Bob dole and george mitchell. Let us know about the programs you are watching. Call us, email us, or send us a tweet. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. All weekend American History tv is featuring austin texas the loans star States Capital and fourthlargest city. Hosted by our Time Warner Cable partners, cspans city tours staff recently visited sites showcasing austins history. Learn more about austin all weekend here on American History tv. The Texas State Library and Archives Commission is a state agency that was founded by the state with a very simple but powerful mission, and that is to make sure that texans have the information that they need to live informed, productive, and fulfilled lives, and we also provide and house the archives of the state of texas, which is the historical record of the state of texas going back to the republic of texas state and even earlier than that. What you will see today is a collection of some of the most iconic
Documents from our collection of the document, the Texas Freedom and the struggle of various groups in texas for freedom equality, and civil rights. Today were in the loren saah day zavala state archives building in austin texas right on the capitol grounds. This is an original portrait of stephen f. Austin, the father of anglo colonization in texas. We believe this portrait was painted from life before his death in 1836. 6 this is an important map that was researched and compiled stephen f. Austin. If he and his father knew texas would be successful, they would have to have a good map of the area. So he worked with the tanner publication or the Publishing Company in philadelphia to create this map. The earliest one was in 1830s. And they issued several editions. The last one being 1836. The 1836 map. Youll notice that it still has the mexican eagle in the cartoush here. At this time in 1836, this time in the publication, it was still part of mexico. This book is a publication of the p
It is one of the iconic Texas History artifacts that all of our School Children who come to the capital to learn about Texas History and learn about how to be a good citizen, they have an opportunity to see these kinds of artifacts up close and personal. The capital welcomes more than a million visitors a year and we are thankful to show them the capital itself and furnishings but we have a number of monuments on the grounds to various causes. On the south grounds we have four of the most historic monuments, Texas Rangers alamo, Confederate Monument and volunteer fireman monument. In the early 1990s the capitol under went a massive restoration exterior and interior. During the interior restoration we were able to return ten spaces to their turn of the century appearance. One of the spaces is the Supreme Court room. When myers completed the capitol in 1888 we were able to house all of State Government within these walls. State government has grown since then and at this point the Suprem
Forty years ago, Francis Ford Coppola’s Bratpacker bromide The Outsiders (based on the 1967 S.E. Hinton novel of the same name) made big stars out of Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Ralph Macchio, and C. Thomas Howell in reverse order, “Ponyboy” Curtis, Karate Kid, a Breakfast