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    OVERTIME AT THE HISTORY WORKS

    Jul 21, 2020 4 minutes
    BY RICHARD ERNSBERGER JR.

    Besides being Summerlee Foundation Chair in Texas History at The University of Texas, Austin, Walter L. Buenger is chief historian for the Texas State Historical Association. Buenger, who earned a Ph.D. from Rice University, has written or co-written four books. He is writing a re-conceptualization of Texas and the Southwest, working title Texas Since 1810: Border Crossings and Shifting Identities over Time.

    To a degree that should make any historian uncomfortable, politics remains at the heart of decisions as to what should and should not go in textbooks and be emphasized in public school classrooms. The most revealing issue

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