General

Texas Legislature Online - This is the place to go for current legislative activity.

Texas Online - This is the official state web site. Anything and everything about the state of Texas!

Texas Parks and Wildlife - A guide to the great outdoors in Texas.

History

Texas Forts Tour - history of the forts in Texas with maps.

Texas Historical Commission - is the state agency in charge of historic preservation. This web site includes the Texas Historic Sites Atlas.

TexasHistory.Com - Texas history from an award winning video production company. Their featured exhibits are changed frequently.

Texas Tides - collaborative digital project creates a platform in which cultural heritage institutions and educators can work together to enrich learning experiences for students, bridge gaps between disciplines, and increase access to unique cultural collections. The gathering of all forms of cultural history around a topic offers a more complete story of the past than any one piece could do alone. The result is a unique tool for educators to teach early Texas history and information literacy. The Texas Tides project addresses the needs of educators, researchers, and students for readily accessible primary and secondary cultural resource materials. The Tides web site documents early Texas history (prehistory until A.D. 1900) with an east Texas slant. In addition, The Texas Tides project meets the needs of Texas history teachers for curriculum material that will not only meet the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) guidelines, but also help prepare their students for the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Test (TAKS).

Texas Trails - Excellent basic information about the "Lone Star State."

Exhibits

UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures - a fascinating web site that includes oral histories, facts and the stories of the many different people and cultures of the state.

Portraits of Texas Governors - from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Historic Sites - A virtual tour of important archeological and historic sites around the state.

Texas Treasures - from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. This is an online exhibit of Texas historical documents and artifacts.

UT Austin Center for American History - online exhibits from their huge collection.

Sources

Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Texas from Independence to Annexation - texts of Texas documents from 1836-1846.

Documents of Early Texas - several important Texas historical documents from Lone Star Junction.

Links

Texas State Historical Association Texas History Links - excellent historical links page!

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: About Texas - Texas facts, history, counties, and much more!