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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As Texas Rangers’ 2023 bicentennial approaches, debates around the Rangers’ legacy become urgent again.
Listen NowIt is time to address Ranger history thoroughly so the many wounds done to communities across Texas can finally be addressed.
Read NowHow does the Texas Rangers’ legacy as frontier lawmen affect the men and women who wear the badge today?
Listen NowAt the turn of the century, Mexican American publications paid a price for challenging the local sheriff and elements of the Texas Rangers.
Read NowThe truth is more nuanced, and more instructive, than the myth.
Read NowThe Texas Rangers face a reckoning at the Capitol—and go on to become pop-culture heroes.
Listen NowThe Mexican Revolution gave the Texas Rangers a new calling. But it also became the darkest chapter in Rangers history.
Listen NowThe historic partnership became pop-culture lore, but Texas’s broken promises to the tribe illustrated a different reality.
Read NowTexas’s elite police force has long played the hero in film and television, although the reality is far more complex.
Read NowFrom 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.
Listen NowOn 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.
Listen NowComing November 15, a tale of the Texas Rangers . . . and a battle for the soul of Texas.
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