This is a great resource for students working on their entries for the History Fair. http://txindependence.org/sources.php Books & Diaries Clothing Documents Furnishings Household Accessories Images Maps Personal artifacts Tools & Equipment Toys Adornment Agriculture Amusements Art Bedding Childhood Communication Economy Foodways Furniture Health & Hygiene Independence Lighting Medicine Music Personal Gear Religion Signers Technology Textiles…
Tell us your favorite part of the 2014 Texas Independence Day Celebration. Share pictures? Help us plan 2015. Join the fun and “Keep Texas History Alive!”
Student History Competition Rules Entry Rules and Judging Criteria for each category: 2015 Theme “Leadership & Legacy in Texas History” Student Cash Awards ($150 best of show. Awards in each category and each level: $75 first, $50 second & $25 third) Senior Scholarship presented by the Texas Heroes Foundation. (Click here to see application form.)
Vendors have been officially invited to participate in the 2015 TIDC even. Put it on your calendar!
DONATE TODAY! Texas History and culture seems to be fading from our horizon. Each year there’s less and less time to remember and teach our history. Other studies fill the pages of history books and the names of our heroes are squeezed into a small footnote. Other names have never received the honor and celebration…
http://youtu.be/JLwlRJtfpWc Texas needs you! It’s time that Texans celebrate Texas Independence Day. We need volunteers, ready to help, support and join us in making Texas Independence, February 28 – March 2, bigger and better. The focus remains on education, however we’re rustling up a wagon load of fun to go with it. From Bulls on…
Volunteers Needed! Planned Activities for 2015 Texas Independence Day Celebration of North Texas at Granbury February 28 and March 1, 2015 (All plans pending.) Vendors around the Square offering crafts, homemade products, items of Texas in 1800s Parade from GISD Admin to Square with entries of Old Texas – and Lots of horses. Chuck Wagon…
ROLL CALL OF TEXAS HEROES – SIDNEY SHERMAN- HIS FLAG AND BATTLE CRY It would be interesting to know just what percentage of the residents of the present day city of Sherman, Texas or Sherman county would be able to give an account of the life and times of Sidney Sherman , for whom both…
Perhaps there are those of you who can remember the little “comic books” entitled “Texas History Movies” put out by the Magnolia Petroleum Company. These cleverly written and illustrated little books were a prime source of Texas history for school kids all over Texas. They had a unique way of making history entertaining which was…
When I was a boy growing up in the Texas Panhandle, Hereford was known nationally as “the town without a toothache” due to the nearly perfect natural fluoridation of the water supply. The fact that it was the county seat of Deaf Smith county was not of general interest. All we school kids knew of…