This is a short nonfiction you should definitely check out. Written by a Black Texan, and published a month before Juneteenth became a national holiday, Gordon-Reed covers Texas history, Juneteenth's, and her own. She's a perfect author for this - a historian who was born in Texas and the first Black student at her elementary school after integration. She took the classes with a whitewashed and hero-worshiping version of Texas history that all Texans had to growing up, and she sheds light on some of those stories here.

To love Texas, or any place, is not to be uncritical of its past or present.