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News from the Texas State Historical Association
Gilmer Mirror
San Jacinto app icon Kirkus Reviews lauds San Jacinto, the enhanced eBook app, as "an accessible, well-illustrated study of one of the great turning points in American history." The app provides multiple viewpoints of "one of the most decisive battles ...

News from the Texas State Historical Association
Gilmer Mirror
With maps, panoramas, images, and links to the Handbook of Texas Online, the app tells a fuller story of the Battle of San Jacinto and the San Jacinto Monument. Developed in partnership with JoSara MeDia, the San Jacinto app 's rich digital content ...

McDonald Observatory: Searching for Dark Energy
Space.com
McDonald came to be due to an "unexpected legacy" from a banker in Paris, Texas, according to the Texas State Historical Association. William Johnson McDonald died in 1926 at age 81 and arranged for $850,000 (the equivalent of $11 million in modern ...

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Rick Perry says Sam Houston opposed slavery and said Texas shouldn't secede ...
PolitiFact
As a senator, according to the Texas State Historical Association's Handbook of Texas, Houston angered pro-slavery factions by voting in 1848 to prohibit slavery in Oregon; supporting the delicately balanced slavery/anti-slavery decisions in the ...

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Rick Perry says Sam Houston opposed slavery and said Texas shouldn't secede ...
PolitiFact
As a senator, according to the Texas State Historical Association's Handbook of Texas, Houston angered pro-slavery factions by voting in 1848 to prohibit slavery in Oregon; supporting the delicately balanced slavery/anti-slavery decisions in the ...

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