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The Texas State Historical Association announces the release of My Texas, a new interactive Web site where visitors can share
the stories and reminiscences that make Texas and its history special.
These stories are collected in an online database that is fully searchable, sorted by category (such as small-town Texas,
famous Texans, Texas sports, and others), and linked to relevant entries in the Handbook of Texas Online. Users thus participate in the construction of a new Texas history, unprecedented in its depth and richness, that adds to
the existing core scholarly narrative in the award-winning Handbook.
There is no charge for telling a story in My Texas, though we do ask you to register with us so we can contact you in case
we have questions about the stories you submit.
We invite you to visit http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/mytexas/ (or just click the My Texas link on the TSHA Online home page). There you can read the stories submitted by others and contribute
your own. These stories add the texture of direct experience to history as traditionally written and taught.
So mine those long-buried memories, dig out those old letters from that trunk in the attic, and try to remember what Grandma
used to tell you about the “good old days.” There’s a whole world of stories waiting to be told—and read—in My Texas.
My Texas combines the information technology expertise of the Digital Library Services Division of the University of Texas
at Austin with the content expertise of the Texas State Historical Association and the University of Texas at Austin Center
for Studies in Texas History. This combination creates a way for the Internet community to participate in developing a new
resource reflecting the personal dimensions of Texas history.
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