Your Connection to East Texas History

The Texas New Deal Symposium & The East Texas Historical Association invite proposals for papers to be presented at the 10th Annual Texas New Deal Symposium hosted by Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View on June 20, 2026.

If there is one event in history at which you could be present, what would it be? Why?

The Gettysburg Address. An important inflection point in the Civil War, memorialized by one of our very greatest presidents. I would like to absorb how the event was perceived by those in attendance and by the nation and the world in the ensuing days.

Old Fashioned Christmas: Part 2 (December 6, 2025)

Check out Dr. Scott Sosebee’s weekly ”All Things Historical” column, published in The Daily Sentinel, where he brings his deep knowledge of East Texas’s past to insightful reflections on the region. Each week, he shares the histories that help define East Texas today.

Learn more about ETHA, the organization and the people who make it special.

When you join ETHA you become part of an effort to document the many histories of East Texas.

Conferences, special events, and lectures by major speakers educate and connect us with each other.

The East Texas Historical Journal delivers historical research, member books help interpret it.

Do more by becoming a life member, a donor, or by sponsoring an issue of the Journal or a page on the website.

ETHA recognizes excellence in scholarship and education with several awards.