Forthcoming Events:

TCU Extended Education Classes

The Center is sponsoring two Extended Education classes for the 2008 Spring Semester. "Election Politics: Extra Spicy, Texas Style" will reveal the complexities of politics in the Lone Star State. "From Turnpikes to Tollways" will focus on transportation issues in the Metroplex. Click for more information.

Center Sponsors "Texas Maps Exhibition, 2007-2009"

Following up its success with the Texas Flags Exhibit, the Center for Texas Studies at TCU is partnering with the Museum of the Big Bend at Sul Ross State University to produce a traveling exhibit of Texas maps from the Yana and Marty Davis collection at Sul Ross State University. The two-year exhibition, which will make ten stops across the state, began in November 2007 at the Hall of State in Dallas, and will conclude in January 2010 at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth. The Center has published a catalogue in conjunction with the exhibit that includes color plates and descriptions of each map, as well as essays by recognized historians and cartographers. Click for more information.

Center Secures "Texas Legation Papers"

The Center has acquired a five-year depository and display rights to the Texas Legation Papers, the official records of the Republic of Texas embassy in Washington DC from 1836 to 1845. When Texas entered the Union and closed its Legation office in 1845, the Legation Papers were catalogued and archived for shipment to Austin. The 266 documents in the collection contain personal letters, financial arrangements, proposals for Texas annexation to the U.S., descriptions of boundary issues, relations with the Indians, relations with Mexico, and the Treaty of Velasco, in which the independence of Texas was secured from Mexico. Click for more information.

Texas History Coloring Book

The Center is developing a Texas History coloring book for school children. Until it appears in print, the images can be viewed on this web site.