Monica Muñoz Martinez

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

What is Texas? Should we even think about so large and diverse a place as having an essence that can be distilled?

Supporters of traditional narratives are fighting to keep their grip on the public imagination.

The West's history is full of stories of white Americans taking the law into their own hands to beat back nonwhite populations.

When the descendants of a 1918 massacre applied for a historical marker, they learned that not everyone wants to remember one of Texas’ darkest days.

In her groundbreaking new book, Monica Muñoz Martinez uncovers the legacy of a brutal past.

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

What a long-dead, cartoonishly corrupt Texas bureaucrat can tell us about the nature of immigration enforcement and the U.S.-Mexico divide.

The rise of tactical gun culture among civilians reveals a new front in the U.S. battle against nativist authoritarianism.

Many prisons, especially in the South, are named after racist officials and former plantations.

On the history of the second amendment, white militias, and border vigilantism.