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July 21, 2021

New Spotlight Artist Page! Finally

I've finally added a page for the THL spotlight artists.  It is still a work in progress.  Check it out and go listen to the great music of Mando Salas and Jerrod Flusche. Mando Salas - ROSMAND Mando Salas is a Texas Country musician a…

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Jan. 26, 2021

Lesson 13: Texas and America in 1491

 

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Dec. 14, 2020

Additional Information on the Jumanos provided by Makowa De

It's a pleasure to share a couple of bits of information shared by a Jumano historian, Makowa De: 1.  I enjoyed lesson 9 obviously. I do want to make an observation however. When the Spanish arrived they did not have a sound in their vocabular…

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Dec. 14, 2020

Why Study History?

History Lets look at the uses and nature of history again, as we briefly did in the very first Texas History Lesson. History is a good source of personal and social identity.  History can help us understand the problems we face today. We…

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Dec. 14, 2020

The North Texas Region and the Development of Water Resources in the Trinity River Basin of Texas, 1840-1998

Hello everyone, I thought that I would share a link to my thesis that I worked on at the University of North Texas.  It was a lot of fun and I got a little carried away with the length of the project.  But I'm pretty happy with how it t…

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Nov. 8, 2020

Karankawas.com

The image above is from Karankawas.com an excellent website on the very interesting Karankawa people of the Texas Gulf Coast.  The site is run by Tim Seiter, a PhD student at Southern Methodist University, who is currently writing a book on t…

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Oct. 7, 2020

Welcome to Texas History Lessons

This website will act as a supplement to the THL podcast.  It will have links to interesting articles and history resources, recommended reading lists and much more.  

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