August 23rd, 2017 New from the UNT Press Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy Authors Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice grappled with several issues when deciding how to relate a general history of the Texas Rangers. Should emphasis be placed on their frontier defense against Indians, or focus more on their role as… Read more »
Yearly Archives:: 2017
New Borderland Newspapers Available in the Texas Digital Newspaper Program
We are pleased to announce the completion of a grant whose goal was to build newspaper content for counties that previously had little or no newspaper content in the Texas Digital Newspaper Program. As a result of this award, we have digitized 25,300 newspaper pages from 13 border and near-border counties, including titles published… Read more »
Beyond the Bytes, August 2, 2017
August 2nd, 2017 News from the Portal Fellowship Lecture Series: Matthew Carr Please join us on Friday, August 4 when Fellow Matthew Carr speaks on his project Origins of the Culture War: Social Issues in State Party Platforms, 1960-2016 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Willis Library, Room 250H… (more). The Virtual… Read more »
Beyond the Bytes, July 5, 2017
July 5th, 2017 New Collections on the Portal Civil Rights in Black and BrownCovering the period since the onset of civil rights era, the Civil Rights in Black and Brown oral history interviews with African American, Mexican American, and white activists located throughout the large, diverse state adds new depth to the study of… Read more »
Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant Call for Submissions – 2017
The Portal to Texas History has recently announced the call for submissions for its most recent round of the Rescuing Texas History program. Rescuing Texas History 2017 is the tenth year of the program, which has brought to light over 45,000 items from 225 partnerships. Since the beginning of the program there have been over… Read more »
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