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Oral History Archive - Project Resources: Life in Texas

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

Dobie, Bertha McKee. Growing Up in Texas: Recollections of Childhood. Austin, Encino Press, 1972. Check availability in PAC Ozuna Library, F391 .G86.

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

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.

Texas Oral History Collections