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THE HISTORY OF TE X A S

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Chapter 5

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The National Archives: Teaching with Documents ~ Teaching With Documents: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, lesson plans, worksheets (cartoon analysis, poster/photo analysis, map and artifact analysis)
Mexican Texans in the Civil War ~ excellent overview in The Handbook of Texas.
Texas in the Civil War ~ excellent overview in search The Handbook of Texas.
Texas State Library and Archives Commision, Declaration of Causes: February 2, 1861 ~ A declaration of the causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union.
Texas in the Secession Crisis at Links to Some Texas History Primary Source Documents On the Internet compiled by Roger A. Griffin, Ph.D, Professor of History Emeritus, Austin, Texas. Offers links to correspondence sent by or received by various individuals who played a major role in the secessionist crisis in Texas.
Slave Narratives of Texas Although prefaced by Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the alphabetized menu on the left hand side of the screen (scroll) includes all of the known slave narratives of Texas slaves.
Louise Wigfall Wright, A Southern Girl in '61: The War-Time Memories of a Confederate Senator's Daughter (1905), was the daughter of Louis T. Wigfall of Marshall, Texas. Her memoirs tell of her childhood in Marshall, Texas and of events through the end of the Civil War.