Forging Texas tells the story of Texas and the people who made it. It begins with the Texas Revolution, from Gonzales to Goliad to San Jacinto, and goes on to include lesser-known chapters like the first woman to lead a cattle drive up the Chisholm Trail and the Vietnamese migration to Texas in the 1970s. The thread running through all of it is that Texas is an extension of America’s founding.
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More than a history lesson, the project is a stake in the culture. It holds that a free people has to know its own story to defend it, and it uses film and storytelling to reach an audience that policy papers rarely touch. Below you’ll find the Forging Texas films and the writing around them.