The longtime Secretary of State helped resettle refugees, supported environmental legislation and was a founding member of the state’s Heritage Caucus.
Emergent movements, including a resurgence of the KKK, led to more anti-immigration policy, eugenics laws, religious fundamentalism and conservative leadership.
In arguing that the South won the Civil War, historian Heather Cox Richardson points to the paradox of the cowboy and how it presents an enduring dilemma for our democracy.