Links to Some
Texas History Primary Source Documents
on the Internet
Compiled by
Roger A. Griffin, Ph.D
Professor of History Emeritus
Austin Community College
Austin, Texas
Table of Contents
1. Texas in the Spanish Era (Sixteenth Century to August 24, 1821)
2. Texas in the Nineteenth Century (General)
3. Texas during the Mexican Era: Part A (August 25, 1821-December 31, 1829)
4. Texas during the Mexican Era: Part B (1830-August 1835)
5. Texas Revolution: Part A (September-October 1835)
6. Texas Revolution: Part B (November-December 1835)
7. Texas Revolution: Part C (January-March 7, 1836)
8. Texas Revolution: Part D (March 8-May 1836)
9. Republic of Texas: Part A (June 1836-1839)
10. Republic of Texas: Part B (1840-1843)
11. Republic of Texas: Part C (1844-1845)
12. Early Texas Statehood (1846-1860)
14. Texas in the Secession Crisis and the Civil War: Part B (1860-June 30, 1862)
15. Texas in the Secession Crisis and the Civil War: Part C (July 1, 1862-August 31, 1863)
16. Texas in the Secession Crisis and the Civil War: Part D (September 1-November 31, 1863)
17. Texas in the Secession Crisis and the Civil War: Part E (December 1, 1863-April 30, 1865)
18. Texas in the Latter Nineteenth Century: Part A (1865-1876)
19. Texas in the Latter Nineteenth Century: Part B (1877-1900)
20. Texas in the Twentieth Century: Part A (1901-1930)
21. Texas in the Twentieth Century: Part B (1931-1950)
22. Texas in the Twentieth Century: Part C (1951-2000)
23. Texas in the Twenty-first Century
Note: The quality of the editing, transcription, formatting, and scanning varies from collection to collection and sometimes from document to document within a collection. Also, some of the documents are excerpts.
Request: If you know of any other Texas history primary source documents available on the Internet, or if you find that any of the links do not work, please send an e-mail message to Roger Griffin.
Acknowledgement of Sources
The documents to which there are links at this site come from several online collections of documents, books, etc. I invite users of this site to peruse the collections. One will doubtless find interesting and useful documents there to which I have not provided links. Students of Texas history will, I am sure, join me in appreciating the commitment of time and of intellectual and financial resources which went into the development of those collections.
"Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas"
The great majority of documents which have to do with Texas before statehood come from an excellent, very extensive site titled "Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas," developed by Dr. Wallace L. McKeehan, Associate Director of the Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Director of the Center for Cancer Biology & Nutrition, and Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Texas A&M University. The site also has extensive narrative material by Professor McKeehan, a descendant of De Witt Colony settlers. Although the project focuses to some extent on people, places, and events associated directly with the DeWitt Colony, the narrative and especially the documents provide a comprehensive examination of the development of Anglo-American Texas between about 1821 and 1845. One can recognize documents from that site by this URL in the location bar: www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/.
For an introduction to the DeWitt Colony site, follow this link.
For a guide to the contents of the DeWitt Colony site, follow this link.
Other Sources for Documents
University of North Texas Libraries' Gammel's Laws of Texas site
University of North Texas Libraries' "Government Information Connection" site
Alamo de Parras (developed by Randell Tarin) Yale University Law School's Avalon project
The University of Texas at Austin Tarlton Law Library's Texas Constitutions Digitation Project
The University of Texas at Austin's Center for American History
Texas State University-San Marcos' Southwestern Writers Collection, Alkek Library
The University of North Carolina's Documenting the American South
Southern Methodist University's Clements Center for Southwest Studies
The University of California at Los Angeles' CLNet site
The University of Houston History Department's Texas Slavery Project
The Texas State Historical Association's "A Shared Past: Texas and the United States Since Reconstruction"
Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day's American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement
The "Making of America Project" (part of which is located at a University of Michigan site and part at a site at Cornell University), The National Archives and Records Administration's Digital ClassroomThe University of California, Santa Barbara's The American Presidency Project
Texas State Library and Archives Commission site
The Texas Secretary of State's site
The Institute of Texan Culture's Texas Memories oral history project
The Texas Navy Association's
Armadillo: The HISD WWW Server (a service of he Houston Independent School District and Rice University
The Daughters of the Republic of Texas' Alamo site
The TxGenWeb Project
PBS's The West site
The Library of Congress' American Memory project
Dallas Historical Society site
The Denton County History Page
The Seguin Family Historical Society site
Lone Star Junction's "Southwestern Classics Online" and "Documents of Early Texas" sites
Galveston County Daily News' "The 1900 Storm, Galveston Island, Texas: Remembering the Great Hurricane, September 8, 1900"
The University of Denver College of Law's "Sweatt v. Painter: Archival and Textual Sources"
Adena's "History in the United States" site
James Epperson's "Jim's Civil War Pages"
"Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War"
"Company H, 4th Texas Voluntary Infantry" site
"The U.S.-Mexican War" site (developed by the Descendants of Mexican War Veterans)
"History Central: History's Home on the Internet"
"Digital History" site (University of Houston and other entities)
The Abraham Lincoln Association's Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln site
The Department of History of Ohio State University's "eHistory.com" site
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Citation of Documents
Please cite the online collection (not this site) to which a document belongs and, if possible, the book, newspaper, manuscript collection, etc., in which it originally appeared. For a guide to the proper format to use in citing resources found on the Internet, select this link.
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Last updated, February 2005
