Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin Texas
Introduction We were first introduced to Elisabet Ney through a book given to us by our friend Steve. The book is A Twist at the End by Steven Saylor. It is historical fiction around...
Category: Texas History
Texas Walk of Stars in Austin
If you’ve been to a convention in Austin and entered the Convention Center from Trinity Street, you’ve probably seen stars in the sidewalk with a name on them. You may have walked over a...
TSHA Annual Meeting 2019
The 123rd annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) was held in Corpus Christi from February 28 – March 2, 2019. I’ve previously attended parts of several annual meetings, but this is...
book notes – Ãlvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: The Great Pedestrian of North and South America by Donald E. Chipman
The subtitle of this book on Cabeza de Vaca says it all. From the summary on the back cover: Between 1528 and 1536, explorer Ãlvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca trekked an estimated 2,480 to...
Texas and the Mexican War by Charles M. Robinson III
In between the Texas Revolution (1835-36) and the U.S. Civil War (1861-65), there was the war between the United States and Mexico (1846-1847). The United States fought a war with Mexico for several reasons: annexation of...
A History of the French Legation in Texas by Kenneth Hafertepe
Driving south on I-35 through Austin, Texas, I often wonder two things: why didn’t I take the tollway so I wouldn’t be stuck in traffic? what is The French Legation, pointed towards by sign...
The Battle of San Jacinto by James W. Pohl
Every kid who has gone through elementary school in or around Houston has been to the San Jacinto Monument on a field trip (and skinned a knee going down the stairs of the Battleship...
The Battle of the Alamo by Ben H. Proctor
This 2nd book in TSHA’s (Texas State Historical Association) Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series (list of the series here) starts on December 4, 1835, with Ben Milam challenging the Texas rag tag army...
Texas Popular History Series
We’ve been working with the good folks at the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), publishers of the Texas Almanac, to convert an excellent series of 19 popular history books. This series, the Fred Rider...
Texas Almanac 2010-2011
When I was a kid, every Christmas my mother would wrap an Almanac under the tree. This was back in the day before the Internet (yes, kids, there was such a time), so these...