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Tejanos through Time

by Emilio Zamora

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The Texas State Historical Association, the oldest and most important professional organization dedicated to preserving and advancing knowledge about Texas history, recently announced the publication of an eBook entitled Tejanos through Time, Selections from the Handbook of Tejano History. The publication, edited by Emilio Zamora, Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, and Andrés Tijerina, Professor in the Department of History at Austin Community College, brings focused attention to the fastest growing population group in Texas that has also played a significant role in the history of the state. Aside from acknowledging the contemporary and historical significance of Tejanos, the Association is announcing its commitment to a full rendering of Texas history in its online Handbook of Texas History.

Tejanos through Time began as a one-year project to increase the number of articles on Tejanos in the Handbook of Texas. The Handbook of Tejano History project received financial support from the Tejano Monument Inc., the organization responsible for the magnificent Tejano Monument on the Southeast section of the Texas Capitol Grounds. The project was so successful that the authors who answered the call for generating new articles on Tejanos for the Handbook of Texas exceeded the original goal of one hundred works to produce two hundred pieces that will be appearing in the Handbook of Texas. A new and more extensive eBook and hard copy version on Tejano history will be available in March 2017.

Not Even Past takes this opportunity to once again welcome the Association back to the University of Texas. Our History Department was instrumental in establishing the organization in 1897. It operated here until 2008 when it moved to the University of North Texas. Last year, the organization relocated its offices back to the University of Texas at Austin where it has re-established its relationship with the Department of History. The publication of Tejanos through Time is a welcomed cause for celebrating this renewed relationship.


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Handbook of African American Texas

by Joan Neuberger

Do you love Texas history? The Texas State Historical Association, which makes Texas history readily accessible through its Digital Gateway to Texas History, now offers a huge, new, terrific series of readings in the Handbook of African American Texas.

Launched on Juneteenth, 2013, the anniversary of the day in 1865 when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached African American Texans, this 800 article online encyclopedia includes more than 300 new entries and is part of the 26,000 article collection called the “Handbook of Texas.” The project was envisioned and spearheaded by Merline Pitre of Texas Southern University and former TSHA president. She worked with Randolph B. “Mike” Campbell of the University of North Texas and TSHA chief historian.

Read articles about the Victory Grill, originally opened in 1945 for servicemen returning from fighting in World War II (and pictured below).

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Or the history of the African Methodist Episocpal Church in Texas (this is the Wesley Chapel AME Church in Georgetown, built in 1904).

Photograph of the front facade of the Wesley Chapel AME Church in Georgetown, Texas

You can read about everything from Black Cowboys to Black Visual Artists, and everything in between: African American Texans in the arts, business, community organizations, education, the military, journalism, religion, sports, and slavery & civil rights.

You can find an introduction to this wonderful new resource in the Newsletter of the TSHA.

Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons.


The views and opinions expressed in this article or video are those of the individual author(s) or presenter(s) and do not necessarily reflect the policy or views of the editors at Not Even Past, the UT Department of History, the University of Texas at Austin, or the UT System Board of Regents. Not Even Past is an online public history magazine rather than a peer-reviewed academic journal. While we make efforts to ensure that factual information in articles was obtained from reliable sources, Not Even Past is not responsible for any errors or omissions.

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