July 2022

A group of Texas educators have proposed to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery should be taught as “involuntary relocation” during second grade social studies instruction. The group of nine educators, including a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is one of many such groups advising the state education board to make curriculum change requests.

The twentieth century became the great age for the battleship as navies around the world raced to build the most powerful vessels on the seas. As the United States established itself as a world power, the nation was determined to show the strength of its own navy. As a result, the Battleship USS Texas, designated BB-35, was built as the second vessel named for the state by the US Navy.

The Bryan County Genealogy Library and Archives is happy to promote the continuing celebration of Caddo’s history with this announcement written by Vesta Baker of the Caddo Sesquicentennial Committee:

Amid the sea of maroon and white caps at the 2022 Sherman High School graduation, two navy blue caps stood out. At the podium, SHS Principal Jenifer Politi gestured for them to stand.

Denison High School continues to rank among the best high schools in the nation, this time for the 17th year in a row, according to the highly respected U.S. News and World Report’s recently released data on the quality of education in America’s high schools.

North Texans will soon be able to watch a movie shot on Lake Texoma by a Sherman High graduate. Sherman High School Class of 2000 graduate Mark Scheibmeir and some friends shot the full-length horror film on lake Texoma in 2021.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later.