Beyond the Bytes, June 30, 2025

June 25, 2025   View this email in your browser Join Us! Apply for a Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant It's that time of year again! Please consider applying for a Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant, we'd love to hear about the materials you or your organization would like to add to the Portal to Texas History. We are looking for materials that will help researchers explore a variety of facets of Texas history; whether they expand on the understanding of the larger, more well known, Texas History, or help to explore lesser-known histories of this great place we call Texas. Applications are due on August 7, 2025 . . . Learn more Please join Us for a free Newspaper Digitization Webinar  On July 16, from 12:00-1:30, join Ana Krahmer as she presents a virtual workshop about Portal to Texas History newspaper projects from start to finish. During this workshop, Krahmer will discuss: Initiating a newspaper digitization project Identifying funding opportunities for your community newspapers Working with your newspaper materials Promoting your collection Using newspapers in research Free registration: https://unt.zoom.us/meeting/register/Y-Zq5REbRPKwLhfn1VI0xw From our blog:The Dallas Museum of Art Exhibition Photos The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) Exhibition Records Collection includes photographs and documentation from various exhibitions that have taken place in the Dallas Museum of Art dating back to the early 1900s to . . . [more] Plano Public Library The Plano Public Library partnered with us to provide access to The Plano Star-Courier and Plano Daily Star-Courier. Plano Public Library has served the City of Plano since 1965. Plano Public Library serves a vibrant, diverse community just north of Dallas. Library staff engage our community with an array of virtual and in-person learning opportunities for all ages, access to technology, and a robust collection of print and digital resources at five library locations. ... [more] UNT Library wins grant to make Texas history lessons more accessible with ASL and Braille From the Denton Record-Chronicle The Texas State Library and Archives Commission has given the University of North Texas Library a grant that will make Texas-centered material available to more people. UNT earned $70,266 for a competitive "Special 75" grant given for the 2025-26 year. ... [follow to article] What is Juneteenth, And Why do We Celebrate? From BK Reader Juneteenth has come to symbolize for many African Americans what the 4th of July symbolizes for the rest of America: freedom. Juneteenth celebrates the freedom of more than 250,000 slaves at the close of the Civil War. The celebration is based on events that occurred mainly in Texas and it became a federal holiday in 2021.  ... [follow to article] The mystery of Boerne's ancient Bible: Who brought it there? From Texas Public Radio It's truly a riddle wrapped in an enigma. A small-town Texas librarian finds a musty old Bible and soon realizes it's unlike any she's ever seen. It's hundreds of years old and written in a familiar, but dead, language. Texas Public Radio looked into it and uncovered ... well, most of its mystery.  "It was a 1614 Low German Bible. It was rare, and we had only one of seven copies in the world," McCune said. ... [follow to article] The Texas History for Teachers (TX4T) project provides Texas social studies teachers and students access to authoritative, evidence-based historical content and best-practices resources for teaching and learning Texas history. By the end of the 2025-26 school year, TX4T will complete production of a full, free Texas history curriculum for 7th grade that combines the very best of historical knowledge, educational pedagogy, and accessibility with all of our content mapped directly to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards set by the Texas Education Agency. New Unit: the Republic of Texas When Texas emerged as an independent republic (1836-1845), the new nation faced tremendous challenges: the nation was deeply in debt and Mexico, who refused to recognize Texas independence and threatened to reconquer the region. The United States had also refused Texas's request to be annexed to the United States. Texans thus began forging their own nation, built on the Texas-grown cotton that made up more than 90 percent of the Republic's exports ... (go to TX4T) On this day in 1934, the firm of David S. Castle & Co. created this Elevation plan for the new Iraan High School. The Portal has thousands of blueprints and technical drawings online.        SUPPORT US! Please make a monetary donation to support the students and community members using the Portal to Texas History for research and learning.    Donate Now FOLLOW US! Facebook Libraries Website        Our mailing address is: 1155 Union Circle #305190  Denton, TX 76203-5017 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.