Early Texas

1. A Glimpse of San Antonio in 1778
   • Juan Agustin Morfi
     
2. A Glimpse of Texas During the Early 19th Century
   • Migual Ramos de Arizpe
     
3. More Glimpses of Early 19th Century Texas (1828)
   • José María Sánchez
     

The Texas Revolution

1. Warnings about the Future of Texas
   • Manuel Mier y Terán
     
2. Tejano Leaders Favor Slavery in Texas
   • Juan Nepomuceno Seguin
     
3. Mexico's Leaders Condemn Slavery in Texas
   • Santa Anna
     
4. Excerpts from the Texas Slave Narratives
   • Andy Anderson
     
5. A Tejano Favors Anglo Immigration
   • Ayuntamiento
     
6. Do the People of Texas Have a Right to Declare Independence?
7. A Tejano Leader Calls for Support of the Texas Revolution
   • Juan Nepomuceno Seguin
     
8. The Alamo
   • Carlos E. Castañeda
     
9. Remembering the Alamo
   • Amelia Williams
     
10. A Mexican Official Calls on his Country to Re-Conquer Texas or Risk Losing More Territory
    • José Maria Tornel y Mendivil
      
11. An Abolitionist Calls Slavery the True Cause of the Texas Revolution
    • Benjamin Lundy
      

The Indians of Texas

1. The Principal Diplomat of the Cherokee Nation Defends His People of the Charge that they Were Forming an Alliance with Mexico
2. Texas' Second President Calls for the Expulsion or Extermination of the Republic's Indians
   • Mirabeau B. Lamar
     
3. Texas's Second President Denounces the Cherokees for Conspiring with Mexico
   • Mirabeau B. Lamar
     
4. Texas's Governor Seeks to Drive Indians from the Texas Plains
   • Richard Coke
     

The Mexican War

1. President James Polk's Instructions to His Minister to Mexico
   • James K. Polk
     
2. President James Polk Calls on Congress to Declare War on Mexico
   • James K. Polk
     
3. Abraham Lincoln Protests the Mexican War
   • Abraham Lincoln
     

Oppression and Resistance

1. A Tejano Describes How He has been Transformed into a Foreigner in His Own Land
   • John N. Seguín
     
2. Resistance to Oppression
3. Songs of Sorrow and Resistance

Texas and the Civil War

1. Frederick Law Olmsted Describes Texas
2. Juneteenth

Post-Bellum Texas

1. Reconstruction in Texas
   • John H. Reagan
     
2. Texas Black Codes
3. Intimidating Former Slaves
4. The Conditions of Tejanos in 1873
5. The Texas Farmers' Revolt
6. The Texas Legislature Attacks Trusts
7. Organized Labor in Texas
8. The Texas Populist Party Platform

Texas Enters the 20th Century

1. The Galveston Hurricane
2. Gregorio Cortez
3. The Texas Oil Boom Begins
   • Anthony F. Lucas
     

The Struggle for Equal Rights

1. Corridos & Immigration
2. Warnings About The Future of Texas 2
3. A Song of Resistance
4. A Mexican American Soldiers Describes the Killing of a Mexican Rancher's Daughter
   • P.C. Alamia
     
5. The Porvenir Massacre
   • Henry Warren
     
6. A Tejano Legislator Testifies Against the Texas Rangers
7. Texas's White-Only Primary Law Overturned
8. Punishing Mexican Immigrants
9. Repatriation During the Great Depression
10. The Supreme Court Rules that Texas's Democratic Party May Discriminate Against Blacks
    • Grovey v. Townsend
      
11. Emma Tenayuca Becomes a Labor Organizer in San Antonio
12. Texas's Ban on Blacks serving on Grand Juries Overturned
    • Smith v. Allwright
      
13. Felix Longoria
14. Desegregation of Texas Institutions of Higher Education
15. The Supreme Court Overturns the Exclusion of Mexican Americans from Juries
16. "Mexicanos Need to Control Their Own Destiny"
17. The Supreme Court Affirms the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants