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Bexar Genealogy: The Founding of Bexar

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a brief history of the people and events leading to the founding of San Antonio, Texas.
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Institute of Texan Cultures: Texans One and All

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teaching guide presents 26 immigrant groups of Texas, along with activities. The groups are organized by the different types of push and pull factors that impacted on their decisions to immigrate, and a section on assimilation is...
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University of Texas at Austin

Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection: Historical Maps of Texas

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of historical maps contains a wide variety of maps from various parts of Texas and from different parts of history. Each map is accompanied by a brief description and is clear and easy to read.
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Ranching

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the history of ranching in the state of Texas, and how this practice shaped the state's history.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Time Line

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A time line showing when the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were built.
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Edward. Moore and Texarch Associates: Texas Indians: The Karankawa Indians

For Students 4th - 8th
The history of the Karankawa of Texas is discussed, their way of life, and their interactions with Europeans. Only a few of them seem to survive to today.
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Tx Transparency: Sources of Revenue: State Taxes in Texas 1977 2014 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This in-depth publication is intended as a quick guide to the history and current status of Texas state revenue sources.
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Oil and Gas Industry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This informational text piece has everything students want to know about the history of the Texas oil industry beginning in the sixteenth century to modern times.
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the history of the agricultural industry and how it shaped the great state of Texas throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Gonzales Memorial Museum: Come and Take It Cannon

For Students 4th - 8th
Explains the story behind the cannon that the Mexicans tried to capture at the Battle of Gonzales on October 2, 1835. The first shot of the Texas Revolution was fired from the cannon that day.
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Almanac: Ranching in a Changing Land

For Students 9th - 10th
Read how the traditional Texas professions of ranching and farming have changed throughout the history of Texas.
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Texas Beyond History: Uncovering Camp Ford

For Students 9th - 10th
This site introduces some recent research based on archaeological efforts and proceeds to the history of Camp Ford, a Confederate run prisoner of war camp.
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Texas Beyond History: Early Ranching on the Northern Frontier of New Spain

For Students 9th - 10th
The history of early ranching during the westward expansion and the cattle boom from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century.
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Robert Runyon's Photographs of the Mexican Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
A history and some photographs taken of events from the Mexican Revolution.
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Lone Star Junction

Lone Star Junction: Lorenzo De Zavala (1789 1836)

For Students 4th - 8th
A short biography of Lorenzo de Zavala that outlines his many accomplishments in Mexican politics, and later in Texas.
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Seguin Descendants Historical Preservation: Erasmo Seguin

For Students 9th - 10th
Dig deep into the life of Erasmo Seguin, the sole representative from Texas to the constitutional convention after Mexico achieved independence from Spain. He helped to draft the Constitution of 1824 and was a major influence in the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The American Identity: An Artistic Reflection

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Given selected examples of American art, music, and literature, students will be able to identify the era of U.S. history that is reflected in the art.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Compare/contrast Themes and Genres in Literary Texts

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to compare and contrast themes and genre across history and cultures.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Nature Cat: Track That Animal!: Grade 3

For Students 3rd
Nature Cat, Daisy, Squeeks, and Hal had to track Sir Gallahad in Heartthrob Hamster. Animals leave clues behind that allow people to find out about where they've been. Learn about these clues tell you what kind of creatures have come by...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Computers Time Line

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A time line of the history of computers beginning in 1642.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Space Exploration Time Line

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides a time line of the history of space exploration.
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University of Oregon

Mapping History Project: Territorial Expansion of the u.s. 1783 1853

For Students 9th - 10th
Click on the sliding bar and watch how the United States territory grew with the Louisiana Purchase, Florida Acquisitions, Texas Annexation, Oregon Country, and Mexican Cession.
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Beer history.com: Beer History

For Students 9th - 10th
"A concise timeline of beer history by Prof. Linda Raley, Texas Tech University." The most important dates and developments in beer history from thousands of years ago to the present.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Astronomy Time Line

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A time line of the history of astronomy.

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