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5 days ago · Sam Houston remains a larger-than-life figure in Texas and American history with a career that spanned the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas, annexation and early statehood, and the state's secession from the Union in 1861.
- 8 double-sided panels
- 18 linear feet of floor space
- English
1 day ago · Castañeda's masterpiece was the seven-volume Our Catholic Heritage in Texas, written under the auspices of the Texas Knights of Columbus. It documented the Hispanic history of Texas at a time when many marginalized the state's Mexican American population. Castañeda did not just write about the past.
5 days ago · In October 2018, Humanities Texas held two one-day teacher workshops in Harlingen and Corpus Christi focusing on teaching the American Revolution. Curriculum. Topics addressed included the colonies' growing separation from Britain, the Declaration of Independence, turning points of the Revolutionary War, and women in the Revolution.
1 day ago · After repeated vetoes of such laws, the 1917 Immigration Act, sponsored by Congressman John Lawson Burnett, finally succeeded in imposing a literacy test on immigrants to the U.S. It required immigrants over the age of 16 to be able to read 30-40 words in any language.
14 hours ago · October 1917 - October 1920. Long Live the Worldwide Red October! Moissaye J. Olgin spent much of 1921 in Soviet Russia and provides this sober summary of that momentous year which saw the Kronstadt Rising, the debate on trade unions, costly victory in the Civil War, famine, and the New Economic Policy.
5 days ago · Duma, Russian in full Gosudarstvennaya Duma (“State Assembly”), elected legislative body that, along with the State Council, constituted the imperial Russian legislature from 1906 until its dissolution at the time of the March 1917 Revolution.
3 days ago · Rally House has opened its 26th store in Texas at Tanger Outlets Fort Worth next to Under Armour. The details. The company's website states Rally House is a specialty sports store that sells ...
