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Title: Report
Identifier: foth_0181_multipage
Creator: Mier y Teran, Manuel de
Dates: 1828
Description: "Noticias de las tribus de salvages conocidos que habitan en el Departamento de Tejas..." Mier y Terán prepared this report as part of Mexico's effort to establish an official boundary between the United States and Mexico. The report documents the Indian tribes who were known to inhabit Texas, with the number of families that composed each tribe, the area in which they lived, and the fields in which they camped.

Title: Resolution stating support for Mexican government by the District of Mina
Identifier: foth_0610_multipage
Dates: 1827-01-04
Description: Residents of the District of Mina in Austin's Colony resolve to support the government of Mexico and speak against the rebellion at Nacogdoches.

Title: Resolutions of Loyalty
Identifier: foth_0219_multipage
Creator: Battle, William M
Dates: 1827-01-06
Description: William M. Battle, alcalde for the district of San Felipe, issued a statement declaring the inhabitants of San Felipe to be "satisfied with the government of their adoption" and denouncing the insurgents at Nacogdoches.

Title: Sam Houston's inaugural address
Identifier: foth_0460_multipage
Creator: Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.
Dates: 1836-10-22
Description: Houston prepared this draft for his inauguration as first president of the Republic of Texas after the first national election in the fall of 1836.

Title: Signature page of the Secret Treaty of Velasco
Identifier: foth_0395_multipage
Dates: 1836-05-14
Description: Texas President David G. Burnet and General Antonio López de Santa Anna signed two treaties on May 14, 1836, following the Mexican army's defeat at San Jacinto. The "secret" version promised Santa Anna's immediate freedom with certain qualifications. Neither Texas nor Mexico honored the treaties.

Title: Soberano Congreso General de la Federacion Mexica [Memorial to the Congress of the United Mexican States]
Identifier: foth_0236
Dates: 1833-04-13
Description: Spanish version of the Memorial to the Congress of the United Mexican States, signed by David G. Burnet (president of the committee formed to write a memorial), Thomas Hastings, and William H. Wharton, president of the Convention of 1833.

Title: Sobre el Establecimiento colonial. . .
Identifier: foth_0005_multipage
Creator: Government of Mexico
Dates: 1823-03-20
Description: With the signing of this document on March 20, 1823, the government of Mexico granted Stephen F. Austin the right to settle three hundred American families in Texas. Such permission followed Mexico's passage of a general colonization law on January 4, 1823, which offered heads of families a league and a labor of land (4,605 acres) and provided for agents, called empresarios, to promote immigration.

Title: Spire Hagerty's Description of Stolen Slaves
Identifier: foth_0545_multipage
Creator: Hagerty, Spire
Dates: 1838-10
Description: Hagerty's description of his stolen slaves. "The above negros were stolen from my plantation by a creek Indian ... Jack, Jeffrey, Lucy, Sambo, and Carolina." Rebecca McIntosh Hagerty married Spire Hagerty, owner of a plantation near Marshall, Texas. After Spire's death, Mrs. Hagerty continued to acquire control of slaves and land and became one of the richest planters in antebellum Texas.

Title: Suggestions on News Releases Relating to Testing for Selective Admissions
Identifier: e_uta_00062
Topic: College integration, Civil rights
Dates: 1955-07-15
Resource: UT Chancellor's Office records
Description: Suggestions on News Releases Relating to Testing for Selective Admissions.

Title: Summarized list of ¥Iran-Contra Hearing Results from Phase I,¥ undated
Identifier: camh-dob-014473
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Iran-Contra Affair (1985-1990), Governmental Investigations
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A document recording summaries of the first phase of Iran-Contra hearings. The list notes that sensitive materials were shared with private citizen motivated by personal profit and details profiteering, security breaching, selling the White House, presidential untruthfulness, tin cup diplomacy, cover-up, and diversion.

Title: Telephone message note on WGMS interview, July 23, 1987
Identifier: camh-dob-014560
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Iran-Contra Affair (1985-1990), Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1987-07-23
1987-07-23
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A document inviting Congressman Jack Brooks to do an interview with John Angelus of WGMS Radio.

Title: Terms of Settlement
Identifier: foth_0023_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1823-10-20
Description: Austin's letter setting out the terms by which settlers would be admitted to the colony. Among the qualifications, colonists were required to have "the most unequivocal and satisfactory evidence of unblemished character, good morals, sobriety, and industrious habits."

Title: To the People of Pecan Point, Nacogdoches
Identifier: foth_0206_multipage
Creator: Edwards, Benjamin W., Mayo, Harman B.
Dates: 1826-12-25
Description: B.W. Edwards and H.B. Mayo write to the inhabitants of Pecan Point and declare their colony's independence from Mexico.

Title: Translation of the laws, orders, and contracts on colonization from January 21, 1821, up to this time
Identifier: foth_0198_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1829-11
Description: Austin's contemporary account of the establishment of the first Anglo-American settlement of Texas, with his English translations of the documents and laws relating to the founding of the colony, is the first book of more than twelve pages printed in Texas.

Title: Ytinerario de las jornadas que ha hecho el espresado cuerpo desde la cuidad de San Luís Potosí el día 17 de Nobiembre de 1835
Identifier: foth_0348_multipage
Dates: 1836
Description: The daily itinerary for the Texas campaign of the Battalion of San Luís Potosí contains rich detail about the battalion's march to Béxar and the attack on the Alamo. The entry for March 27-28, 1836, reports the execution of James W. Fannin and his men at Coleto.