Texas 
Historical Links

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This is a collection of sites pretaining to the study of Texas Social Studies.
 

Texas
State of Texas Web Site
This is the official web site for the State of Texas.
Texas (city link Project)
Many Texas cities are linked here. Other links pretaining to travel in Texas are also found here.
Wild Texas: Parks, Nature & Travel Guide
This has good information about the parks in Texas
Texas State Symbols Capital Constitution Flags Maps Song
Americana Online: Austin (Texas)
The Guide To Texas Outside
Here find information on hiking, biking, camping, boating, fishing, sailing, hunting, parks, hotels, golf, retirement, scuba diving, and just about anything else you can do outside in the great state of Texas!
Texas Highways
This is a link to the Texas Highways Magazine and contains infromation about Texas that changes regularly.
Texas
A quick look at Texas provided by the Texas Department of Transportation which includes the symbols, capital, flowers, and facts especially for kids.
Travel Texas: Postcards
Travel Texas provides pictures of the various areas of Texas.
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Historical Sites
WPA Life Histories--Home Page
Click through this site to find Texas and view the life histories of the poeple listed. These titles are mostly first-person accounts of life in Texas collected during the Great Depression.
Texas Historic Sites Atlas
The Atlas features more than 200, 000 historic site records, including Historical Marker inscriptions and National Register of Historic Places property photos, as well as museum exhibits and sawmill records from 52 East Texas counties.
The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection (American Memory, Library of Congress)
History Channel
At this enter Texas in the search for information on Stephen F. Austin, Mexican War, Sam Houston, Oil Industry, John Tyler, George Herbert Walker Bush
Hall of History
This is a site of several anotated sites for information about Texas.

The Learning Place
This has some links to other research areas especially for teachers.
The Handbook of Texas Online
The Handbook of Texas Online is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories
 
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