{"id":2016315,"date":"2023-08-30T01:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T05:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-historical-society-board-members-resign-averting-court-trial-amid-dispute-over-how-state-history-is-taught\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T01:43:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T05:43:52","slug":"texas-historical-society-board-members-resign-averting-court-trial-amid-dispute-over-how-state-history-is-taught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-historical-society-board-members-resign-averting-court-trial-amid-dispute-over-how-state-history-is-taught\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Historical Society Board Members Resign, Avoiding Court Trial in History Teaching Dispute."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-historical-society-board-members-resign-averting-court-trial-amid-dispute-over-how-state-history-is-taught%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2016315&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Texas State Historical Association Resolves Dispute \u2062Over Board Balance<\/h2>\n<p>The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)\u2064 has reached a \u2063resolution in\u200b a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-city-declares-itself-a-sanctuary-for-the-unborn-after-ballot-initiative\/\" title=\"Texas City Declares Itself a Sanctuary for the Unborn After Ballot Initiative\">contentious legal battle<\/a> by agreeing to make significant changes to its board. The\u2062 association&#8217;s president and secretary have agreed to resign, avoiding a potential court trial.<\/p>\n<p>The TSHA, founded in 1897, is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-historical-society-board-members-resign-averting-court-trial-amid-dispute-over-how-state-history-is-taught\/\" title=\"Texas Historical Society Board Members Resign, Avoiding Court Trial in History Teaching Dispute.\">nonprofit educational organization dedicated<\/a> to documenting the history of Texas. Its board, consisting of academics \u200cand non-academics, plays a crucial role in shaping the state&#8217;s history curriculum and publications.<\/p>\n<p>However, the\u2064 board has been\u200b embroiled in controversy over the ideological \u2064balance of its members. The association&#8217;s executive director, J.P. Bryan, filed a lawsuit \u200cand\u2063 injunction against Nancy\u200b Baker Jones, the acting president of TSHA, alleging\u2064 that some academics on the\u2063 board were attempting to vilify Texas&#8217;s traditional heroes and promote a white supremacist\u200b narrative of the state&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit argued that the board was violating its bylaws by not maintaining\u200b a substantial balance \u2064between\u2063 academics and\u2064 non-academics. \u200dSupporters of the academics launched a website urging people to sign a petition\u200c against Bryan&#8217;s lawsuit, claiming that the association was being taken away from its members.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Hostile Takeover&#8217; Accusations<\/h2>\n<p>In response, the association accused Bryan of orchestrating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-hong-kong-messages-destroyed-vandalized-at-cornell-university\/\" title=\"Pro-Hong Kong Messages Destroyed, Vandalized At Cornell University\">hostile takeover<\/a> with his lawsuit.\u2063 Former presidents of\u200c TSHA wrote an open letter to \u2064the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-oversight-board-punts-on-trump-ban-decision\/\" title=\"Facebook Oversight Board Punts on Trump Ban Decision\">current board members<\/a>,\u2064 stating that Bryan&#8217;s actions \u2064threatened the survival of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>The association claimed that Bryan wanted to whitewash\u200b its publications and events to align with his pro-Anglo ideology of Texas history. They argued that his ideology downplayed the \u2062role of Indigenous people, Hispanics, African Americans, and women in shaping Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the opposition, Bryan \u2062obtained a\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-georgia-update-judge-issues-restraining-order-for-10-days-preventing-defendants-from-destroying-or-erasing-dominion-voting-machines\/\" title=\"BREAKING GEORGIA UPDATE: Judge Issues Restraining Order for 10 Days Preventing Defendants from Destroying or Erasing Dominion Voting Machines\">temporary restraining order<\/a> and preliminary injunction against Jones. However, during a recent meeting, Jones\u2064 and Secretary \u200cStephanie Cole agreed to resign,\u200c and two non-academics\u200c will replace them. Another \u200bnon-academic will fill a third vacancy to restore balance to the board.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Bryan has dropped his lawsuit, and a trial will no longer proceed. He expressed his belief \u200cthat the board will now operate as originally intended,\u200d with a proper balance \u2062between\u2063 academics and non-academics.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan \u2063plans to nominate three individuals to fill the vacant \u2064board seats, confident that qualified \u200bindividuals will step forward \u2063to contribute to the \u2063association&#8217;s mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) resolved a court trial by accepting the resignation of its president and secretary. The dispute arose from concerns about the ideological balance of board members. Founded in 1897, the nonprofit educational organization aims to promote Texas history. The board consisted of 12 academics, eight non-academics, and one vacant position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2016316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}