The Portal to Texas History is a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas.

The Portal to Texas History

A gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas.

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Collection Highlights

This section provides a sampling of some of our collections.

Texas Digital Newspaper Program

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Women's Lives in the Southwest

Historical, biographical, autobiographical, and fictional books telling the story of women living in the southwestern United States in the late …

Refugio County Newspaper Collection

Situated on the coast on the north bank of the Mission River, Refugio has been home to multiple newspaper titles …

Woman’s Wednesday Club

Scrapbooks from 1889 to 2008 highlight the activities of the Woman's Wednesday Club, whose members seek to better themselves and …

The Bellville Times

The Bellville Times, established in 1879, continues in publication today as the newspaper of record, serving the city of Bellville, …

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Featured Partner

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McWhiney History Education Group

The McWhiney History Education Group (formerly the Grady McWhiney Research Foundation) was chartered in 1996 as a Texas 501(c)3 private operating foundation. Its purpose is to further education on topics regarding the middle years of the 19th century in American history, topics in Texas history and culture, and topics in military history. The McWhiney Group seeks to promote, encourage, and fund research, writing, symposia, and publishing on subjects of historical significance. It further seeks to make this information available to the public through both traditional educational vehicles and electronic media such as the Internet.

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News and Announcements

Horse Photos Featured in New Book

The UNT Libraries recently published Through the Lenses of Ray Bankston and Don Shugart, a captivating sample of the extensive collection of prints and negatives held in the Libraries’ Special Collections.

Ray Bankston and Don Shugart were two of the most prolific photographers of American Quarter Horses and horse show events in the South and Southwest during the last four decades of the twentieth century.

Their work is also featured in The Portal to Texas History’s Ray and Joyce Bankston Dalco Photography and Don Shugart Photography Collections.

What we do: Educate, Preserve, Build

Hundreds of years of Texas' cultural heritage exist in the physical holdings of communities across the state. The Portal seeks to digitize originals, preserving and presenting online copies for the long-term. Doing so highlights hidden collections, builds statewide connections, and provides access to you, regardless of the time or your location.

Texas History for Teachers

Texas History for Teachers provides Texas social studies teachers access to evidence-based historical content and resources for teaching Texas history, with all content mapped to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards.

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Texas Digital Newspaper Program

Learners of all ages can use TDNP to stand in the shoes of people from over 180 years ago to the present. Through our newspaper collection, we provide an understanding of the lives of Texans across history and miles.

"The newspaper digitization project places our library in position to reach out toward the future. By taking a piece of the past and bringing it with us, we are sure to grow and learn, appreciate and respect what was, what is and what will be."

Leslie Whitaker, Claude Public Library
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Rescuing Texas History

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. Thanks to the Portal, they can now be viewed by the world."

Brad Willis — T. B. Willis Photograph Collection
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Help Us Save Texas History!

Last month, we counted 1,315,649 uses of items on the Portal by people all over the world. Many were provided by small communities and funded by the generosity of donors like you.

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Information for libraries, museums, schools, historical societies, civic groups, and individuals interested in the digital preservation and sharing of cultural heritage materials on this site.

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