The digital collections represent a portion of holdings related to academic, administrative, social, and the cultural history of Huston-Tillotson University. New materials will be added on an ongoing basis.
The Texas Freedom Colonies Project is an educational and social justice initiative dedicated to supporting the preservation of Black settlement landscapes, heritage, and grassroots preservation practices.
A database of runaway slave advertisements, articles and notices from newspapers published in Texas, as well as materials from court records, manuscript collections, and books. It documents more than 2,500 fugitive slaves from Texas. Hosted by Stephen F. Austin State University.
Interactive maps and a population database allow users to discover the growth of slave and slaveholder populations in the region. Digitized original documents from the era provide access to hundreds of letters, newspapers articles, legislative decrees, and diplomatic correspondence during the 1820s through the 1840s. Hosted by the University of Virginia.
This tool searches more than 500,000 digitized African American primary sources (letters, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, etc.) from over 1000 participating archives, libraries, and museums in the U.S.
This collection of over 8,000 items is a unique visual resource documenting the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the early 1900s. Runyon's photographs document the history and development of South Texas and the border, including the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. military presence at Ft. Brown and along the border prior to and during World War I, and the growth and development of the Rio Grande Valley.
Provides access to digitized photographs from the Robert Runyon Photograph Collection of the South Texas Border Area. This collection of over 8,000 items is a unique visual resource documenting the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the early 1900s. Donated by the Runyon family to the Center for American History in 1986, it includes glass negatives, lantern slides, nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards, representing the life's work of commercial photographer Robert Runyon (1881-1968), a longtime resident of South Texas. His photographs document the history and development of South Texas and the border, including the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. military presence at Ft. Brown and along the border prior to and during World War I, and the growth and development of the Rio Grande Valley.
Voces Oral History Center is dedicated to recording and disseminating the stories of US Latinas and Latinos and weaving the many perspectives into our historical narrative at the national, state and local levels. Starting from WWII
Collection of documentaries, teacher's guides, and unedited documentary footage that was produced by the Institute of Texan Cultures between 1991-1994.
The three documentaries included in the series are: People of the Sun: The Tiguas of Ysleta, Circle of Life: The Alabama-Coushattas, and Big City Trail: Urban Indians of Texas. People of the Sun: The Tiguas of Ysleta focuses on their struggle for federal recognition during the 1960s. Circle of Life: The Alabama-Coushattas documents the life of the Alabama and Coushatta tribes who have lived together on a reservation at the edge of the Big Thicket in East Texas since the 1850s and focuses on their present-day life, showing how they have adapted to the larger culture surrounding them while keeping basic elements of their traditional culture and modifying outside elements to meet their needs. Big City Trail: Urban Indians of Texas focuses on the 20,000 American Indians in the Dallas/Fort Worth area as they face the challenge of blending traditional values with contemporary lives.