![]() ![]() I had the experience as a six-year-old of integrating our town’s schools, it made me think about why that was a big deal. I was born in Livingston, Texas, which was segregated, and then when I was about six months old, moved to Conroy, Texas, where I grew up. ![]() I began life in a town that was still segregated. “Growing up in Texas made me think about the past because the results of the past, the legacies of the past, were all around me. How growing up in Texas influenced her work as a historian: You have to know as near the truth as possible about how things got started to help get your bearings and understand where you might go in the future.” And if you have an origin story that doesn’t get it right, or leaves out significant parts, there’s a danger that you may have certain misunderstandings about the place that you are considering or even yourself. She continued, “Just think about the mountains of books about the founding generation of America and what they mean to us, how we should view, the battle over how we should view them, and the same holds true for Texas as well. I think that it is true to a great extent, but we can always go in a different direction.but we look to that to have our bearings of our own personalities and the country does that as well,” said Gordon-Reed. ![]() We think that that is a part of our basic identity. Thinking about where we came from gives us some sense of who we are. ![]()
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