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1836 Project promotes sanitized version of Texas history, experts say

The Texas Tribune reviewed the 15-page document, which will be handed out to new drivers, and asked historians to comment on how accurately and thoroughly it chronicles the state’s history.

The Texas and U.S. flag wave in the wind outside of the John Reagan State Office building on Jan. 15, 2020.

Early settlements

Oil, not cotton

The Alamo

Slavery

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