Benjamin Heber Johnson

Texas might have been a place to start a conversation about widening the scope of civil liberties, but it has also been a place where those liberties end.

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

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

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