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The 1878 Total Eclipse and Texas Curiosities

“Texas, Our Catholic Texas”?

Fear and Lust in the Desert, or How Lies, Deception, and Trickery Made California a Date Palm Monopoly

Remembering Carlos E. Castañeda: A Mexican Historian in Texas

Remembering Rio Speedway

“We Didn’t Have to Ask Permission”: UT’s 1960s Hidden Gay Oasis

Lessons from the Grave

Local Memory: Telling Austin’s Musical History

NEP Faculty Feature - Dr. Daina Ramey Berry

NEP Faculty Feature: Dr. Daina Ramey Berry

“We may expect nothing but shacks to be erected here”: An Environmental History of Downtown Austin’s Waterloo Park

“We may expect nothing but shacks to be erected here”: An Environmental History of Downtown Austin’s Waterloo Park

The Archive as Nepantla: Dr. Daniel Arbino, The Anzaldúa Papers and The Intricacies of Being Beyond Doing

The Archive as Nepantla: Dr. Daniel Arbino, The Anzaldúa Papers and The Intricacies of Being Beyond Doing

Texas State Historical Association - “Teaching Texas History in an Age of Hyper Partisanship” and “Forgetting and Remembering: Why Does Searching for an Accurate Past Provoke Backlash?"

Texas State Historical Association – “Teaching Texas History in an Age of Hyper Partisanship” and “Forgetting and Remembering: Why Does Searching for an Accurate Past Provoke Backlash?”

The Man Who Sold the Border: The Mercantile Imagination of Robert Runyon

The Man Who Sold the Border: The Mercantile Imagination of Robert Runyon

Black Cowboys: An American Story

Black Cowboys: An American Story

Unidos Marcharemos Adelante

Unidos Marcharemos Adelante

IHS Climate in Context - Texas Deregulation and the 2021 Ice Storm

IHS Climate in Context – Texas Deregulation and the 2021 Ice Storm

Banner image for the post An Inconvenient Past: Slavery at the Texas Governor's Mansion

An Inconvenient Past: Slavery at the Texas Governor’s Mansion

Introducing Planet Texas Header Image

IHS Climate in Context: Introducing Planet Texas 2050

Banner image for the post Texas Hurricanes: Past, Present, and Future

IHS Climate in Context Feature: Texas Hurricanes: Past, Present, and Future

Banner image for the post Teaching Texas History in a Time of Pandemic: Reflections on Online Teaching

Teaching Texas History in a Time of Pandemic: Reflections on Online Teaching

Five Women Posing near the Spirit of the Confederacy Statue, Houston, Texas (1908) via SMU Libraries Digital Collections

Making History: Houston’s “Spirit of the Confederacy”

Black and white image of Lizzie Scott Neblett

A (Queer) Rebel Wife In Texas

The Austin Women Activists Oral History Project

Slavery in Early Austin: The Stringer’s Hotel and Urban Slavery

Photograph of the first page of Julien Sidney Devereux, Sr.'s will

Documenting Slavery in East Texas: Transcripts from Monte Verdi

Banner image of the post Rage and Resistance at Ashbel Smith’s Evergreen Plantation

Rage and Resistance at Ashbel Smith’s Evergreen Plantation

Oil and Money: Texas Politics, 1929-1932

Black and white image of the Neill-Cochran House

The Enslaved and the Blind: State Officials and Enslaved People in Austin, Texas

Black and white image of women Register to Vote in Travis County, 1918

Voting Rights Still Threatened 100 Years After the 19th Amendment

Dean Page Keeton and Academic Freedom at UT Austin: Three Archival Letters

Black and white image of Helen Martinez and her four children in San Antonio, Texas

Remembering the Tex-Son Strike: Legacies of Latina-led Labor Activism in San Antonio, Texas

Image of the painting A Ride for Liberty by Eastman Johnson from the Brooklyn Museum

Love in the Time of Texas Slavery

A Longhorn’s Life of Service: Tom Ward

The Racial Geography Tour at UT Austin

An image of the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty of 1847

Letter to the Editor: Remarks on Jesse Ritner’s “Paying for Peace: Reflections on the ‘Lasting Peace’ Monument.”

A black and white map of Austin, Texas focusing on the city's downtown area

Austin Historical Atlas: Mapping Austin’s Historical Markers

Map of Austin, Texas depicting the city's various neighborhoods

Austin Historical Atlas: Development During World War I

A print featuring a large map of San Antonio from the 19th century

Fandangos, Intemperance, and Debauchery

“Lasting Peace” - Statue at Peace Garden, commemorating the peace treaty between settler John Meusebach and Chief Santa Anna of the Comanche Indians (via City-Data)

Paying for Peace: Reflections on the “Lasting Peace” Monument

Black and white photograph of Mexican president, Plutarco Elias Calles standing with members of the Apostolic Mexican Catholic Church

A Texas Historian’s Perspective on Mexican State Anticlericalism

The Main Building at the University of Texas - Austin (via Wikimedia Commons).

Textbooks, Texas, and Discontent: The Fight against Inadequate Educational Resources

Thinking in Public: Public Scholarship at UT Austin

Letter from Sion R. Bostick to Eugene C. Barker discussing the illegal slave trade in Texas in the 1830s

The Illegal Slave Trade in Texas, 1808-1865

Gravestone of Harris Rednick from a graveyard in Luling, Texas

History Revealed in a Very Small Place

The Old Oakwood Cemetery Austin, Texas, United States. Via Wikipedia.

Reconstruction in Austin: The Unknown Soldiers

Image of the front facade of Casa Marianella in Austin, Texas

Sanctuary Austin: 1980s and Today

Image of the front page of Jim Hogg County Enterprise (Hebbronville, TX), March 9, 1939.

A Gold Mine in a Silver Edition: Jim Hogg County, March 9, 1939

1928 National Negro League Champion St. Louis Stars. Photo courtesy of the Missouri History Museum

Remembering Willie “El Diablo” Wells and Baseball’s Negro Leagues

On Flags, Monuments, and Historical Myths

A cartoon depicting three young school children one covering his mouth with a book, a girl covering her eyes with a book, and another boy covering his ears with two books

Another Perspective on the Texas Textbook Controversy

Old Sorrel hair

The Curious Life of General Jackson’s Horse’s Hair

Print of the bombardment and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, January 11th 1863. Via Wikipedia.

Conflict in the Confederacy: William Williston Heartsill’s diary

Dr. Benjamin Johnson; Dr. Monica Munoz Martinez; Dr. John Moran Gonzales; Dr. Trinidad Gonzales; and Dr. Sonia Hernandez

Latinas and Latinos: A Growing Presence in the Texas State Historical Association

Neiman Marcus building from a postcard circa 1920

Carrie Marcus Neiman: A Pioneer in Ready to Wear

View of the yard at the Texas State Prison in Huntsville, 1949

Reforming Prisons in Early Twentieth-century Texas

The letters were written in Spanish and are my own translation. All of the letters and images are from: Francisco A. Chapa Family Papers, MS 405, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.

A Father’s Love: Francois LaBorde’s Letters

Black and white image of the house of the first Confederate family in Americana in Brazil

Confederados: The Texans of Brazil

The Cuban and Texas flags flying together during a pleasure ride outside of Havana. This event (minus the Texas flag) made page 3 of the NY Times on November 12, 2007.

The Future of Cuba-Texas Relations

Comanche Feats of Horsemanship by George Catlin 1834. Via Wikimedia Commons.

“The Battle of Bandera Pass and the Making of Lone Star Legend”

Texas' New Social Studies Textbooks. Courtesy of Texas Tribune

Texas is Adopting New History Textbooks: Maybe They Should Be Historically Accurate

John Salmon Ford, photographed while serving as a Colonel in the Confederate 2nd Texas Cavalry during the War Between the States. Original photograph circa 1860 to 1865. (Via Wikimedia commons

A Texas Ranger and the Letter of the Law

Black and white photograph of members of the 127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment recruited in Ohio during the Civil War

The Holland Family: An American Story

The Normandy Scholar Program on World War II

Black and white photograph of Coco Chanel attending a Western Party with Stanley Marcus and his wife in Dallas, Texas in 1957

What Not to Wear to a Texas Barbecue, 1957

Image of the Aims and Purposed of the League of Latin American Citizens document from c. 1927

The Texas State Historical Association Launches the Tejano History Handbook Project

Photograph of the front facade of Garrison Hall on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin

The Latest from Longhorn PhDs

Page from the Telegraph and Texas Register newspaper from Nov. 3, 1828

“The Die is Cast”: Early Texans Face the Comanches

Peter Dean, Dallas Chaos, 1981, oil on canvas, 68 x 72 3/16 in., Blanton Museum of Art, Gift of Lorraine Dean and Gregory Dean, 1994

Dallas Chaos: Art and the JFK Assassination

Photograph of Clyde Rabb Littlefield standing next to a plaque memorializing his father

The Longhorns’ Resident Historian

Black and white image of Austin's Municipal Abattoir as it appeared in 1939

Austin’s Municipal Abattoir

Daguerreotype of Marinda Atkins (1809-1878), wife of Sebron Sneed, ca. 1849-1850 in an ornate gold frame

The Many Histories of South Austin: The Old Sneed Mansion

Gated entrance to Hyde Park in Austin, Texas in the 1890s featuring a trolley car to the left of the entrance

Austin’s First Electric Streetcar Era

Lady Bird Johnson interviewed by Michael Gillette

Screenshot of the homepage for The Death of Austin website

“The End of Austin” – A new online publication

Black and white portrait of Texas Governor Ann Richards

Women Shaping Texas in the Twentieth Century

Screenshot of the TeachingTexas.org homepage

New Partnership between Not Even Past and Teaching Texas

Blueprint of the architectural drawing of Garrison Hall at the University of Texas at Austin

An Architectural History of Garrison Hall

Black and white image of covered wagons crossing the stone bridge at Antietam

Texans at Antietam: 150 Years Ago Today

“Home Economics Training is for the Improvement of Home and Family Life?”: African American Women Professionals and Home Economics Training in Texas, 1930-1950

Screenshot of the TeachingTexas.org homepage

Teaching Texas

Image of the McDonald Observatory sitting faraway on a shrub covered hill overlooking surrounding grasslands

From Marfa to Mauritania in Forty Years

Image of a strip mall church in Austin, Texas

Signs of Faith

Black and white image of the completed Austin dam from the 1890s

The Rise and Fall of the Austin Dam

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 9 – Abortion Law in Texas

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 8 – Public Higher Education

Image of an Asian family from July 19, 1943 sitting on the edge of a fountain on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin

Family Outing in Austin, Texas

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 7 – Medicaid

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 6 – Betting on Gam(bl)ing

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 5 (continued) – School Finance

Black and white image of Mary Elizabeth Sutherland Carpenter gesturing with her left hand

Liz Carpenter: Texan

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 5 – School Finance

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 4 – Concealed Weapons

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 3 – Redistricting

Image looking down a valley of green shrubbery between two red-brown mountains

Big Bend – “Some sort of scenic beauty”

Image of the First Electric tower erected in Austin, 41st & Speedway, 1895

City Lights: Austin’s Historic Moonlight Towers

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 2

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 1 – Budget Crises