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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Hey there. Hope you’re doing well. Here’s a new essay for your edification. I hope it brings you joy. open.substack.com/pub/texashis...

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This I Believe

What Made Dobie Feel Big

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

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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Peter Josyph @peterjosyph.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

LOLITA’S PARIS APARTMENT WHERE SHE LIVES ALONE AND READS COLETTE, BALZAC, AND E.M. FORSTER (Acrylic and Ink on Handmade Paper)

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

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Historical Marker Database @hmdb.org · 29/03/2025

#OtD in 1839, the Cordova Rebellion ended in the War for Texas Independence. www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=128126 #TexasHistory #HistoricalMarker @texashistoryl.bsky.social

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Battleground Prairie Historical Marker

(A historical marker located in Seguin in Guadalupe County, Texas.)

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Truth can’t be institutionalized. It can be learned and it can spread, but there is no curriculum for intellectual honesty. — J. Frank Dobie

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Nothing 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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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The evil that men do lives after them. — Shakespeare

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

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. #ReadMoreWomen #LiteraryWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

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.

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Sara Cress @saracress.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

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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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

A good hiking tip!

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

“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

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

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

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This episode and the others on the Texas Revolution are a success and a failure. Secret: There are parts that I am very pleased with but there’s a lot missing. The goal is to fill in the missing parts in the future. open.spotify.com/episode/4XD3...

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Victory and Death: The Battle of San Jacinto

Texas History Stories · Episode

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

ₜᵣᵤₘₚ becomes president again in thirty days. And as if that isn't bad enough, the Texas Legislature convenes in twenty-four.

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

One of the strangest things I’ve done this year: A listener offered to book and pay for me to stay the night at Goliad and I politely declined.

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I just wrote one of the best passages I’ve ever written. No. It’s probably the best. What’s nice is that I already see how to make it better.

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Ben Johnson @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Latest blog dropped @refusing2forget.bsky.social. Lobe how @tbowmanhist.bsky.social channels the voices of his students. Our scholarship has made a difference!

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Monica D. Styles @monicadstyles.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The 1522 Christmas Day rebellion on Diego Columbus’s sugar plantation is another example. It is the first large-scale revolt of enslaved people. Festive! #merrychristmas #tistheseasonforrebellion

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The Wild West Extravaganza podcast is amazing and this episode deserves an award. open.spotify.com/episode/6l6U...

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The Escape of Chief Satanta

The Wild West Extravaganza · Episode

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I just discovered a novel written in the 1870s about the Republican Army of the North’s Texas campaign—or the Gutierrez Magee filibuster. This is what makes me excited.

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I am loving this new novel by Derrick G. Jeter. I hope to finish it this weekend.

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I said 3 or 4. Then I decided to make a list. And…I was way off.

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I have at least 3 or 4 projects that I’ve been working on for about a year or more and, of course, I just started a new one: The Raven in the Lion’s Den - Houston and His Enemies.

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TexasHistoryLessons-Michael Sparkman @texashistoryl.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Robert Julian Onderonk, Bluebonnet Scene 2, Date Unknown

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Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This is what I've grown to appreciate about Pacific History, there's a good amount of ed. volumes about the methods and historians. Be good to see more ed. collections about women... #History

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 06/12/2024

The AHR’s December 2024 issue is now available. This issue inaugurates the annual publication of a special issue of the journal. Inside the issue authors explore how historical context and contingency shape and inflect resilience. 🗃️

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Volume 129 Issue 4 | The American Historical Review | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the American Historical Association. Publishes research that brings together scholarship from every major field of historical study. Articles include original interpretation an...

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John Willingham @jwillinghamtx.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

"E.L. Doctorow talked about the way he writes, and it’s like you have a car on the road, and the headlights illuminate three feet of what’s ahead of the car. He writes what’s in those headlights, and he keeps going as he drives." --Raven Leilani

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