83-Year-Old History Buff Takes on Professors Over How History Will Be Taught to Students
Just like the struggle occurring over American history, a similar battle is brewing over how Texas history will be taught, pitting politically aligned history professors against an 83-year-old history buff.
The professors have indicated students of Texas history should understand that Texas has a white supremacist past and has all but ignored racism and slavery, according to scholarly sites and articles to which some have contributed.
J.P. Bryan, Jr., a retired oilman with a love of Texas history, believes that’s a “radical” revisionist view that doesn’t tell a balanced story of the accomplishments and failures of all Texans, including Anglos….