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 »
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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 »
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 »
One-Million Issues in the Texas Digital Newspaper Program

The Texas Digital Newspaper Program on The Portal to Texas History has reached a huge milestone of over one-million newspaper issues openly available! These one-million newspaper issues comprise 11,256,533 pages, contributed by 226 partners from across Texas, and representing 210 counties. Multiple partners have helped to build the Texas Digital Newspaper Program Collection, to… Read more »