{"id":70,"date":"2020-03-02T08:36:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T13:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/sycamore-stacks\/?p=70"},"modified":"2020-03-02T08:36:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T13:36:47","slug":"happy-birthday-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/sycamore-stacks\/2020\/03\/02\/happy-birthday-to-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/treasures\/republic\/declaration.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-753\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/untdocsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/declaration-banner.png\" alt=\"Texas Declaration of Independence\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<p>On a cold first day of March in 1836, even as a handful of brave Texas were desperately fending off General Santa Anna and his troops at the Alamo, a convention of delegates sent by the provisional Texas government huddled in an unfinished building in Washington (today better known as <a href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/hvw10\">Washington-on-the-Brazos<\/a>), where by March 2 they had drafted and adopted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/treasures\/republic\/declare-01.html\">Declaration of Independence<\/a> from Mexico.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>During the next couple of weeks, the delegates signed the Declaration, hurriedly cobbled together a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/lobbyexhibits\/mural-draft-constitution\">Constitution<\/a> (which incorporated large chunks of the U.S. Constitution, along with a few Mexican laws), and elected a few\u00a0<em>ad interim<\/em> government officials. Then, during the early morning of March 17, with no time to lose, they skedaddled, joining the mass exodus known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Runaway_Scrape\">Runaway Scrape<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The battle for independence continued until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/treasures\/republic\/san-jacinto.html\">April 21<\/a>, when the Mexican army was defeated and Santa Anna captured. For the next decade Texas existed as an independent republic, until on December 28, 1845 it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/ref\/abouttx\/annexation\/index.html\">admitted into the United States<\/a> as the 28<sup>th<\/sup> state of the Union.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Here are some ways you can celebrate the anniversary of Texas Independence:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Attend one of these many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/str\/texas+independence+day\/keywords_events?f=Abrjcxh6t8DurFS43PKEoJah5rj2VmkDvFcVpozJlmohIcFKtwcBTiglI0dzxJ9RIByb0p1I10A9xqIqlFSqX7fGxZGI78xQZpdhzzPzAbVL-5NDv7xrsHG77lja40gXElo&amp;epa=SEE_MORE\">Texas Independence Day events<\/a>\u00a0being celebrated throughout the state.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Read about the history of the <a href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/qdt01\">Texas Revolution<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/about-handbook\">Handbook of Texas Online<\/a> Web site.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Read the full text of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/treasures\/republic\/declare-01.html\">Texas Declaration of Independence<\/a> at the Texas State Library and Archives Web site. Or, for an extra frisson of patriotic fervor, you can see an exceedingly rare <a href=\"https:\/\/iii.library.unt.edu\/record=b1304152~S12\">1836 printing<\/a> of the Texas Constitution and Declaration of Independence in the UNT Libraries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.unt.edu\/special-collections\">Special Collections<\/a> department in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.unt.edu\/location-hours\/willis-library\">Willis Library<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Explore the <a href=\"http:\/\/texasindependencetrail.com\/\">Texas Independence Trail Region<\/a> and relive the Texas struggle for independence by visiting the very places where these historic events occurred.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/wheretexasbecametexas.org\/\">Washington-on-the-Brazos<\/a>, where you can join in a huge annual <a href=\"http:\/\/wheretexasbecametexas.org\/events\/texas-independence-day-celebration-3\/\">Independence Day party<\/a> sponsored by the place \u201cWhere Texas Became Texas.\u201d<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Come to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.unt.edu\/eagle-commons-library\">Eagle Commons Library<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/facilities.unt.edu\/sycamore-hall\">Sycamore Hall<\/a> and read these government documents on Texas Independence:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/iii.library.unt.edu\/record=b3276852~S12\"><em>Texas Independence Trail Region: Deadly Battles, Heroic Deeds and a History Shaped by a Desire for Freedom<\/em><\/a> (Texas Historical Commission)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/iii.library.unt.edu\/record=b1382264~S4\"><em>The Texas Revolution<\/em><\/a> (Texas State Library)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/iii.library.unt.edu\/record=b1371107~S4\"><em>A Select Glossary of the Texas Revolution<\/em><\/a> (Archives Division, Texas State Library)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/iii.library.unt.edu\/record=b1395766~S4\"><em>The Republic of Texas<\/em><\/a> (Texas State Library)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Article by Bobby Griffith.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Banner image of the Texas Declaration of Independence from the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/treasures\/republic\/declare-01.html\"><em>Texas State Library and Archives<\/em><\/a><em> Web site.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a cold first day of March in 1836, even as a handful of brave Texas were desperately fending off General Santa Anna and his troops at the Alamo, a convention of delegates sent by the provisional Texas government huddled in an unfinished building in Washington (today better known as Washington-on-the-Brazos), where by March 2&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/sycamore-stacks\/2020\/03\/02\/happy-birthday-to-texas\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Happy Birthday to Texas\">Read more &raquo;<\/a>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-doings","category-special-days"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/sycamore-stacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/sycamore-stacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/sycamore-stacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/sycamore-stacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/sycamore-stacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/sycamore-stacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/sycamore-stacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/sycamore-stacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/sycamore-stacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/sycamore-stacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}