State Board of Education ponders: Was Sam Houston a liberal?

*This snippet is taken from an article at HoustonChronicle.com and not written by me.*

Wax bust of Sam Houston that was on display at
the San Jacinto Monument. Photo taken by me.

Was Sam Houston a liberal? This is yet the latest "factual" issue discussed by the State Board of Education as the deadline approaches next month for approving new social studies textbooks that Texas students will use for the next eight years. Recent directives from the board to textbook publishers have involved refernces to Jews and the Holocaust, and the good and the bad sides of Islam. "The whole structure is in a way a charade," said Jacqueline Jones, the chairwoman of the history department at the University of Texas at Austin. Texas Tribune