Yearly Archives:: 2024
New Historical Texas Newspapers Available on Chronicling America
As part of UNT Libraries’ seventh round of National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant funding awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress has begun uploading more Texas newspaper issues to Chronicling America, the digital repository for historic U. S. newspapers. This seventh round of funding, focused on building content from… Read more »
Early Texas Inventions on The Portal to Texas History
This post was written by Madelin Villanueva, a UNT Emerald Eagle Scholar and biomedical engineering major, who is completing an internship in Digital Libraries this semester. Did you know that many Texans invented early versions of the same medical devices we use today? Bandage Leah M. Kirwan patented the bandage pictured below on August 9,… Read more »
2024 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses
The 2024 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses, an American Historical Association regional conference, took place October 4th and 5th at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. The focus of the conference centered around issues, challenges, and opportunities associated with introductory courses in US and world history that students may encounter in their education…. Read more »
The Portal to Texas History at the GLO’s Save Texas History Symposium
This September, The Portal to Texas History was happy to sponsor and attend the Texas General Land Office’s Save Texas History Symposium in Austin, Texas. The symposium provides attendees the opportunity to learn from scholars discussing the rich history of Texas. This year’s theme, Cartographic Frontiers: Putting Texas on the Map, focused on how the… Read more »
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