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Texas history from different perspectives. texashistorylessons.com Created by Michael Sparkman
Hey there. Hope you’re doing well. Here’s a new essay for your edification. I hope it brings you joy.
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30.06.2025 21:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Laredo by James McMurtry. Check it out.
28.06.2025 20:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, 1795-1796
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LOLITA’S PARIS APARTMENT WHERE SHE LIVES ALONE AND READS COLETTE, BALZAC, AND E.M. FORSTER
(Acrylic and Ink on Handmade Paper)
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, 1795-1796
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#OtD in 1839, the Cordova Rebellion ended in the War for Texas Independence.
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#OtD in 1840, the Battle of Plum Creek was fought in Texas.
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#OtD in 1880, a Methodist Episcopal Church was built near #DrippingSpringsTX beginning its legacy in the community.
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This was a fun one to make. open.spotify.com/episode/0lBa...
10.03.2025 18:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Truth can’t be institutionalized. It can be learned and it can spread, but there is no curriculum for intellectual honesty. — J. Frank Dobie
27.02.2025 03:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nothing is too trivial for art, but good art treats nothing in a trivial way. Nothing is too provincial for the regional writer, but he cannot be provincial-minded toward it. Luminosity is not stumbled into. - J. Frank Dobie
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New episode about Bride Neill Taylor and the TSHA is available now.
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The evil that men do lives after them. — Shakespeare
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How do I respond to this? I like to hear about what I get wrong with suggestions on how to improve—but this does nothing.
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Coming soon: Texas History Lessons + Classic Texas Books in print, e-book and audio versions (with notes, essays and very affordable prices) = Texas History Library.
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painting of Mary Shelley by Rothwell. It shows a white woman with sloping shoulders, dark hair and gold glasses
Frontispiece of Frankenstein’s first edition without any author’s name on it.
It's ALIVE!
#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' was published anonymously. Her gothic novel was also one of the first science-fiction novels.
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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
A few weeks ago I picked up this piece of Texas ephemera in an antiques mall. I finally read through it last night and, to be honest, the poetry is pretty terrible. It's all sing-song rhymes about the bravery of the men who settled Texas. BUT it did lead me down a "Houston Pen Women" rabbit hole...
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A good hiking tip!
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“It avails not, time nor place—distance avails not,
I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence,
Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,
Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd…” Walt Whitman
Derrick G. Jeter’s Blood Touching Blood is so good. The story, the quality of the writing, the descriptive scenes of the land and the interior landscape of the characters, and the historical context within the narrative are superb. Get a copy to enjoy.
Blood Touching Blood a.co/d/cHKXYqA
