HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: White Supremacy, High School High, New Deal Coalition
26 Oct 2016
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Texas history: modernization and war 1900 1930. Comparative perspective; theory to be tested; weighing evidence. Compare texas to mississippi and their trendlines. External forces, new patterns within the state. Go for pictures, newspapers different kinds of evidence. Culture a matter of degree and rate of change (confederate vet reunion illustrations) See a tipping point of texas and mississippi texas is different. All ways texas converged from a confederate past. You can measure when texas starts to celebrate holidays, the number of statues to a texas. Republic surpasses the number of statues to the confederate past, textbooks extend sections of the republic, texas flag/constitution begin to be celebrated, texas becomes more american and less confederate. Election of a female governor, women getting the right to vote in a democratic primary (1910- 1884 confederate veterans elevation of honor and bravery over acrimony and slavery agreement on white supremacy (2 jpg from 1884 proceedings of the association ex confed)
