WEST COLUMBIA — Back in February, during a break from a winter reading retreat at a beach on the Texas coast, I traveled inland to tour an old plantation. I knew that I would encounter uncomfortable ...

WEST COLUMBIA - Two old plantation homes, one formerly considered the crown jewel of Texas historical parks and the other called an African-American Pompeii, illustrate what lack of funding is doing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Texas Historical Commission has removed a number of books from the gift shops of two former slave plantations after a white, ...

It almost reads like satire: A white woman launches a crusade to rid plantation gift shops of books she deems inappropriate. Well, this is Texas in 2023, y’all. Not that much surprises us anymore.

Texas’s prison system from the end of the Civil War to the 1980s used perhaps one of the clearest continuances of slavery, the prison plantation system. Prisoners were used for agricultural work and ...

WASHINGTON-ON-THE-BRAZOS — The highlight of my overnight Texas history trip to Washington-on-the Brazos and nearby Brenham was a “living history farm,” the Barrington Plantation at Washington, which ...

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 ...