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The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is an American nonprofit educational and research organization dedicated to documenting the history of Texas. It was founded in Austin, Texas, United States, on March 2, 1897. In November 2008, the TSHA moved its offices from Austin to the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.
7 Up Bottling Company building in Portland, Oregon (1976) 7 Up was created by Charles Leiper Grigg, who launched his St. Louis–based company The Howdy Corporation in 1920. [2] Grigg came up with the formula for a lemon-lime soft drink in 1929, and the product was launched two weeks before the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
The City in Texas: A History (University of Texas Press, 2015) 342 pp. Mendoza, Alexander, and Charles David Grear, eds. Texans and War: New Interpretations of the State's Military History 2012 excerpt; Scott, Robert (2000). After the Alamo. Plano, TX: Republic of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-585-22788-7.
While the Texas Bicentennial is not until 2036, there are plenty of historical dates to commemorate in 2024. Texas milestones in 2024: What happened in Texas 100 years ago? Or 500 years ago?
"So if Texas were to secede, there are a number of problems. A lot of the companies that have been brought in would now be seen as foreign companies. And so they may leave because of that.
A citizen committee in Texas made the decision last month to re-classify the children's book, "Colonization and the Wampanoag Story" as fiction. Texas county criticized after Indigenous history ...
The history of Texas, particularly of the old independent Republic of Texas, is intimately bound up with its present culture. Frontier Texas! is a museum of the American Old West in Abilene. Texas is also home to many historical societies, such as: The Texas Historical Commission, an agency dedicated to historic preservation within the state of ...
The East Texas Big Thicket Association was formed in the 1920s to preserve what little remained of the Big Thicket. Though its impact was limited it demonstrated increasing concern about the woodlands. [31] In 1924 the state forester E. O. Siecke succeeded in establishing the first state forest in Texas (named E. O. Siecke State Forest in 1951