Musty old documents, digging in archives, the thrill of discovery!
Music
Great Texas musicians and bands like Brave Combo, Willie Nelson, Joe Ely, Big Daddy Alright, Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, Lyle Lovett, Bowling for Soup, the One O'Clock Lab Band, Billy Joe Shaver, Peter Schmidt and his Gentlemen Scholars, Kentucky Fried Texas, Necrotones
Movies
The Alamo; Paris, Texas; Texas Chainsaw Massacre; The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom; Terror in a Texas Town
Television
History Channel
Books
Gone to Texas by Randolph B. Campbell
Heroes
Sam Houston, David Crockett, Sarah Cochran, Jane Long, Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker, Lorenzo de Zavala, Adina de Zavala, Stephen F. Austin
About me: The Portal to Texas History offers a digital gateway to the rich collections held in Texas libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, and private collections. Check out the Portal for cool old maps, books, letters, manuscripts and photographs.
http://texashistory.unt.edu/
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Deferred Adjudication in Texas - it is NOT A CONVICTION in TEXAS but Rick Perry and many in the state of Texas are trying to make it the same as a conviction.
WE ARE FIGHTING TO HAVE ALL DEFERRED ADJUDICATION RECORDS IN TEXAS EXPUNGED, LIKE THEY SHOULD BE!!! IT'S TIME FOR TEXAS TO HONOR ITS CONTRACT WITH OVER 2 MILLION CITIZENS AND GIVE THEM THEIR RIGHTS BACK!!!
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"It is because I love him that I wish to be foremost where our noblest will be found---under the Palmetto flag. Nothing should make him for one moment forget his holiest right. The right to defend the soil & honor of Carolina." -Lucy Holcombe Pickens
The burned ruins of Columbia, South Carolina, from the State House steps, 1865
"But amidst all, my greatest wish is that so much heroism, and suffering, and blood, may not at least be uselessly expended; and this, and every other record of them may freely be given to the flames, if from the ashes 'shall arise a bird which shall avenge them all.'" -Lucy Holcombe Pickens
"But it is not a contest for victory, but the sword drawn by this brave little state [South Carolina] is a solemn & heroic protest against wrong, & in vindication of our natural rights---...you must feel...that I am where duty & honor demand me, and whatever dangers surround me, I will be with God's help, true to my name and blood..." -Lucy Holcombe Pickens
"We do not forget! The vacant chair never loses its pathos and pain for us; the dear voice silent in death, still speaks to our constant heart, and the fair young nation drowned to death in the blood of her martyred sons, claims our truest, deepest, our loving tho slient homage." --Lucy Holcombe Pickens
