Before European Contact

• Appeal to the Great Spirit
• Indians Dancing
• Wichita Mortar
• The  Tai-me
• How They Catch Fish
• Vignettes
  • The Much-Maligned Karankawas
  • The Comanche before Texas
  • The Lipan Apaches before Comanche and Spanish Dominance in Texas

The Spanish Invasion of Texas, 1519-1821

• Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca Encounters Texas Coastal Indians
• Coronado's Report to Viceroy Antonio Mendoza Sent From Cibola, August 3, 1540
• The Adventures of Luis de Moscoso Alvarado in Texas
• The 1783 Census of Texas
• The Neutral Ground Agreement
• Spanish Texas Map
• James Long's Cannon
• Biographies
  • Esteván
  • Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long
  • José Bernardo Maximiliano Gutiérrez de Lara

Mexican Texas, 1821-1835

• Green DeWitt's Empresario Contract, April 15, 1825
• The Fredonian Declaration of Independence, December 21, 1826
• General Manuel Mier y Terán's Letter to President Guadalupe Victoria, June 30, 1828
• The Law of April 6, 1830
• The Turtle Bayou Resolutions of June 13, 1832
• An Old-Time Buffalo Hunt
• Biographies
  • Lorenzo de Zavala
  • Haden Edwards
  • John David Bradburn

Texas Revolution (October 1, 1835-April 21, 1836)

• The Texas Declaration of Causes For Taking Up Arms Against Santa Anna, November 7, 1835
• William Travis's Letter of February 24, 1836
• Travis's Last Appeal From the Alamo, March 3, 1836
• Sam Houston's Treaty with the Cherokee Indians, February 23, 1836
• The Treaty of Velasco, May 14, 1836
• Fannin's Cannon
• Biographies
  • James Walker Fannin
  • Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson
  • José de Urrea

Birth of a New Republic, 1836-1845

• Hugh McLeod's Description of the Council House Fight
• Lamar's Address to the People of Santa Fe
• The Black Bean Episode of the Mier Expedition
• The Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States
• A Proposed Treaty Between Texas and Mexico Supported By the British and French Governments
• “Delegates Voting on the 1836 Constitution”
• Battle of Plum Creek
• Escape from Perote Castle
• Biographies
  • Juan N. Seguín
  • Duwali (Chief Bowl)
  • Margaret Moffette Lea Houston

The 28th State in the Union, 1845-1861

• Article IX of the Texas Constitution of 1845
• Anson Jones's Valedictory Speech, February 19, 1846
• Petition for the Emancipation of a Slave
• A Texan's View of the Mexican War
• Texas Ordinance of Secession
• Quanah Parker
• “The Main Plaza San Antonio as held by the Texas Volunteers under Col. Ben McCulloch on the morning of February 16, 1861.”
• Biographies
  • Juan Nepomuceno “Cheno” Cortina
  • Elisha Marshall Pease
  • Cynthia Ann Parker

Texas During the Civil War, 1861-1865

• An American Diplomat in Matamoros Reports on Confederate
• Trade With Mexico
• General John B. Magruder's Plan to Defend Texas
• An Appeal to Allow Conscripted Soldiers to Remain in Central Texas
• Hardships during the War, 1863
• General Gordon Granger's “Juneteenth” Proclamation, June 19, 1865
• The War in Texas
• The Attack on Sabine Pass
• “Confederate Barbarities in Texas”
• Biographies
  • Richard “Dick” Dowling
  • Santos Benavides
  • John Bankhead Magruder

Reconstruction in Texas: The Unfinished Civil War, 1865-1874

• Mrs. L.E. Potts's Letter to President Andrew Johnson
• Excerpts from Major General George A. Custer's Testimony before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction
• A Report From a Texas Freedmen's Bureau Agent
• Letter Describing the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Jefferson, Texas
• President Ulysses Grant Refuses to Aid Governor Davis
• Visit of the Ku-Klux
• Biographies
  • Matthew Gaines
  • Edmund Jackson Davis
  • Cullen Montgomery Baker

Economic and Political Reforms, 1874-1890

• The Texas Fence-cutting and Fence-gate Laws of 1884
• The “Cleburne Demands” of the Texas Farmers' Alliance
• “Dear Sunny South”: A Louisiana Woman Describes Her Trip to Denton County, Texas in 1887
• Bettie Gay Writes to the Southern Mercury
• Demands of the Texas Federation of Labor
• Messenger and Newsboy
• Biographies
  • Margaret Heffernan Borland
  • Edward “Sancho” Mozique
  • Norris Wright Cuney

The Populist Movement, 1890-1900

• The Texas Anti-Trust Law
• Governor James Hogg Offers John H. Reagan the Post of Railroad Commissioner
• The Omaha Platform and Expression of Sentiments, July 4, 1892
• Female Populists Debate Woman Suffrage
• Bettie Gay Argues for Woman Suffrage
• Bohemian Farm Family in Texas
• Biographies
  • Charles William Macune
  • John B. Rayner
  • Bettie Gay

Society and Culture, 1874-1900

• A Reward for Sam Bass and Fellow Outlaws
• A Federal Law Pertaining to Reservation Indians
• Account of Engagement with Comanche Indians, February 16, 1875
• Annual Report from General E.O.C. Ord, October 2, 1878
• Lt. Henry O. Flipper Seeks Vindication
• Uncle Tom's Cabin—As It Will have to be Played if Johnson Wins
• Virginia K. Johnson Home
• Biographies
  • Jack Johnson
  • William Sydney Porter
  • Elisabet Ney

The Progressive Era and World War I, 1900-1919

• A Heated Anti-Ferguson Letter
• Governor William P. Hobby on Prohibition
• Governor Hobby on Woman Suffrage
• An Article Linking Prohibition & Suffrage
• A Link between Woman Suffrage and Race
• Camp Cotton, El Paso, Texas
• Biographies
  • George Sherman Conner
  • Minnie Fisher Cunningham
  • Pattillo Higgins

The Rise of Urbanization, Expanding Opportunities, and the Invisible Empire, 1920-1929

• Governor Pat Neff's Message to the 38th Legislature on the Establishment of a State Parks System
• The President of the Texas League of Woman Voters Supports Miriam
• Ferguson in the 1924 Democratic Primary for Governor
• A Supporter Writes Governor Miriam Ferguson Concerning Her Pardoning Policies
• A Citizen Writes Dan Moody about the Governor's Prohibition Stand
• Legendary Texas Ranger Frank Hamer Reports to Governor Moody on the Sherman Race Riot
• Looking Backward
• Biographies
  • Annie Webb Blanton
  • Morris Sheppard
  • Lawrence A. Nixon

The Great Depression and New Deal, 1929-1940

• Louisiana Governor Huey Long Invites Texas Governor Ross Sterling to the New Orleans Cotton Conference to Discuss the Cotton Holiday Plan
• A Protest Against the Imposition of Martial Law by Governor Ross Sterling
• A Citizen Writes Governor James Allred to Oppose the Appointment of Sarah Hughes to a State District Court Judgeship
• Emma Tenayuca Discusses Early Influences
• Lasca Fortassain Discusses San Antonio Mayor Maury Maverick and the La Villita Restoration Project
• Cotton Spinner
• Biographies
  • John Nance Garner
  • Sam Rayburn
  • Emma Tenayuca

World War II and Texas, 1941-1945

• An Excerpt from a Library of Congress “Man on the Street” Interview Conducted in Austin, Texas after the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 9, 1941)
• General Henry H. “Hap” Arnold Celebrates the Work of the WASPs at Their Final Graduation Ceremony Sweetwater, Texas (December 7, 1944)
• A WASP Remembers Her Basic Training at Avenger Field   in Sweetwater, Texas
• Brigadier General Lillian Dunlap Reflects on the Beginning of Her Career in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II
• An African American Radioman Recalls His Service during World War II
• Crystal City Internment Camp
• Biographies
  • Oveta Culp Hobby
  • Chester Nimitz
  • Macario García

On the Threshold of Modernization, 1945-1959

• Thurgood Marshall Discusses the Attitudes of NAACP Leaders Toward Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy
• House Concurrent Resolution No. 48 Creating the Gilmer-Aikin Committee (August, 1947)
• The U.S. Supreme Court's Sweatt v. Painter Decision
• A Shivers Supporter Praises the Governor
• Excerpt from an Interview with Dr. Isidore J. Lamothe on Segregation in the Medical Field
• LBJ and the Astronauts
• Biographies
  • Jack Kilby
  • Gus Garcia
  • Buddy Holly

The Turbulent Decade: Reform and Reaction, 1960-1972

• Excerpts from Remarks Intended for Delivery by President John F. Kennedy to the Texas Democratic State Committee, Austin Municipal Auditorium (November 22, 1963)
• Judge Sarah Hughes Describes Delivering the Oath of Office to Lyndon Johnson Following the Kennedy Assassination
• Civil Rights Activist James Farmer Discusses Lyndon Johnson
• Excerpts from President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Message to Congress Seeking Passage of the Voting Rights Act (March 15, 1965)
• Rev. Claude William Black Jr. Discusses the Impact of Racial Discrimination in San Antonio
• Texas Cotton, U.S.A.
• “Johnson Treatment”
• Biographies
  • Sarah Hughes
  • Henry B. González
  • Ralph Yarborough

A Transitional Decade, 1972-1979

• Barbara Jordan Reflects on Lyndon Johnson
• Amado M. Peña, Jr. Discusses Changing Influences on His Art
• Flaco Jimenez Discusses His Early Interest in Music and the Origin of Conjunto
• Historian Felix Almaraz Discusses Changing Depictions of Hispanics in Film
• River Walk Jazz Musician Jim Cullen, Jr. Recalls His Club's Start, Describes the Stresses That Can Develop in a Band, and Reflects on Success and Happiness
• Texas Stadium's Hole
• Biographies
  • Barbara Jordan
  • John Tower
  • Mary Kay Ash

Complex Times, 1980-1994

• President George H. W. Bush Addresses the Texas State Legislature
• Excerpts from President George H. W. Bush's Remarks at a Fundraising Dinner Honoring Governor Bill Clements in Dallas, Texas (November 10, 1989)
• Governor Ann Richards' Gridiron Club Speech
• Governor Ann Richards Defends NAFTA
• “Did NAFTA Spur Texas Exports?”
• Bringing America Back!
• Biographies
  • H. Ross Perot
  • Selena
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan

The Dawn of a New Century, 1995-2013

• Excerpts from President George W. Bush's “Mission Accomplished” Speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
• “Texas Transitions to Service Economy”
• ** Selected Texas Voting Statistics, 1970-2012
• Recession Arrives in Texas: A Rougher Ride in 2009?
• Actor Jaston Williams's Interesting Beginnings
• San Antonio, Texas
• Biographies
  • Molly Ivins
  • Michael Dell
  • Larry McMurtry

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