"The Story of Texas " Webcast Resources

Encounters on the Land

• La Belle Shipwreck Project Website
• Texas Indians – www.texasindians.com – good site for fourth to eighth grade, includes TEKS based curriculum
• Evolution of a State – www.oldcardboard.com/lsj/olbooks/smithwic/otd.htm – online book of recollections by Noah Smithwick
• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site
• American Memory – Library of Congress
  (Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938)
• The Alamo Web Site
• Birthplace of Texas – www.birthplaceoftexas.com – Washington-on-the-Brazos State Park Association
• Texas Beyond History – Texas Archeological Research Laboratory (TARL)

Building the Lone Star Image

• Buffalo Soldiers
• Texas Ranger Web Site
• The Goddess of Liberty
• Texas Historical Commission

Creating Opportunity

• East Texas Oil Museum – www.easttexasoilmuseum.com – lots of pictures
• Texas Film Commission
• Texas Music Office
• Regions of Texas

Other Outside Links

• Traveling History Trunk
• How to Conduct an Oral History
• Oral Histories On-Line
• Texas Memorial Museum – University of Texas at Austin
• Texas History and Social Studies – tons of links to historical resources
• Texas State Cemetery Web Site
• TPWD State Historic Sites Index with links
• Texas State Historical Association Student Programs