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Texas history from different perspectives. texashistorylessons.com Created by Michael Sparkman
Hey there. Hope you’re doing well. Here’s a new essay for your edification. I hope it brings you joy.
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This I Believe
What Made Dobie Feel Big
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Laredo by James McMurtry. Check it out.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, 1795-1796
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Cowboy Life in West Texas by John A. Lomax
Texas History Lessons · Episode
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A Texan's Guide to Life -- J. Frank Dobie
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A Texan's Guide to Life -- J. Frank Dobie
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Cowboy Life in West Texas by John A. Lomax
Texas History Lessons · Episode
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Peter Josyph
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LOLITA’S PARIS APARTMENT WHERE SHE LIVES ALONE AND READS COLETTE, BALZAC, AND E.M. FORSTER (Acrylic and Ink on Handmade Paper)
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Chickasaw Historical Society
YouTube video by Chickasaw TV
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, 1795-1796
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Historical Marker Database
about 1 year ago
#OtD
in 1839, the Cordova Rebellion ended in the War for Texas Independence.
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#TexasHistory
#HistoricalMarker
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Battleground Prairie Historical Marker
(A historical marker located in Seguin in Guadalupe County, Texas.)
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#OtD
in 1840, the Battle of Plum Creek was fought in Texas.
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#TexasHistory
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#usindianwars
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Battle of Plum Creek Historical Marker
.d The harsh anti-Indian policies of President Mirabeau B. Lamar and Mexican efforts to weaken the Republic of Texas stirred Indian hostilities. (A historical marker located in Lockhart in Caldwell C...
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#OtD
in 1880, a Methodist Episcopal Church was built near
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beginning its legacy in the community.
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Phillips Cemetery Historical Marker
Early settlers John and Nancy Phillips deeded land at this site to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1880. A small church was built and was dedicated on March 13, 1880. (A historical marker l...
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This was a fun one to make.
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A Texan's Guide to Life -- J. Frank Dobie
Texas History Lessons · Episode
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Truth can’t be institutionalized. It can be learned and it can spread, but there is no curriculum for intellectual honesty. — J. Frank Dobie
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Nothing is too trivial for art, but good art treats nothing in a trivial way. Nothing is too provincial for the regional writer, but he cannot be provincial-minded toward it. Luminosity is not stumbled into. - J. Frank Dobie
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New episode about Bride Neill Taylor and the TSHA is available now.
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Bride Neill Taylor and the Foundation of the Texas State Historical Association
Texas History Lessons · Episode
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over 1 year ago
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The evil that men do lives after them. — Shakespeare
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How do I respond to this? I like to hear about what I get wrong with suggestions on how to improve—but this does nothing.
over 1 year ago
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Coming soon: Texas History Lessons + Classic Texas Books in print, e-book and audio versions (with notes, essays and very affordable prices) = Texas History Library.
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Fund James Gedda & The Big Breakfast's Debut Album
South of Mars is finished, help me put it out into the world and get it heard! | Check out 'Fund James Gedda & The Big Breakfast's Debut Album' on Indiegogo.
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Carve Her Name
over 1 year ago
It's ALIVE!
#OnThisDay,
1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' was published anonymously. Her gothic novel was also one of the first science-fiction novels.
#ReadMoreWomen
#LiteraryWomen
#WomenInHistory
#OTD
#History
#WomensHistory
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Sara Cress
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A few weeks ago I picked up this piece of Texas ephemera in an antiques mall. I finally read through it last night and, to be honest, the poetry is pretty terrible. It's all sing-song rhymes about the bravery of the men who settled Texas. BUT it did lead me down a "Houston Pen Women" rabbit hole...
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Alt National Park Service
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A good hiking tip!
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“It avails not, time nor place—distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence, Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd…” Walt Whitman
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Derrick G. Jeter’s Blood Touching Blood is so good. The story, the quality of the writing, the descriptive scenes of the land and the interior landscape of the characters, and the historical context within the narrative are superb. Get a copy to enjoy. Blood Touching Blood
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Amazon.com
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Breakfast dinner and supper
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This episode and the others on the Texas Revolution are a success and a failure. Secret: There are parts that I am very pleased with but there’s a lot missing. The goal is to fill in the missing parts in the future.
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Victory and Death: The Battle of San Jacinto
Texas History Stories · Episode
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)
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ₜᵣᵤₘₚ becomes president again in thirty days. And as if that isn't bad enough, the Texas Legislature convenes in twenty-four.
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One of the strangest things I’ve done this year: A listener offered to book and pay for me to stay the night at Goliad and I politely declined.
over 1 year ago
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I just wrote one of the best passages I’ve ever written. No. It’s probably the best. What’s nice is that I already see how to make it better.
over 1 year ago
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Ben Johnson
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Latest blog dropped
@refusing2forget.bsky.social
. Lobe how
@tbowmanhist.bsky.social
channels the voices of his students. Our scholarship has made a difference!
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Today
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Tonight
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Monica D. Styles
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The 1522 Christmas Day rebellion on Diego Columbus’s sugar plantation is another example. It is the first large-scale revolt of enslaved people. Festive!
#merrychristmas
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The Wild West Extravaganza podcast is amazing and this episode deserves an award.
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The Escape of Chief Satanta
The Wild West Extravaganza · Episode
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I just discovered a novel written in the 1870s about the Republican Army of the North’s Texas campaign—or the Gutierrez Magee filibuster. This is what makes me excited.
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I am loving this new novel by Derrick G. Jeter. I hope to finish it this weekend.
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I said 3 or 4. Then I decided to make a list. And…I was way off.
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I have at least 3 or 4 projects that I’ve been working on for about a year or more and, of course, I just started a new one: The Raven in the Lion’s Den - Houston and His Enemies.
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Jack Nicholson’s Wisdom to Saul Rubinek in Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood
YouTube video by Jog Road Productions
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Robert Julian Onderonk, Bluebonnet Scene 2, Date Unknown
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Deborah Lee-Talbot
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This is what I've grown to appreciate about Pacific History, there's a good amount of ed. volumes about the methods and historians. Be good to see more ed. collections about women...
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American Historical Association
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The AHR’s December 2024 issue is now available. This issue inaugurates the annual publication of a special issue of the journal. Inside the issue authors explore how historical context and contingency shape and inflect resilience. 🗃️
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Volume 129 Issue 4 | The American Historical Review | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the American Historical Association. Publishes research that brings together scholarship from every major field of historical study. Articles include original interpretation an...
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"E.L. Doctorow talked about the way he writes, and it’s like you have a car on the road, and the headlights illuminate three feet of what’s ahead of the car. He writes what’s in those headlights, and he keeps going as he drives." --Raven Leilani
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