Acknowledgment of Sources
The linked documents in the lists that follow are located in many Internet collections. A person perusing those sites will likely find interesting and useful documents beyond those found in the lists and will doubtless appreciate the commitment of time and of intellectual and financial resources that went into the development of those collections.
Major Sources
Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas
Many of the documents in these lists that have to do with Texas before statehood come from an excellent, very extensive site titled "Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas," developed by Dr. Wallace L. McKeehan, Director of the Center for Cancer Biology & Nutrition in the Institute of Bioscience and Technology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Houston, Texas. The site also has extensive narrative material by Professor McKeehan, a descendant of DeWitt Colony settlers. Although the project focuses on people, places, and events associated directly with the DeWitt Colony, the narrative and especially the documents provide a comprehensive examination of the development of Anglo-American Texas between about 1821 and 1845. One can recognize documents from that site by this URL in the location bar: <www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/> For an introduction to this site, select this link. For a guide to its contents, select this link.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online
The Texas State Historical Association is in the process of placing all of the back issues of the Quarterly on the Internet. At present, the first fifty volumes (1897-1947) are available. Within them is a treasure trove of transcribed primary source documents covering many aspects of the Texas past. Most relate to nineteenth-century events and people, although there is material for the early Spanish colonial era as well. For a guide to each of the volumes, select this link. The entire site is searchable.
The Second Flying Company of Alamo de Parras
This site, developed by Randell Tarin, has an emphasis on various aspects of the history of San Antonio from the eighteenth century until the mid-nineteenth century, with special attention to the Alamo through time. There are also documents relating to other aspects of Texas history for the period covered. To access the site, select this link.
Texas TidesThis is a project of a consortium mainly composed of several university and public libraries, museums, and public school districts in the eastern region of Texas. It contains a selection of primary source documents and images of artifacts in their various collections. Most of the material has to do with people and events in East Texas history. Stephen F. Austin State University's Ralph W. Steen Library is the lead institution in the consortium. You may access Texas Tides at this link. For a list of participating institutions, select this link.
Portal to Texas History
This project of the University of North Texas Libraries provides digital images of documents, books, maps, photographs, and artifacts in the collections of many Texas libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, and private collections. For a list of those institutions, etc., select this link. The site is especially rich in printed primary sources relating to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. To access the site, select this link.
Texas Treasures
This site, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, contains special Internet exhibits of documents and images of artifacts mainly about the Texas past from the Revolutionary era to the recent past. The exhibited documents are taken from the Commission's vast collections of primary source materials. To access the site, select this link.
The Tejano Voices Collection
This is a project of the University of Texas at Arlington Center for Mexican American Studies. It consists of seventy-seven interviews conducted by Dr. Angel Gutierrez, associate professor of political science at UT Arlington, with Tejano leaders across the state. [More interviews are expected to be added later.] They reflect the history of the Tejano community as it pressed for an end to racial segregation and for access to political power during the latter part of the twentieth century. For additional information about the project, click on this link. For more information about UTA's Center for Mexican American Studies, click on this link.
The Making of America Project
Part of this project is located at a University of Michigan site and part at a site at Cornell University. Most of the Civil War documents in the lists come from this project's online volumes of The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies and Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. In addition, there are valuable books and periodical articles having to do with nineteenth-century Texas.
Google Book SearchThis project involves the digitalization of a huge number of out-of-print books (and some others for which permission has been obtained from the copyright holders). Most of the books reside in research libraries in major universities. These materials include printed primary sources. Among those some deal wholly with Texas subjects; others contain some material on Texas. Also, some secondary source books have Texas history documents within them. The Google Book Search materials are fully searchable. For more information about the project, select this link. To access the "Advanced Search" function, select this link. You will probably want to check the "Full view" box for most searches. This will result in a list with just those books whose contents have been completely scanned.
Other Sources
The University of Texas at Austin Tarlton Law Library's Texas Constitutions Digitation Project
The University of Texas at Austin's Center for American History
Texas State University-San Marcos' Southwestern Writers Collection, Alkek Library
Southern Methodist University's Clements Center for Southwest Studies
The University of North Texas' Government Documents Department's Government Information Connection
The Texas State Historical Association's A Shared Past: Texas and the United States Since Reconstruction
Star of the Republic Museum Lesson Plans
The Texas Education Agency's Social Studies Center Primary Resources site
Armadillo: The HISD WWW Server (a service of the Houston Independent School District and Rice University)
The Institute of Texan Culture's Texas Memories oral history project
The Daughters of the Republic of Texas' Alamo site
Dallas Historical Society site
The Office of the Texas Secretary of State site
The Texas Navy Association's Texas Navies site
The Library of Congress' American Memory project
The National Archives and Records Administration's Digital Classroom
The University of Denver College of Law's Sweatt v. Painter: Archival and Textual Sources
Yale University Law School's Avalon project
Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day's American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement
The Department of History of Ohio State University's eHistory.com siteThe University of North Carolina's Documenting the American South
The University of California, Santa Barbara's The American Presidency Project
The University of California at Los Angeles' CLNet site
The TxGenWeb ProjectPBS's The West site
The Denton County History Page
The Seguin Family Historical Society site
Texas Bob's Documents of Texas History
Texas Escapes site
Lone Star Junction's Southwestern Classics Online and Documents of Early Texas
Galveston County Daily News' The 1900 Storm, Galveston Island, Texas: Remembering the Great Hurricane, September 8, 1900
Adena's History in the United States site
James Epperson's Jim's Civil War Pages
Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War
Company H, 4th Texas Voluntary Infantry site
The U.S.-Mexican War site (developed by the Descendants of Mexican War Veterans)
History Central: History's Home on the Internet
Digital History site (University of Houston and other entities)
Houghton Mifflin. College Division. Study Center. United States Resource Center: Primary Sources
The Abraham Lincoln Association's Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln site
The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute's New Deal Network
Patricia Adkins-Rochette's BourlandCivilWar.com site
Vincent Ferraro's Resources for the Study of International Relations and Foreign Policy (Mount Holyoke College)
NOTICE: If the owners of any of the collections listed above do not wish this website to provide links to documents at their sites, such links will be removed. Send an e-mail requesting removal to Roger Griffin.
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