/r/texashistory
A place to share and discuss history of the great state of Texas!
A place to share and discuss Texas history.
Posts should be focused on the history of Texas. Posts with no reference to Texas history will be removed.
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Floss Candy stand at the Gonzales County Fair in 1939. Although machine spun cotton candy was first made in 1897 the modern cotton candy machine was invented in September 1905.
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"The impossible catch." Longhorn Noble Doss made this catch on the third play of the game which set up Pete Layden's one-yard touchdown run on the very next play. UT would win this game 7-0 over A&M. November 28, 1940
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Texas Revolution
Can anyone recommend some good books about the revolution? My great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Rusk, played a significant role in the revolution and later helped bring Texas into statehood. I've recently developed a strong interest in this topic and would love to learn more.
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Downtown Bastrop in 1905. At the time the city had roughly 2,000 residents
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Pulling roasting ears for Thanksgiving from corn planted on Labor Day in Breckenridge, Texas - 1934
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Mrs. John H. Wood shops for a Thanksgiving turkey at the Haymarket Plaza in San Antonio, 1941. That year Thanksgiving fell on November 27th. A week and a half before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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President Harry S Truman bestows the Medal of Honor on Marcario García. On November 27, 1944, the man from Houston singlehandedly destroyed two German gun emplacements, capturing four prisoners. Wounded in the action he continued to fight until his unit's objective was taken.
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Second Lady, Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson poses with two 40-pound Thanksgiving turkeys which she accepted today for herself and the Vice President, and for the President and Mrs. Kennedy. November 16, 1962
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Comprehensive catalogue of Texana books?
I suspect there are plenty of you who, like myself, can regularly be found haunting the Texana section of your local Half-Price books... so I've been wondering if any of yall know a good resource that keeps track of such books?
I usually scour the bibliographies of ones I already own or pull up the publisher information for anything else they've published, but having all that info pooled together in one place to casually browse would make finding new books much easier. It would be even better if it keeps up to date with new books being published. Does any site like that exist?
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William Henry Duty and his family outside their home in Bell County around 1910.
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Looking east at what is now the intersection of I-35 and highway 290 in Austin Texas - 1950s
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Shack of WWI war veteran with view along Nueces Bay. Corpus Christi, 1938. Photo by Russell Lee.
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The Beaumont Barbecue Restaurant in Dallas, 1947. Opened by Tom Forward in 1937, the Green Book listed the Beaumont as one of only two BBQ's (and five restaurants all together) in Texas as safe to visit for African Americans in the 1930's.
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University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal instructs quarterback James Street in the 1970 Cotton Bowl game. UT would defeat Notre Dame 21 - 17.
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Grabbing a bit to eat at the San Angelo Fat Stock show in November 1939. Photo taken by Russell Lee.
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Polaroid photograph of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, taken an estimated one-sixth of a second after the fatal head shot. Friday, November 22, 1963, Elm Street, Dealey Plaza, Dallas
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The Austin convention center on November 22, 1963.
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Stevie Ray Vaughn switches guitars without skipping a beat with help of his roadie, Rene Martinez. Austin, 1989
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The USS Texas (BB 35) just outside of the Norfolk Naval Yard. Portsmouth, VA, March 15, 1943.
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Kilgore, Texas - 1960
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On this day in Texas History, November 20, 1943: Staff Sgt. William James Bordelon of San Antonio, and First Lt. William Dean Hawkins of El Paso, both earn the Medal of honor for separate actions during the Battle of Tarawa. Neither man would survive the battle.
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Llano County, Texas 1875 Map
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High school students in Pleasanton, Atascosa County, work on a project together in the Fall of 1957. Earlier that year the town had overwhelmingly voted to desegregate their public schools.
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