NOTE:Titles with
below = Lone Star College System college users access off campus with valid college ID/library card number
Titles marked as free web = access without a library card
All other titles = off campus by HCPL & Lone Star College System library card holders
(EBSCO) Articles from journals, magazines, newspapers on a variety of topics.
(Texas State Historical Association) Encyclopedia entries on Texas history, culture, and geography.
(ProQuest) Covers the years of 1851-2003 of the newspaper with full-text and full-image articles.
(EBSCO) Features "over 1500 complete books; 100 full-text journals and magazines; 58,000 documents; 43,000 biographies; more than 12,000 photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of video."
(ProQuest) Books, scholarly journals, maps, photos, and other materials on world and U.S. History.
(ProQuest) Articles from journals, magazines, national newspapers including the
Houston Chronicle and National Public Radio (NPR) selected programs.
(ProQuest) Maps of property and land-use records for Texas towns and cities for past 100 years.
Selected Magazines & Journals Related to Texas History
American Heritage - current one year
American History - current one year
Journal of Southern History - May 2004 to present
Texas Highways - current one year
Texas Monthly - current one year
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Selected Texas History Books
REF 305.488 Win - Black Texas Women: A Sourcebook
REF 310 Tex - Texas Almanac
REF 911.764 Ste - Historical Atlas of Texas
REF 920 Dav - Legendary Texians
REF 975.003 Enc - Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
REF 976.4 Bri - Bricks Without Straw: A Comprehensive History of African Americans in Texas
REF 976.4 Cas - My Fellow Texans: Governors of Texas in the 20th Century
REF 976.4 Che - Alamo Almanac and Book of Lists
REF 976.4 Doc - Documents of Texas History
REF 976.4 Feh - Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
REF 976.4 Hen - The Chief Executives of Texas: From Stephen F. Austin to John B. Connally, Jr.
REF 976.4 New - The New Handbook of Texas (see also Web version, The Handbook of Texas Online)
REF 978.002 Zem - Chronology of the American West
- Getting Started in Oral Traditions Research from the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, an agency of the Government of the Northwest Territories in Canada, features a manual on collecting and organizing oral history
- Historical Text Archive edited by Don Mabry, Ph.D. and former faculty member at Mississippi State University provides articles, books, maps, and photographs on several historical time periods and subjects including Santa Anna, Jane Long, and the book, Neighbors, Mexico and the United States
- National Atlas of the United States of America from the Department of the Interior allows users to make customized maps of political or physical areas
- Oral History Workshop on the Web from the Baylor University Institute for Oral History provides a guide for developing oral history collections
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Texas Maps from the University of Texas @ Austin - features digitized maps from Texas - past and present
- Texas Historic Sites Atlas from the Texas Historical Commission includes "more than 200,000 historic site records, including data on Texas Historical Markers and National Register of Historic Places properties in Texas."
- Texas History Links from the Texas State Historical Association features an extensive list of links to important sites around the state
- Texas Tides -- Tides in Early Texas History digitizes Museum and archival material from Nacogdoches and Huntsville libraries and museums including Stephen F. Austin State University and Sam Houston State University providing a chronological and cultural view of Texas History.
- Texas Treasures from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission features digitized Texas historical documents accompanied by explanatory material
- WPA Life Histories from Texas from the Library of Congress presents 445 oral histories of Texans written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940
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