The Portal to Texas History had the pleasure of being a sponsor of the 23rd Annual Family History Conference in Tyler, Texas, on October 11, 2025. Jake Mangum attended the conference as a representative of the Portal. This year’s theme, “Your Past Unlocked: Emerging Technology in Genealogy,” seamlessly aligned with the Portal’s mission to offer… Read more »
Posts Tagged: The Portal to Texas History
Telling the Story of the Harris and Eliza Kempner Collection
Written by Max Rhodes, Lead Metadata Student for the Kempner Collection and a journalism major and history minor. The Digital Projects Lab has recently completed the process of digitizing and describing over 50,000 letters from the Harris and Eliza Kempner Collection. Starting back in March of 2017 and enlisting the help of approximately 30 student… 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 GLO’s Save Texas History Symposium
The Cathy Nelson Hartman Portal to Texas History Endowment was happy to sponsor and host a booth at the Save Texas History Symposium, From San Fernando de Bexar to “The Alamo City:” San Antonio and its History. The symposium was presented by the Texas General Land Office at the Historic Menger Hotel in San Antonio on… Read more »
Announcing the Recipients of the 2019 Rescuing Texas History Award!
Congratulations to our awardees of the 2019 cycle of the Rescuing Texas History program! In May 2019, The Portal to Texas History announced the latest call for applications to our Rescuing Texas History program, in two tracks: for newspaper and non-newspaper applications. This program is intended to offer up to $1,000 worth of digitization services… Read more »
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