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Benjamin Heber Johnson

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Bureaucrats as Activists: A Revisionist Take on Conservation

Career bureaucrats in the Trump administration are proving that bureaucrats can be dedicated to a cause other than themselves.

by Benjamin Heber Johnson via Process: A Blog for American History on May 23, 2017

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America’s Lost History of Border Violence

Texas Rangers and vigilantes killed thousands of Mexican-Americans in a campaign of terror. Will Texas acknowledge the bloodshed?

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 5, 2016

Inside Bryan's Museum, with a mannequin dressed as a Texas Ranger.

Those Who Don't Know the Past…

The outcome of a fight to control a nonprofit group could shape the teaching of history in Texas.

by Josephine Lee via The Texas Observer on May 15, 2023

Bullets from the site of the 1918 massacre in Porvenir, Texas.

A Century Later, Historians Revisit a Texas Massacre

After Texas Rangers and ranchers shot 15 unarmed men and boys in 1918, Porvenir killings were largely forgotten.

by Adolfo Flores via The Wall Street Journal on November 21, 2022

A still from a film western depicting a fictionalized version of volunteers at the Alamo.

What a 1950s Texas Textbook Can Teach Us About Today's Textbook Fight

Texas education officials have preliminarily voted to reject a Mexican-American history textbook that scholars have said was riddled with inaccuracies.

by Nathan Bernier via KUT 90.5 on November 16, 2016

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