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The annual business meeting for the Texas State Historical Association is usually a staid affair. Members and leaders of the association—a mix of professional historians, custodians of museums and historical sites, and amateur history buffs—indulge in discussion of routine financial matters and listen to presentations on the organization’s ongoing work. “Usually, everyone’s looking at their watch, everybody wants a snack, everybody’s gotta pee,” said Michelle Haas, who publishes historical documents and books and analyzes historical issues online for a nonprofit organization she runs, the Texas History Trust. But in early March, during the group’s annual meeting, held this year at the El Paso Civic Center, attendees in the packed ballroom were simmering. For months, as state lawmakers had held contentious debates about how history should be…

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