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San Antonio Missions

Suggested Library Databases

The databases listed below are good places to start to find secondary source information on topics related to Texas History.

Books on the Missions

Search A&M-SA's Library Catalog

Additional Secondary Sources

The New Handbook of Texas is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 25,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories. The scope is broad and inclusive, designed to provide readers with concise, authoritative, and accessible articles that provide factual, nonpartisan accounts on virtually every aspect of Texas history and culture.

In addition to the site's current information pertaining to Texas, this archive contains all the Texas Almanacs from 1857 to 2005.

The Texas State Historical Association allows access to the first 100 volumes of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly online. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly the oldest continuously published (since 1897) scholarly journal in Texas. This journal is the major peer-reviewed journal about Texas history.