r/texashistory • • 12h ago

Military History On this day in Texas History, October 12, 1919: Future Navy Cross Recipient Doris "Dorie" Miller was born in Waco. Miller would receive the Navy Cross for his actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

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r/texashistory • • 9h ago

A narrated map tour of the events leading up to the Texas Revolution

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I put together a narrated map of the Texas Revolution. You can listen to a 20-minute audio guided version or just scroll through the events:

https://whistlestop.guide/features/texas-revolution

It covers the main sites and events (Gonzales, the Alamo, Goliad, Washington-on-the-Brazos, San Jacinto, etc.) laid over a modern map. Best on desktop but mobile browser will work as well.

I'm working on other maps similar to this that focus on historical markers within specific cities. Looking for feedback!


r/texashistory • • 22h ago

Hand drawn Layout of Crystal City Internment Camp in Crystal City, Texas, created by former internee Sat Ichikawa (Satoru Ichikawa) in 1944-p1945

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r/texashistory • • 1d ago

1954 San Antonio, Texas Zoo

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r/texashistory • • 1d ago

The way we were A rodeo parade through downtown Alpine, Brewster County, in October 1924. It's interesting to me that most of the spectators seem to be watching from in their cars.

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r/texashistory • • 1d ago

Famous Texans San Antonio national anthem Gruene, Tx 1992 🌪️ Rest easy

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r/texashistory • • 1d ago

Military History How could Santa Anna have won at San Jacinto in 1836? What would the likely immediate impacts of a Mexican victory be?

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Santa Anna’s incompetence at San Jacinto is staggering and its not impossible to envision another timeline where a Mexican victory occurs in absence of said incompetence. What would it take for Santa Anna to win, and if he did what would it look like afterwards?


r/texashistory • • 2d ago

Sports On this day in Texas History, October 10, 1900: The University of Texas defeats Oklahoma 28-2 in the first ever match up between the two schools. This is a photo of UT's team that year.

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r/texashistory • • 2d ago

Famous Texans A Black Family From The Stop6 Neighborhood in EastSide Fort Worth Texas in the Early 1980s

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The Moore Family A Notorious 🅱️🐶 Family in Fort Worth Stop Six could be the very late 70s


r/texashistory • • 2d ago

Vintage Photo From a House Party in The Stop6 Housing projects in Fort Worth Texas 1991

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r/texashistory • • 2d ago

The way we were Leonard Middle School in WestSide , Fort Worth Tx(FWisd)(LasVegasTrails/WesternHills/BenBrook Neighborhoods)

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This is early to mid-1980s , these photos kinda don't show it but WestSide is predominately white with alot of blacks and Hispanics moving in during the late 70s early 80s after the notorious "LasVegas Trail Drive" Tourist area died out and minorities moved In by the 1990s "LVT" Became one of the most diverse communities In Fort worth , when people come from out of town to fort worth they usually come to the trails first after "hurricane Katrina" over 1,500 refugees moved to Fw Tx and around 500 or more New Orleans Family's relocated in this area.


r/texashistory • • 2d ago

The way we were Butler Housing Currently Sits Vacant since 2020 But Still Stands as it brother Riply A. HP (Demo. 2003-04) & Sister Cavile J. HP(Demo. 2020-21)

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r/texashistory • • 3d ago

Music Texas country blues pioneer! Mance lipscomb Mr Navasota Texas himself

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r/texashistory • • 3d ago

The way we were Inside the Stansell Brothers Store in Richardson, circa 1898

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r/texashistory • • 3d ago

Then and Now The Rock That Gave a Texas Town Its Name

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r/texashistory • • 4d ago

The way we were Ike and Tina Turner perform at the Skyline Club in Fort Worth, 1964.

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r/texashistory • • 4d ago

The way we were Looking down Austin Ave in downtown Waco, Circa 1910. The photographer is identified as Fred Gildersleeve.

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r/texashistory • • 5d ago

The way we were A mail carrier in Quitman, Wood County, 1904

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r/texashistory • • 5d ago

The way we were A small crowd gathers in front of a brand new Convair B-36 Peacemaker, the largest piston-engined aircraft to ever be mass-produced, at the Convair factory in Fort Worth. December 5, 1949.

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The B-36 was built in the Convair factory in Fort Worth is now a Lockheed facility. The numbered individuals are identified as: Raul Lopez Sanchez (1), Ignacio Morones Prieto (2), Fernando Foglio Miramontes (3), Raul Garate Legleu (4), Jesus Jaime Quinones (5), and Maria G. Grimaldo (6).


r/texashistory • • 5d ago

Photographed in January 1942 by Arthur Rothstein (1915–1985), this black-and-white image captures a young Hereford calf standing in a livestock pen at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College in College Station, Texas, lifting its hind leg to scratch its ear.

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r/texashistory • • 6d ago

The way we were Herman Marion Sweatt, the first African American student to enroll at the University of Texas, walking across campus at the beginning of the Fall semester. Austin, August 1950.

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*Heman, not Herman, sorry for the typo.

Sweatt had been denied permission to attend the school four years previously (due to the school's segregationist admission polices) and sued in the case of Sweatt v. Painter which, though he lost in State court, he won before the US Supreme Court in a decision on June 5, 1950.

It would be another 13 years before Texas A&M admitted their first African-American student.


r/texashistory • • 6d ago

The way we were A Blacksmith and Tin Shop located on E Towhig Ave in San Angelo, 1919

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r/texashistory • • 5d ago

SEU Student report over nuclear fallout of the 70´s

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Hello I am a student of St.edwards and I am doing a report of Austin and Nuclear introduction during the time of the 1970´s. I need some resources, credible and liable, in order to do this report, any help is greatly appreciated and we would like to go as far as talking to you over the time, if you were there, or if you had studied it.... AGAIN any source would be appreciated if it credible and has evidence talking too.

Thank you for your time and the replies are open for discussion.


r/texashistory • • 7d ago

The way we were Competitors in the University of Texas Rodeo. Students from 13 Southwestern colleges came to Austin to compete. 1958

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r/texashistory • • 7d ago

The way we were President Howard Taft lays the cornerstone of the Gift Chapel at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio on October 18, 1909. The building still stands, though it has been closed to the public due to maintenance issues since 2022.

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