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 »
Posts By: Jake Mangum
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 »
Rescuing Texas History, 2024 Awards Announcement
The Portal to Texas History announced its most recent call for submissions for the 2024 Rescuing Texas History program. This is the sixteenth year of the program, which has brought to light over 82,000 items from 448 projects. The resources added to The Portal to Texas History from these collections have had more than 19.5 million… Read more »
The Portal to Texas History at the Texas State Historical Association’s Annual Meeting
The Portal to Texas History was thrilled to attend 128th Annual Meeting for the Texas State Historical Association in College Station this past week. The Portal was able to attend thanks to the Cathy Nelson Hartman Portal to Texas History Endowment. Few things make me feel better about the work I do than having many… Read more »
Remembering JFK Sixty Years Later
As we approach the 60th commemoration of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, his life and legacy have not lost their hold on the imagination of the American public. His famous quotes such as “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” and “We choose… Read more »
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