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Oral History Archive - Project Resources: Life in San Antonio

First Hand Accounts

Goyne, Minetta Altgelt. Lone Star and Double Eagle : Civil War Letters of a German-Texas Family. Fort Worth, Tex., Texas Christian University Press, 1982. Available online.

Cover Art image Matovina, Timothy. The Alamo Remembered : Tejano Accounts and Perspectives. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1995. Check availability in PAC Ozuna Library, F390 .M485 1995

Front cover image for The World War I diary of José de la Luz Sáenz Sáenz José de la Luz. The World War I Diary of José De La Luz Sáenz. Texas A & M University Press, 2014. Check availability at PAC Ozuna Library D570.3 90th .S2413 2014

Front cover image for Crossing Guadalupe Street : growing up Hispanic and Protestant

Moldonado, David. Crossing Guadalupe Street: Growing Up Hispanic and Protestant by David Moldonado. Check availability in PAC Ozuna Library,
F394 .S43 M35 2001

Featured Local Resource

1939 Battle of Flowers parade on Broadway

UTSA Libraries Digital Collections

Explore San Antonio's history through the vast digitized collections at UTSA. Featured collections include San Antonio Light Photographs, Mexican Cookbook Collection, and Serie Project Print Collection. These digitized collections are just a sample of the overall holdings of the UTSA Libraries Special Collections.

San Antonio History Books

Poyo, Gerald Eugene, et al. Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1991. Check availability in PAC Ozuna Library, F394.S2 T43 1991

Front cover image for Rise of the Mexican American middle class : San Antonio, 1929-1941 Garcia, Richard A. Rise of the Mexican American Middle Class: San Antonio, 1929-1941. College Station, Texas A & M University Press, 1991. Check availability in PAC Ozuna Library, F394.S2 G37 1991

Mason, Kenneth. African Americans and Race Relations in San Antonio, Texas, 1867-1937. New York, Garland Pub, 1998. Check availability in PAC Ozuna Library, F394.S29 N46 1998

Front cover image for Quixote's soldiers : a local history of the Chicano movement, 1966-1981 Montejano, David. Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981. Austin, University of Texas Press, 2010. Check availability in PAC Ozuna Library, F394.S2119 M51736 2010