"History never looks like history when you are living through it," said John W. Gardner, the former U. S. secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Too often the insight and texture of actual experience are missing from academic history. Yet it is precisely that personal dimension of memory and recollection that can help bring history to life and highlight the vibrant interconnections woven into our shared past. My Texas creates a place for people to share personal reminiscences about Texas history—stories drawn from their own experiences or told to them by others. TSHA editors will match these stories with the scholarly narratives in the Handbook of Texas to create a people’s history of the Lone Star State unprecedented in its depth and richness. So mine those long-buried memories, retrieve those letters from the trunk in the attic, and try to remember what Grandma used to tell you about the good old days.