PROJECTPLUM WOKE#

Project PlumWoke#

Local Texas History seen through Global Structures

History does not live only in Texas history textbooks.
It lives online—restless, contested, rewritten—by scholars, researchers, writers, and digital activists who believe the past deserves closer examination than the stories we inherit.

Project PlumWoke# is a digital microhistory of the Battle of Plum Creek (1840) built from archival documents, maps, treaties, memoirs, and historical records. By examining one event in close detail, the project reveals the larger forces that shaped Texas during the early Republic: immigration networks, land grants, frontier diplomacy, and the expansion of settlement across contested Comanche territory.

This is history as investigation—and, in a sense, history as revolt: a refusal to accept the past only as it has been handed down in simplified narratives.

History is not a textbook written to flatter patriotic memory.
It is a record to be examined, questioned, and understood.

Project_PlumWoke approaches Texas history through critical historical methodology, applying contemporary scholarship to documented evidence in order to reconsider familiar events and place them in broader historical context of global colonialism. 

Developed by a volunteer collective committed to rigorous research, the project brings historical sources into the open and invites readers to explore the evidence for themselves.

The past is not fixed.
It is a field of inquiry.

Remember Plum Creek.
Explore the sources.
Follow the research.