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The origins of Texas’s proud independent streak Tucker C. Toole © Photograph by Interim Archives, Getty Illustration showing Mexican Army troops attacking and scaling the walls of the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas, March 6, 1836. Published in Shinn's History of the American People, 1899. When Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced an end to the state’s mask mandate and other coronavirus restrictions on March 2, he drew criticism from across the nation and from leaders in several Texas cities. But Abbott also was making a point about Texans’ legendary tendency to go their ow...

Illuminating the Whole American Idea Jeffrey Goldberg This article was published online on February 9, 2021. In 1862, an abolitionist from Philadelphia named Charlotte Forten decided to go south to the Sea Islands of South Carolina. She was taking up an important mission: teaching Black children, newly liberated by the Union Army, how to read. Two years later, she would describe for readers of The Atlantic the exhilaration she felt as she traveled to her post. © Provided by The Atlantic Charlotte Forten (Interim Archives / Getty) “We thought how easy it would be for a ba...