Handbook of Texas Women
This project has a dedicated website with many additional features. Please visit: https://texaswomen.tshaonline.org

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The Handbook of Texas Women project strives to expand on the Handbook of Texas by promoting a more inclusive and comprehensive history of Texas. Texas women make Texas history, and TSHA wants to significantly recognize the various ways women have shaped the state’s history at home, across the state, nationally, and abroad. The impacts of women on Texas history are often overlooked, and as more and more people are accessing information using smartphones, tablets, and other mobile technologies, this project will seize upon the unprecedented opportunities of the digital age in order to reshape how Texas women’s history will be understood, preserved, and disseminated in the twenty-first century.
The Handbook of Texas Women project is a statewide educational and content development campaign focused on Texas Women’s History by the TSHA for the Handbook of Texas. TSHA is establishing this project to capitalize on the unprecedented opportunities of the information age by updating existing Handbook of Texas entries on Texas women while adding new scholarship, all compiled and accessible for free through our digital portal.
This project is of such importance that it will be led by Dr. Jessica Brannon-Wranosky of Texas A&M University-Commerce, an Executive Advisory Committee, and Managing Editor of the Handbook of Texas, Dr. Brett Derbes. The TSHA will ensure that Texas history scholarship is supported, promoted, and disseminated at the highest levels. Through this emphasis on sound scholarship, the Association can provide authoritative and trustworthy information for anyone seeking to learn more about Texas.
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This project has a dedicated website with many additional features.

Table of Contents
- Activism and Social Reform
- Agriculture
- Archeology
- Architecture
- Aviation and Aerospace
- Business
- Education
- Art and Music Schools
- Board Members
- Community Colleges
- Defunct Colleges and Universities
- Defunct Elementary and Secondary Schools
- Educators
- Extracurricular Activities
- Laws, Legislation, and Law Schools
- Lawyers, Civil Rights Activists, and Legislators
- Non-traditional Learning Centers and Special Programs
- Private Elementary and Secondary Schools
- Private Four-Year Colleges and Universities
- Public Four-Year Colleges and Universities
- Publications and School Presses
- School Principals and Superintendents
- School Trustees and Regents
- State Officials and Agencies
- Theological Seminaries and Colleges
- University Presidents and School Administrators
- Environment and Geography
- Exploration
- Founders and Pioneers
- Health and Medicine
- Journalism
- LGBT
- Labor
- Law, Law Enforcement, and Outlaws
- Associations and Movements
- Feuds
- Infamous Towns and Places
- Law Officers
- Lawless Activities and Outlawed Activity
- Lawyers
- Outlaws, Criminals, Prostitutes, Gamblers, and Rebels
- Prison Administrators and Reformers
- Prisons and Correctional Facilities
- Rebellions, Raids, and Wars
- Riots
- Sheriffs
- Victims of Mob Violence and Police Brutality
- Military
- Museums, Libraries, and Archives
- Music
- Oil and Gas Industry
- Organizations
- Patrons, Collectors, and Philanthropists
- Peoples
- Performing Arts
- Politics and Government
- Civic and Community Leaders
- Court Cases and Controversies
- Courts and Judiciary
- First Lady/First Gentleman of Texas
- Government Officials
- House
- Senate
- State Legislators
- Fiftieth Legislature (1947)
- Fifty-eighth Legislature (1963)
- Fifty-fifth Legislature (1957)
- Fifty-first Legislature (1949-1950)
- Fifty-fourth Legislature (1955)
- Fifty-second Legislature (1951)
- Fifty-seventh Legislature (1961-1962)
- Fifty-sixth Legislature (1959)
- Fifty-third Legislature (1953-1954)
- Forty-eighth Legislature (1943)
- Forty-first Legislature (1929-1930)
- Forty-fourth Legislature (1935-1936)
- Forty-ninth Legislature (1945)
- Forty-second Legislature (1931-1932)
- Forty-seventh Legislature (1941)
- Forty-sixth Legislature (1939)
- Forty-third Legislature (1933-1934)
- Seventieth Legislature (1987)
- Seventy-first Legislature (1989-1990)
- Sixtieth Legislature (1967-1968)
- Sixty-fifth Legislature (1977-1978)
- Sixty-fourth Legislature (1975)
- Sixty-ninth Legislature (1985-1986)
- Sixty-seventh Legislature (1981-1982)
- Sixty-sixth Legislature (1979)
- Sixty-third Legislature (1973)
- Judges
- Ranching and Cowboys
- Religion
- Science
- Sports and Recreation
- Visual Arts
- Women
- Writers, Authors, Publications, and Literature