Texas History offers insight into historical events in Texas with books, DVDs, blogs, and more. Discover more about the rich Texas history with our abundance of resources.

The Portal to Texas History periodically offers mini-grants for its Rescuing Texas History series. Each grant provides up to $1,000 of digitization services to libraries, museums, historical societies, and other groups that house historical materials. All of the materials are scanned at UNT Libraries and hosted on the Portal. "I collect old Texas photographs.

Courtesy Texas Beyond History, a public education service of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin. 3,000 BCE. 3,000 BCE The First Farms. More than 5000 years ago in present-day Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, people began to grow corn, beans, and squash.

Texas is the leading crude oil- and natural gas-producing state in the U.S. In 2011, it also produced more cattle, sheep, hay, cotton and wool than any other state.

Texas History at Home. As families are creating new routines and learning how to educate students from home, we are providing free instructive resources about Texas history, preservation, and heritage tourism. We’ll continue to add new content, so continue to check back to this page.

History of Texas Early history. The ancestors of the West Texas Native Americans lived in camps perhaps as long as 37,000 years ago. Settlement. By the 1730s the Spanish had sent more than 30 expeditions into Texas. San Antonio, which by 1718 housed a... Revolution and the republic. Learn about the ...

17th Century Texas History Timeline. 1629 - Jumano Indians requested Spanish missionaries from New Mexico to travel to the vicinity of present-day San Angelo and instruct the Jumanos about Christianity. 1682 - First Spanish mission, Corpus Christi de la Isleta, is established a few miles from present-day El Paso.

The earliest settlers to the area with a local Caddo tribe, the Nacodgoche who came to East Texas around 800 A.D. Vistors to Nacogdoches can look forward to beautiful brick-lined streets in the historic downtown district, several antique stores, local restaurants, and lovely nature walks.

The Handbook consists of overview, general, and biographical entries focused on the entire history of Texas from the indigenous Native Americans and the Prehistoric Era to the state’s diverse population and the Modern Age. These entries emphasize the role Texans played in state, national, and world history.