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

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Texas Hurricanes: Past, Present, and Future

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

Black and white image of five men standing underneath an oil rig

Spanish Flu in the Texas Oil Fields

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

Black and white photograph of the Avenue Hotel

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

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

Black and white image of W. Page Keeton, Dean of the UT Law School, 1949-1974 next to an image of letter from Homer L. Bruce to Dean Keeton dated June 15, 1960

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

The earlier known photograph of the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas

The Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas

A Longhorn’s Life of Service: Tom Ward

A close-up photograph of the interface of El Paso Museum of History's interactive display

History For Us at the El Paso Museum of History

An image of the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty of 1847

Letter to the Editor

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

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 iPad showing homepage of Tejanos Through Time website

Tejanos through Time

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

Memorial plaque of the Children of the Confederacy Creed erected by the Texas Division of the Children of the Confederacy

On Flags, Monuments, and Historical Myths

The Bullock Texas State History Museum. Courtesy of the museum website.

History Museums: The Bullock Texas State History Museum

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

Wall Paintings at Seminole Canyon State Park

The First Texans: An Exhibit in Jester Hall

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

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

Book cover of Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (2014)

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

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

Photograph of the front facade of the Victory Grill showing a mural of African American figures painted along the side of the building

Handbook of African American Texas

Book cover of War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities edited by Arnoldo De León

War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and the Tejano Communities edited by Arnoldo De León (2012)

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

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

Movie poster of the movie Boxing Shadows

Boxing Shadows, by W.K. Stratton with Anissa “The Assassin” Zamarron (2009)

“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

A black and white photograph of the physics department's earliest demo equipment on rows of shelves

University of Texas at Austin: Physics Department History

Black and white image of members of the Texas Border Patrol with some on horseback

The Long History of the Texas Border Patrol

Image of a strip mall church in Austin, Texas

Signs of Faith

Portrait of seventeenth-century century Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei

At the Debates: Rick Perry and Galileo

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

Book cover of Texas Through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience by Harold L. Smith and Judith N. McArthur

Great Books on Women in US History

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

Book cover of Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics During World War II by Emilio Zamora

“Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas; Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II” by Emilio Zamora (2009)