December 13, 2022
White Hats, Episode 6: Memorials and Monuments
As Texas Rangers’ 2023 bicentennial approaches, debates around the Rangers’ legacy become urgent again.
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December 7, 2022
Opinion: The Texas Rangers Bicentennial Is a Time to Reflect, Not Celebrate Mythology
It is time to address Ranger history thoroughly so the many wounds done to communities across Texas can finally be addressed.
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December 6, 2022
White Hats, Episode 5: Bias Toward Action
How does the Texas Rangers’ legacy as frontier lawmen affect the men and women who wear the badge today?
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December 1, 2022
Who Owns the Narrative? Texas Law Enforcement Versus Tejano Journalists
At the turn of the century, Mexican American publications paid a price for challenging the local sheriff and elements of the Texas Rangers.
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November 29, 2022
Delve Deeper Into the Violent, Complex History of the Texas Rangers With These Eleven Stories
The truth is more nuanced, and more instructive, than the myth.
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November 29, 2022
White Hats, Episode 4: The Cold Case
The Texas Rangers face a reckoning at the Capitol—and go on to become pop-culture heroes.
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November 22, 2022
White Hats, Episode 3: La Hora de Sangre
The Mexican Revolution gave the Texas Rangers a new calling. But it also became the darkest chapter in Rangers history.
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November 16, 2022
The Friendship That Inspired a Myth: Texas Ranger Jack Coffee Hays and Lipan Apache Chief Flacco
The historic partnership became pop-culture lore, but Texas’s broken promises to the tribe illustrated a different reality.
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November 16, 2022
Walkers and Lone Rangers: How Pop Culture Shaped the Texas Rangers Mythology
Texas’s elite police force has long played the hero in film and television, although the reality is far more complex.
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November 15, 2022
‘White Hats,’ Episode 2: Ghosts of the Wild West
From Enchanted Rock to Fort Parker to the Guadalupe Mountains, we trace three early Ranger legends that mean very different things depending on whose history you claim as your own.
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November 15, 2022
‘White Hats,’ Episode 1: Rangers and ‘Rinches’
On the first episode of ‘White Hats,’ we visit the museum that tells the Rangers’ official history, then drive to South Texas to hear about efforts to bring other perspectives into the mainstream.
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November 10, 2022
Announcing Our New Podcast, ‘White Hats’
Coming November 15, a tale of the Texas Rangers . . . and a battle for the soul of Texas.
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