Rice University: Rice students launch oral history archive to preserve Indigenous Texas stories. “Generations of silence are giving way to spoken truth through a new project at Rice University. In collaboration with the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project (TTBP), a nonprofit founded by Lipan Apache leader Lucille Contreras to restore Indigenous foodways and culture, Rice’s Weston Twardowski and a […]
#texashistory
The Alamo (Texas, not Drafthouse) on Facebook: The Alamo’s first-ever digital archive is now live!. “The Alamo’s Collections Team will be releasing these high-resolution images in phases, starting with rarely-seen documents and eventually showcasing the Alamo’s entire artifact collection.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/17/the-alamo-the-alamos-first-ever-digital-archive-is-now-live/
Texas' state song is "Texas, Our Texas," which originally included this line: "Largest and grandest, Withstanding ev'ry test." After Alaska became a state, they had to change the line to "Boldest and grandest." #alaskahistory #texashistory #alaska
Historic Manuscripts & Texana Treasures Fetch $1.5 Million for Heritage – Antiques & The Arts Weekly
...#ThomasJefferson #CherokeeNation #HeritageAuctions #HistoricalManuscripts #TexasHistory #AbrahamLincoln #MatthewBrady #AlbertEinstein #SamHouston #AmericanaAuction #PoliticalHistory #RareManuscripts #Collectibles #AuctionHighlights #HistoricTexana Heritage Auctions in Dallas held a two-session sale on March 28, 2024, featuring 364 lots of historical manuscripts, many…
'Giant' (1956): "We really stole Texas, didn't we, Mr. Benedict, I mean, away from Mexico. [...] why it's all right there in the history books isn't it?"
*one of the most important scenes in the film and funny enough I can only find ONE clip of it, on IG, that I of course cant open myself, so I hope this link works properly. (if I had the know how, I'd clip that scene myself, but, here we are...)
https://www.instagram.com/viv_and_liz/reel/C9Xhz4tuPFg/
#truth #landback #fuckcolonizers #elizabethtaylor #texashistory #stolen
Unveiling History: The Alamo’s Legendary Siege Captured in Collectibles – WorthPoint Spotlight
...#RememberTheAlamo #TexasHistory #JohnWayne #BowieKnife #DavyCrockett #AlamoCollectibles #TexasRevolution #HistoricalTreasures #BattleOfTheAlamo #SamHouston #WilliamTravis #AlamoFilms #TexasIndependence #VintageCollectibles #AlamoMemorabilia John Wayne’s Alamo: A Historical and Collectible Journey The story of the Alamo is one of courage, sacrifice, and the fight for…
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: State Archives Announces Collections Newly Accessible Online. “The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has announced new and revised finding aids recently made available online, along with fresh uploads to the Texas Digital Archive, its repository of electronic items.” Way too much for me to summarize.
TIL: On June 11, 1865, a group of armed robbers made off with some $17,000 in gold and silver (worth about $270,000 in today's money) of the #Texas state treasury in #Austin during the chaotic aftermath of the US Civil War.
#TexasHistory
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Meanwhile, General López de Santa Anna had seized control of the government in Mexico City with reactionary conservative backing, and was working to make himself dictator.
Some Mexican state and local governments refused to recognize López de Santa Anna's government, with a few going so far as to declare independence. This is something many Hispanic Texas went along with. So temporary alliance with US expat slavers for independence, for different reasons.
#TexasHistory
In the Panic of 1837, lots of slavers in the US South lost fortunes and went into debt due to crash of investments that were very much like the Subprime mortgage crisis, except they invested in bundles of mortgages on enslaved people rather than houses. So a bunch of the slavers decided to move to Mexican Texas to escape their debts, and illegally bring their slaves with them.
"There are records of people being whipped for celebrating and being threatened for celebrating. And even outside the context of celebrations, there was retaliation against the Freedmen [..] There was a lot of hope in the middle of a lot of hostility."
Historian #AnnetteGordonReed, author of #OnJuneteenth
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/kpfa-letters-and/on-juneteenth-a-conversation-gqfUEyBQ1Xu/
#Juneteenth #Juneteenth2024 #EmancipationDay #Emancipation #BlackHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #TexasHistory #BlackTexas #books
If you're interested in #TexasHistory or are a Texas History #teacher, check this out: https://education.texashistory.unt.edu/
I wonder what happened to this family.
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people. No food and three gallons of gas in the tank. The father is trying to repair a tire. Three children. Father says, "It's tough but life's tough anyway you take it" | Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017763144/
#DorotheaLange #FSA #GreatDepression #USHistory #TexasHistory #Texas #Migration #Photography #DocumentaryPhotography
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/next-battle-of-alamo/
You know you're dealing with hucksters when a psychic is brought in to verify the authenticity of a historical artefact!
I suppose that at some point I will have to go and look at the Collins collection, although I find militaria buffery, as opposed to serious military history, tiresome. For more background on the Collins collection and the recent politics of Alamo commemoration, read the Texas Monthly piece I have attached as a response to this post.
Phil Collins’s Surprising Love of and Contributions to the Alamo in Texas
The Auto Company, Inc [3/3]
📆 May 1910
📰 The Houston Chronicle
#histodons #History #texas #houston #texashistory #houstonhistory
The Auto Company, Inc [2/3]
This showroom was located on the first floor of the Anna Stabe Kerstings building, which was constructed in 1904.
The building still stands today and houses the Londale Hotel, and until recently, Rachel's Cafe.
#histodons #History #texas #houston #texashistory #houstonhistory #maps
The Auto Company, Inc [1/3]
📆 1911
📍 411 San Jacinto
📸 McKay Company
#histodons #History #texas #houston #texashistory #houstonhistory #photo
Cheek-Neal Coffee Co [3/3]
The coffee shop is long gone, but you can see where it once stood in the current-day Google Earth clipping.
#histodons #history #maps #houstonhistory #texashistory #houston #texas
Cheek-Neal Coffee Co [2/3]
📆 March 1910
📰 Houston Chronicle ad
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