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Texas distorts its past – and Sam Houston's legacy – to defend Confederate monuments

  • Written by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Professor of History, Sam Houston State University
imageHuntsville reveres hometown hero Sam Houston. And he did not revere the Confederacy. Jimmy Henderson/flickr, CC BY-SA

At least 160 Confederate symbols were removed from public spaces across the United States in 2020, according to the the Southern Poverty Law Center. Even Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, has removed a statue of Gen....

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