LibGuides: Texas History: Texas History

Texas History

Subject Guide

Andrew Crews

Subjects: Genealogy, Texana

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Handbook of Texas This link opens in a new window
The New Handbook of Texas is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories.

Texas Digital Sanborn Maps This link opens in a new window
Digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years.
Texas Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Texas Reference Center includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure.

Our Publications

The following publications are produced by the Texana/Genealogy Department.

South Texas Researcher
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This monthly newsletter seeks to keep those interested in South Texas informed about events in the area and news from Texana/Genealogy.
The Explorer
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The Explorer is a semi-annual journal published by Texana/Genealogy and distributed to libraries and societies across the country.
The Texas Biographical Gazetteer-The Texas 200
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A two volume set which indexes two hundred books from the Texana Collection with biographical sketches and information on people with a Texas connection. The indexed books were published between the early 1900s and 2004, and include individuals from early explorers to the present in all subject fields.
A List and Description of Deserters from the United States Army During the Mexican American War, 1846-1848
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The list is a compilation of lists originally published in The National Police Gazette from 1860 through 1850. Along with the name, age, physical description, unit, civilian occupation, and other information is included.
1895 San Antonio Voter Registration List
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This book lists 10,587 registered voters for the City election of 1895 with their addresses, ward number, and ethnicity.

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All that is Texas

Interested in Texas? Its history? Its music? Its animal life? This is the place for all things Texan. We hope this guide will lead you along interesting paths. It will change now and then, so visit us every so often.

New items in the Texana Collection

From My Mother's Hands by Susie Kelly Flatau
ISBN: 1556227868
Guarding the Border by Ward L. Schrantz
ISBN: 9781603440967
Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer by Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez
ISBN: 9780826342720
Pancho Villa and Black Jack Pershing by James W. Hurst
ISBN: 9780313350047
Texas Blues by Alan B. Govenar
ISBN: 158544605X
Water in Texas by Andrew Sansom
ISBN: 9780292718098

Featured Author

Bowen and Hardin

Chuck Parsons is a Texan by choice and frequent researcher in our colllections. He has written hundreds of journal articles and book reviews, as well as books, related to the wild west. He lives in Luling and is editor of the Wild West History Association Saddlebag.

Web Sites of Interest

The Following web sites provide detailed information about Texas History.