[3] House Bill 2497 was passed in May 2021, receiving support from Republicans and Democrats, and was signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
[1] The 1836 Project is made up of a nine-member advisory committee tasked with promoting the state’s history to Texas residents, primarily through pamphlets given to people receiving driver’s licenses.
[1][6] Committee members were appointed by Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dade Phelan.
[7] Harvey Graff’s article “Battle of the Books'' speculates that the 1836 project was enacted in order to combat the New York Times “1619 project” which is a deliberate plan to rewrite American history by systematically including people of color, whose first non-native ancestors arrived in Virginia in 1619 as slaves.
[7] The article also mentions Trump’s 1776 Project that begins the history of the United States with the Revolution, additionally, most forms of conflict, including racial and gender, are erased from history in favor of a push for freedoms that predominantly benefit a white man.