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In the beginning …

Serves as a digital gateway to Texas history collections throughout the state.

Provides information for students, teachers, historians.

Offers smaller libraries, museums, and historical societies, and archives leadership and guidance.

Delivers TEKS curriculum materials for educators

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Collections: Annexation of Texas

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Collections: Fort Bend County Museum

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Collections: Lorenzo de Zavala Online:

Epressario, Statesman and Texas Revolutionary

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De Zavala

materials

from ten

institutions

In English,

Spanish and

French

Collections: Dallas Historical Society

J. L. Patton Collection

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Adalanta Littlejohn Gues

Collections: Dallas Historical Society

U. S. Army Corps of Engineers

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Brazos River: Lock and Dam #8,

1917

Collections: Moore Memorial Public Library

Texas City Disaster and 1st Aero Squadron

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Collections: Clay County Historical Society Comanches, Kiowas and Apaches in Indian Territory

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Collections: Clay County Historical Society Comanches, Kiowas and Apaches in Indian Territory

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Quanah Parker with his wives,

Topay and Chonie Dosina, Kiowa girl

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Collections: Public Libraries

* Alvord Public Library

* Deaf Smith County Library

* Euless Public Library

* Irving Archives

* Lena Armstrong Public Library

* Richardson Public Library

* Palestine Public Library

* Moore Memorial Public Library

* Laredo Public Library

* Denton Public Library

* Killeen City Library

* Marshall Public Library

* Boyce Ditto Public Library

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Collections: Laredo Public Library

International Bridge, 1880s.

Collections: Gammel’s Laws of Texas

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30 of 33 volumes

digitized.

Deaf Smith County images

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Ira Aten, XIT foreman 1895-1905

University of North Texas: Photographing Texas, Davis Mountains State Park

Images from

The Portal to Texas History

Images from

The Portal to Texas History

Collections: Photographing Texas, Mission San Jose

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Portal Services for Educators

Primary Source Adventures provide TEKS

guided lesson plans using primary sources.

Each Primary Source Adventure includes

objectives, assumptions, materials,

anticipatory set, instructional input, guided

practice, and assessment activity for each

lesson plan.

The Primary Source Adventures are online,

they are freely accessible 24 hours a day.

Materials can be shown on audio visual

equipment in the classroom, or

downloaded and printed as convenient

handouts.

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Portal Services for Educators

Primary Source Adventures: Wichita and Comanche Villages

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Primary Source Adventures

Cabeza de Vaca

Charging into Battle with Hood's Texas Brigade

Coronado: Misfortune's Explorer

Galveston 1900: Storm of the Century

Failed Diplomacy: the Zimmerman Telegram

Iwo Jima: Forgotten Valor

Life in the Civilian Conservation Corps

Lone Stars and Gun Smoke

Lorenzo de Zavala: Empresario, Statesman and

Texas Revolutionary

The Mier Expedition

Remember the Alamo

Runaway Slaves

Shelby County: the Regulator Moderator War

Texas Annexation: United We Stand?

Texas City Disaster

Wichita and Comanche Villages

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Resources for Educators:

Texas History Trading Cards

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Resources for Educators: My Texas History Notebook

. . . coming soon

The Law of

April 6, 1830

Human

Statues to the

Progressive

Era

Life in a

Spanish

Mission

Government

Terms skits

October 10, 2006

Dear Parents:

The following directives from Central Office are effective immediately.

1. Girl’s athletics will no longer be offered beginning in January.

2. Only blue folders and binders will be accepted at Your I.S.D.

3. The addition of 15 extra instructional days will be added to the school year

beginning in June.

4. Children will not be admitted to the snack bar, only teachers.

5. Hall behavior- students will no longer be allowed to talk in the hall between

classes.

6. All students will be required to wear school uniforms beginning in January.

Please direct any questions to the administration office at (281) 329-2389.

Sincerely,

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Resources for Educators: My Texas History Notebook

. . . coming soon

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Research Portal

•Search by Full-text, Title, Author or Subject

•Browse by Subject, Contributor, Collection or Era in Texas History

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Browsable by subject, collection, contributor or era in history

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Beta stuff.

Clickable

County map

of Texas.

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Future goals . . .

More collaborative partners

Add Primary Source Adventures

Add Interactive Lesson Plans

– My Texas History Notebook

Expand subjects offered

Grants

Research

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Questions?

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