likely be underwhelming.

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Raunaq Alam has been in and out of jail five times in relation to anti-Israel graffiti on a Christian church. His lawyer says the case shows "how easily the government can roll back all of our civil r...

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Things were about to get worse for a middle-aged black strikebreaker named Fred Rouse. In December of 1921, the AMC union was on strike in the Fort Worth Stockyards. Fred had accepted work as a butcher while the white union members were out. Leaving work one day, he was "accosted" by two white brothers, Tom and Tracy Maclin. No one’s quite sure what they said to him, but whatever it was, he didn’t like it.

Fort Worth calls itself “Where the West Begins,” but it’s also just about as Southern as any place can be. White supremacists in the city “often wore two hats: the ten-gallon variety as well as the white hood of the Invisible Empire ,” according to historian Neil Foley. Some say Texas isn’t really part of the South, but I agree with local historian Michael Phillips who said the southernness of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex “could be measured by the length of a hangman’s rope.” It doesn’t take too much digging to unearth those…

Fort Worth calls itself “Where the West Begins,” but it’s also just about as Southern as any place can be. White supremacists in the city “often wore two hats: the ten-gallon variety as well as the white hood of the Invisible Empire ,” according to historian Neil Foley. Some say Texas isn’t really part of the South, but I agree with local historian Michael Phillips who said the southernness of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex “could be measured by the length of a hangman’s rope.” It doesn’t take too much digging to unearth those…

Oklahoma's new "America First" teacher certification test will require educators from California and New York to agree with conservative curriculum.

Punishments, injuries, and deaths—including from heat—on TDCJ farms are more hidden than they were in the years following convict leasing.

Progress Denied: Quakertown, White Supremacy, and the Illusion of Democracy in Denton, Texas, 1850-1925 Available for purchase Spring 2026 (University of North Texas Press) About the book Sometimes…

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