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The Portal to Texas History

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The Portal to Texas History offers a digital gateway to the rich collections held in Texas libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, and private collections. Check out the Portal for cool old maps, books, letters, manuscripts and photographs.http://texashistory.unt.edu/The Portal to Texas History is hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries

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Anyone who loves Texas and Texas history!

My Blog

[Portrait of Aunt Molly and Musley Jr.]: Portal to Texas History

http://beta.texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapt... I'm beta testing the new "share" feature on the Portal redesign. People should be able to upload and share photos to facebook, myspace, digg, twit...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:30:00 GMT

World War I and II, part deux

Based on my last blog, a MySpace friend emailed to ask if I knew that Texas served as a training ground for WW I pilots - and yes, I did.  We have a number of photos on the Portal relating to tha...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:54:00 GMT

WWI and WWII Posters and Newsmaps

Hi Everyone! On our UNT Libraries Digital Collections site we have some great content on WWI and WWII. The Rare Book & Texana Collections includes among its holdings a collection of over 600 ori...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:46:00 GMT

Texas History Trading Cards! Download your own set

The Portal to Texas History is now offering Texas History Trading Cards!  They are free, so just download and print your own set.  In 4th and 7th grade Texas history, students have a set of ...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:48:00 GMT

Texas in the Civil War

Ive had some good emails from folks lately who are interested in learning about the types of materials we have about Texas in the Civil War.  So here ya go: A Soldiers Letters to Charming Nell...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:45:00 GMT

Get yer Summer Newsletter here!

Howdy, everyone!  To learn the latest on our projects, visit our news section to download a pdf of our Summer 2006 Newsletter.  You can also find brochures and links to news articles about t...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:00:00 GMT

Check out some very old books!

In addition to our other materials, we also have over 100 rare historic books online.  You can read them, search them, or just look at great illustrations.  We're planning on adding over 1,0...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:37:00 GMT

Over 70,000 Texas history items online and growing

That's right, we have over 70,000 pages of books, old letters, maps, and photographs online.  Check out our fantastic collections!  We have photographs documenting Texas from the 1850s to th...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:04:00 GMT

The Portal is now on MySpace!

The Portal to Texas History is now on MySpace! Check back often for updates about cool new content and new features.  Want to see old maps?  We have maps that date from the 1500s, up to the...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:08:00 GMT