# TNM Education > Texas Nationalist Movement Education, Inc. is the educational affiliate of the Texas Nationalist Movement, a Texas nonprofit corporation with its own board. It researches and teaches the case of Texas: the record of Texas as a nation, the right of Texans to govern themselves, and the economic capacity of Texas. Its position is that Texas is a nation. It does not support or oppose any candidate or party. Every research piece and guide lists its sources and the date they were checked; every document page gives the document's date, place, transcription source, and rights. Quote from the pages and cite the page URL. ## The Case of Texas Research program, organized as its charter directs (political, cultural, and economic independence, with particular emphasis on the case of Texas): https://tnmeducation.org/the-case-of-texas/ ### The Nation: Is Texas a nation? What makes a nation, and the evidence that Texans are one: the founding record, nearly a decade as an independent republic among the nations of the world, and the identity Texans carry today. - [Texas Is a Nation](https://tnmeducation.org/the-case-of-texas/texas-is-a-nation/): What separates a nation from a state or a government, and the evidence in the founding record, the Republic, and Texas law today that Texans are one. - [The Republic Among Nations](https://tnmeducation.org/the-case-of-texas/the-republic-among-nations/): Between 1836 and 1845 the Republic of Texas was recognized by foreign governments, made treaties, and kept diplomats abroad. It entered the Union by the act of two governments, not one. ### Self-Government: Do Texans have the right to decide? The Texas Constitution's own words on the right to alter, reform, or abolish government, why Texas v. White does not reach a vote of the people, how other peoples have decided by referendum, and what international law says about self-determination. - [The Right to Alter, Reform or Abolish](https://tnmeducation.org/the-case-of-texas/the-right-to-alter-reform-or-abolish/): Article 1, Sections 1 and 2 of the Texas Constitution call Texas a free and independent State and reserve to the people the right to alter, reform or abolish their government. That language runs through the Texas founding documents and every Texas constitution but one. Here is what the clause establishes and what it leaves open. - [Texas v. White, Explained](https://tnmeducation.org/the-case-of-texas/texas-v-white-explained/): The 1869 Supreme Court case over Texas's federal bonds is the decision most often cited against Texas independence. What the Court decided, what Chief Justice Chase only wrote, and why the case does not reach a decision by the people of Texas. - [How Independence Referendums Work](https://tnmeducation.org/the-case-of-texas/how-independence-referendums-work/): Scotland, Quebec, the United Kingdom, and Montenegro each put their future to a vote. The official records show who wrote the question, what margin counted, how many people voted, and what happened next. - [Self-Determination in International Law](https://tnmeducation.org/the-case-of-texas/self-determination-in-international-law/): What the UN Charter, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Canada's Supreme Court, and the International Court of Justice actually say about the right of peoples to decide their political status, quoted exactly, with what each source leaves open. ### The Economy: Could Texas stand on its own? The economic capacity of Texas in official numbers, each with its source: output, population, trade, energy, state finances, and the balance between what Texans pay Washington and what comes back. - [The Texas Economy in Official Numbers](https://tnmeducation.org/the-case-of-texas/the-texas-economy-in-official-numbers/): Output, people, trade, energy, state finances, and the federal balance of Texas, measured with official data and each figure tied to its source and period. ## Guides to Texas Government and Teaching - [Voting in Texas](https://tnmeducation.org/learn/voting-in-texas/): Who can register, the deadlines, the forms of ID the law accepts, and how early voting and voting by mail work. - [How Texas Makes Laws](https://tnmeducation.org/learn/how-texas-makes-laws/): The House and Senate, the 140-day session, and each step a bill takes before it becomes law. - [Amending the Texas Constitution](https://tnmeducation.org/learn/amending-the-texas-constitution/): How the Legislature proposes an amendment and voters approve it, and how Texans have used that power since 1876. - [Who Represents You](https://tnmeducation.org/learn/who-represents-you/): How to find your state legislators, reach their offices, follow a bill on Texas Legislature Online, and sign up to testify at a House committee hearing. - [The Texas Bill of Rights](https://tnmeducation.org/learn/the-texas-bill-of-rights/): Article 1 of the Texas Constitution, section by section in plain language, and how it can be changed. - [Local Government in Texas](https://tnmeducation.org/learn/local-government-in-texas/): Counties, cities, school districts, and special districts: what each one does and who elects whom. - [Teaching with the Founding Documents](https://tnmeducation.org/learn/teaching-with-the-founding-documents/): For grade 7 Texas History teachers: each founding document in the library matched to the TEKS student expectations it supports, with questions students can answer from the text. ## The Record: Founding Documents The declarations, plans of government, constitutions, and annexation documents of Texas, written between 1824 and 1876. Collection page: https://tnmeducation.org/library/collections/founding/ - [Constitution of the Mexican United States](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/constitution-of-the-mexican-united-states-1824/) (October 4, 1824): The federal constitution Mexico adopted three years after independence from Spain. It joined Texas to Coahuila as a single state, and the colonists' later demand to restore it shaped the first year of the Texas Revolution. - [Fredonian Declaration of Independence](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/pre-independence-era/freedoniaind/) (December 21, 1826): The declaration of the short-lived Republic of Fredonia, proclaimed at Nacogdoches after a dispute between the empresario Haden Edwards and the Mexican government. Mexican troops and Austin's colonial militia ended the revolt within weeks. - [Constitution of the State of Coahuila and Texas](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/constitution-of-coahuila-y-tejas-1827/) (March 11, 1827): The state constitution under which Texas was governed as part of Coahuila. The state capital and most of the legislature sat in Coahuila, far from the Texas settlements. - [Turtle Bayou Resolutions](https://tnmeducation.org/library/founding/turtle-bayou-resolutions-june-13-1832/) (June 13, 1832): Resolutions adopted by colonists gathered at Turtle Bayou, near Anahuac, during the 1832 disturbances there, condemning the military rule of the Bustamante administration and pledging support for the Mexican Constitution and for General Santa Anna. They survive in an address to Colonel José Antonio Mexía that also lists the colonists' grievances. - [Declaration of the People of Texas in General Convention Assembled](https://tnmeducation.org/library/founding/declaration-of-the-people-of-texas-november-7-1835/) (November 7, 1835): Adopted by the Consultation at San Felipe de Austin. It declared that the people of Texas had taken up arms in defense of the Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824, and that while the federal system remained overthrown they held the right to withdraw from the Union and establish an independent government. - [Plan and Powers of the Provisional Government of Texas](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/plans-and-powers-of-the-provisional-government/) (November 1835): The frame of government adopted by the Consultation in the fall of 1835. It created a governor, a lieutenant governor, and a General Council to run Texas during the war, months before independence was declared. - [Goliad Declaration of Independence](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/goliadind/) (December 20, 1835): Signed at Goliad more than two months before the convention at Washington acted. Its signers declared Texas a free, sovereign, and independent state, ahead of the provisional government, which still held to the Mexican Constitution of 1824. - [Texas Declaration of Independence](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/texas-declaration-of-independence-march-2-1836/) (March 2, 1836): Adopted by the delegates of the people of Texas in General Convention at Washington, on the Brazos River, while the Alamo was under siege. It lists the grievances against the government of Santa Anna and declares Texas a free, sovereign, and independent republic. - [Constitution of the Republic of Texas](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/constitution-of-the-republic-of-texas-march-17-1836/) (March 17, 1836): Written by the same convention two weeks after the Declaration. It set up the Republic's three branches of government and a declaration of rights, and it governed Texas until annexation in 1845. - [Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States](https://tnmeducation.org/library/founding/joint-resolution-for-annexing-texas-march-1-1845/) (March 1, 1845): The joint resolution of the United States Congress, approved by President John Tyler, consenting that the Republic of Texas be erected into a new state and admitted to the Union. It set the conditions Texas would have to accept, and it gave the President the alternative of negotiating the terms of admission with the Republic instead. - [Ordinance of Annexation](https://tnmeducation.org/library/founding/ordinance-of-annexation-july-4-1845/) (July 4, 1845): Adopted on its opening day by the Convention of 1845 at Austin, presided over by Thomas J. Rusk. It recited the first and second sections of the Joint Resolution of Congress of March 1, 1845, and declared in the name of the people of Texas their assent to the proposals, conditions and guarantees those sections contained. - [Constitution of the State of Texas](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/constitution-of-the-state-of-texas-1845/) (August 27, 1845): The constitution adopted by the Convention of 1845, presided over by Thomas J. Rusk, as Texas moved from republic to state. It was put to the voters along with the question of annexation. - [Constitution of the State of Texas (1876)](https://tnmeducation.org/library/founding/constitution-of-the-state-of-texas-1876/) (February 15, 1876): The constitution framed by the Convention of 1875 at Austin and ratified by the voters of Texas on February 15, 1876. This is the text as originally adopted, before any of the amendments made since; the constitution itself remains in force. ## The Record: Treaties of the Republic Agreements the Republic of Texas made with Mexico, the United States, European powers, and the nations of the region. Collection page: https://tnmeducation.org/library/collections/treaties/ - [Treaty with the Cherokee and Associated Bands](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/treaty-of-peace-with-cherokee-february-23-1836/) (February 23, 1836): Negotiated by commissioners Sam Houston and John Forbes with Chief Bowl and leaders of the Cherokee and associated bands in East Texas. It set out lands for the bands and promised peace while the revolution was under way. - [Treaty of Velasco (Secret)](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/treaty-of-velasco-private-texas-independence-from-mexico-may-14-1836/) (May 14, 1836): The companion agreement signed the same day. In it Santa Anna undertook to work for Mexico's recognition of Texas independence in return for his release. - [Treaty of Velasco (Public)](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/treaty-of-velasco-public-mexicos-surrender-to-texas-may-14-1836/) (May 14, 1836): Signed by President David G. Burnet and Antonio López de Santa Anna, captured at San Jacinto three weeks earlier. Santa Anna agreed to end hostilities and withdraw Mexican troops beyond the Rio Grande. - [Treaty of Peace with the Lipan Apache](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/treaty-of-peace-with-the-lipan-indians-january-8-1838/) (January 8, 1838): A treaty of peace and friendship between the Republic of Texas and the Lipan. The endorsement on the original records its adoption by the Senate of the Republic. - [Claims Convention with the United States](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/treaty-between-the-united-states-and-the-republic-of-texas-april-11-1838/) (April 11, 1838): Signed at Houston to settle American claims over the Texas Navy's capture of the brigs Pocket and Durango. It is one of the Republic's first agreements with a foreign government as an independent state. - [Boundary Convention with the United States](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/treaty-between-the-united-states-and-the-republic-of-texas-april-25-1838/) (April 25, 1838): An agreement to survey and mark the boundary between the Republic of Texas and the United States. It was signed by John Forsyth for the United States and Memucan Hunt for Texas, and ratifications were exchanged that October. - [Treaty with France](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/treaty-of-recognition-peace-and-commerce-with-france-september-25-1839/) (September 25, 1839): A treaty of amity, navigation, and commerce between Texas and France. This copy is the proclamation issued by President Mirabeau B. Lamar on February 15, 1840. - [Treaty with the Kingdom of the Netherlands](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/republic-of-texas/treaty-with-kingdom-of-the-netherlands-september-181844/) (September 18, 1840): A treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation between Texas and the Netherlands. This copy is the proclamation President Sam Houston issued on January 4, 1843, after ratification. - [Treaties with the United Kingdom](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/treaty-of-recognition-with-the-united-kingdom-and-ireland-may-26-1842/) (Ratified May 26, 1842): The papers of the Republic's treaties with Great Britain, beginning with President Lamar's letter of credence for James Hamilton. The document closes with Queen Victoria's ratification, signed at Buckingham Palace. - [Treaty of Bird's Fort](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/treaty-of-birds-fort-september-29-1843/) (September 29, 1843): A peace treaty between the Republic and several nations of the region, among them the Delaware, Chickasaw, Waco, Tawakoni, Caddo, and Cherokee. President Sam Houston proclaimed it on February 3, 1844, after Senate ratification. - [Convention with the Hanseatic Republics](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/convention-of-friendship-commerce-and-navigation-with-the-hanseatic-league-april-17-1844/) (April 17, 1844): A convention of friendship, commerce, and navigation between Texas and the free cities of Lübeck, Bremen, and Hamburg, signed at Paris by William Henry Daingerfield for Texas. - [Treaty of Tehuacana Creek](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/republic-of-texas/tehuacana-creek-treaty-october-9-1844/) (October 9, 1844): A treaty of peace, friendship, and commerce with the Comanche and other nations, proclaimed by President Anson Jones on February 5, 1845, one of the last treaties of the Republic. ## The Record: Letters, Speeches, and Accounts Letters and speeches from the revolution, and the histories written about it afterward. Collection page: https://tnmeducation.org/library/collections/voices/ - [Address of the Committee of Safety of Liberty](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/the-most-important-letter-in-texas-history/) (1835): An address from the committee of safety for the municipality of Liberty to its citizens, urging them to act together in the crisis with the Mexican government. It ends on Nelson's signal at Trafalgar, recast as Texas expects every man to do his duty. - [Texas: A Brief Account of the Colonial Settlements](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/texas/) (1835 to 1836): A wartime account, signed Curtius, of how the Anglo-American colonies in Texas began and grew, and of the causes of the war with Mexico. Parts first ran in New Orleans newspapers. - [Letters of William Barret Travis from the Alamo](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/correspondence-of-colonel-travis-from-the-alamo/) (February 23 to March 3, 1836): Every surviving letter Travis wrote during the siege, from the first call for men and provisions sent to Gonzales to his last known letter. The Alamo fell on the morning of March 6, 1836. - [Address at Louisville, Kentucky](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/address-of-the-honorable-s-f-austin-delivered-at-louisville-kentucky-march-7-1836-2/) (March 7, 1836): Austin's speech to the citizens of Louisville while he was in the United States as a commissioner for Texas. He explains the causes of the conflict with the Mexican government and asks for support. - [Not Yours to Give](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/pre-independence-era/not-yours-to-give/) (Published 1884): A story from Edward S. Ellis's 1884 Life of Colonel David Crockett, in which Crockett, then a congressman from Tennessee, explains why he voted against spending public money on charity. Crockett died at the Alamo in 1836. - [Texas: An Informal Biography](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/pre-independence-era/texas-an-informal-biography-by-owen-p-white/) (1945): A popular history of Texas by the author Owen P. White, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1945. ## The Record: Law and Political Thought The works on sovereignty, constitutions, and the law of nations that the founders read, and modern scholarship on self-determination. Collection page: https://tnmeducation.org/library/collections/law/ - [The Republic](https://tnmeducation.org/library/political-philosophy/the-republic/) (Translated by Benjamin Jowett): Plato's dialogue on justice and the best form of government, in Benjamin Jowett's translation. - [Politics](https://tnmeducation.org/library/political-philosophy/politics-aristotle/) (Translated by Benjamin Jowett, 1885): Aristotle's study of how cities are governed, comparing the constitutions of the Greek world. - [The Art of War](https://tnmeducation.org/library/political-philosophy/art-of-war/) (Translated by Lionel Giles, 1910): Sun Tzu's treatise on strategy, in the 1910 English translation by Lionel Giles of the British Museum, with his preface and introduction. - [Leviathan](https://tnmeducation.org/library/political-philosophy/leviathan/) (1651): Hobbes's argument that people form a commonwealth and accept a sovereign power to escape a state of war. - [De Cive (Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society)](https://tnmeducation.org/library/political-philosophy/de-cive/) (1651 English edition): Hobbes's treatise on the citizen and the state, in its first English edition. - [Two Treatises of Government](https://tnmeducation.org/library/political-philosophy/two-treatises-on-government/) (1689): Locke's two treatises on government, including the argument that legitimate government rests on the consent of the governed. - [The Law of Nations](https://tnmeducation.org/library/independence-and-self-determination/international-law/the-law-of-nations-or-principles-of-the-law-of-nature-applied-to-the-conduct-and-affairs-of-nations-and-sovereigns/) (1758; this edition 1844): Vattel's treatise on the rights and duties of nations, widely read by the founders of the American and Texan republics. It treats a nation as a political society with the right to govern itself. - [The Wealth of Nations](https://tnmeducation.org/library/economics/fiscal-policy/wealth-of-nations/) (1776): Adam Smith's inquiry into how nations grow wealthy through the division of labor and free exchange. - [A Brief Enquiry into the True Nature and Character of Our Federal Government](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/constitutional-law/the-federal-government-by-abel-p-upshur/) (1840): Upshur's reply to Justice Joseph Story's Commentaries on the Constitution, arguing that the Constitution was made by the states as sovereign parties. Upshur later served as U.S. Secretary of State and opened the negotiations over the annexation of Texas before his death in 1844. - [The Law](https://tnmeducation.org/library/political-philosophy/the-law/) (1850): Bastiat's short essay on the proper purpose of law, written in France in 1850. - [Texas v. White](https://tnmeducation.org/library/law/texas-v-white-1869/) (1869): The Supreme Court decision in the suit Texas brought to recover United States bonds sold by its wartime government. Chief Justice Chase held that Texas had never ceased to be a State of the Union and could sue in the Court, and that the sale of the bonds passed no title. Justice Grier dissented on every point, and Justices Swayne and Miller dissented on jurisdiction. The full opinion and dissents as printed in the United States Reports. - [Principles of Freedom](https://tnmeducation.org/library/political-philosophy/contemporary-theories/principles-of-freedom-by-terence-macswiney/) (1921): Essays on freedom and national independence by Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, published after his death in 1920. - [From Dictatorship to Democracy](https://tnmeducation.org/library/activism/grassroots-organizing/from-dictatorship-to-democracy/) (1993 (fourth U.S. edition, 2010)): Gene Sharp's handbook on how nonviolent struggle has brought down dictatorships and what planning such a struggle requires. It was first published in Bangkok in 1993 for the democracy movement in Burma. - [On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals](https://tnmeducation.org/library/activism/grassroots-organizing/on-strategic-nonviolent-conflict/) (2004): Robert Helvey's guide to the strategy and planning of nonviolent struggle, published by the Albert Einstein Institution. - [CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle](https://tnmeducation.org/library/activism/grassroots-organizing/a-guide-to-effective-nonviolent-struggle/) (2007): The training curriculum of the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) in Belgrade, on planning and running a nonviolent campaign. - [Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession](https://tnmeducation.org/library/independence-and-self-determination/theoretical-foundations/creating-new-states-theory-and-practice-of-secession/) (2007): A book on the political and legal theory of how new states form when a region separates from an existing state, and on how that has happened in practice. - [Secession: A Word in Search of a Meaning](https://tnmeducation.org/library/independence-and-self-determination/theoretical-foundations/secession-a-word-in-search-of-a-meaning/) (2008): The opening chapter of On the Way to Statehood (2008), on how scholars and lawyers have defined the word in its title. - [Judge Napolitano on Texas Independence](https://tnmeducation.org/library/independence-and-self-determination/napolitano-on-secession/) (2009): Judge Andrew Napolitano, then a Fox News judicial analyst, on the Joe Pags radio show in San Antonio, answering whether Texas has the right to leave the union. - [The History of Ethno-National Referendums, 1791-2011](https://tnmeducation.org/library/independence-and-self-determination/case-studies/the-history-of-ethno-national-referendums-1791-2011/) (2012): A survey of referendums on independence and national self-government held between 1791 and 2011, published in the journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. - ["We're Out of Here": A Discussion of the Concept of Secession in the United States](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/constitutional-law/were-out-of-here-a-discussion-of-the-concept-of-secession-in-the-united-states/) (2013): A paper on how the idea of a state leaving the union has been argued in American political history, presented to the Midwest Political Science Association in 2013. - [Brexit: The Movie](https://tnmeducation.org/library/independence-and-self-determination/case-studies/brexit-the-movie/) (2016): Martin Durkin's crowdfunded documentary, released before the 2016 referendum, on Britain's relationship with the European Union and the case for leaving it. - [Secession and Intelligibility of a Referendum Question: From Québec to Scotland (1980-2014)](https://tnmeducation.org/library/independence-and-self-determination/international-law/secession-and-intelligibility-of-a-referendum-question-rq-from-quebec-to-scotland-1980-2014/) (2016): A study of the questions put to voters in independence referendums held between 1980 and 2014, among them Quebec and Scotland: how each was worded, and how clearly voters could understand them. - [Was Washington's First Term Legitimate? Texas v. White and the Constitutional Convention](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legal-aspects/constitutional-law/was-washingtons-first-term-legitimate-texas-v-white-and-the-constitutional-convention/) (2020): A working paper on Texas v. White (1869), the Supreme Court decision holding that a state could not leave the union on its own, and on what its reasoning implies about how the Constitution was adopted. ## The Record: Texas Government Today Official guides to how the Texas Legislature works and how the Texas Constitution is amended. Collection page: https://tnmeducation.org/library/collections/government/ - [The Legislative Process in Texas](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legislative-process/texas-state-legislature/the-legislative-process-in-texas-2023/) (Current edition, July 2025): The Texas Legislative Council's guide to how a bill moves through the Texas Legislature and reaches the governor's desk. Our guide How Texas makes laws follows it step by step. - [Amendments to the Texas Constitution Since 1876](https://tnmeducation.org/library/legislative-process/legal-framework/constitutional-amendments-since-1876/) (Current through November 4, 2025): Every amendment the Legislature has proposed to the Constitution of 1876, and how Texas voters decided each one. The Legislative Council updates it after each amendment election. ## The Record: Texas History on Film Short films and lectures on the Texas Revolution and the institutions of the Republic. Each opens on YouTube. Collection page: https://tnmeducation.org/library/collections/film/ - [History of the Texas Rangers](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/pre-independence-era/history-of-the-texas-rangers/) (Lecture): Midwestern State University historian Michael Collins on the history of the Texas Rangers. - [The Texas Revolution: The Battle of Gonzales](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/pre-independence-era/the-texas-revolution-battle-of-gonzales/) (October 2, 1835): A short film on the first battle of the Texas Revolution, fought over a cannon the Mexican army demanded back from Gonzales. - [The Texas Revolution: The Siege of Béxar](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/pre-independence-era/the-texas-revolution-siege-of-bexar/) (October to December 1835): A short film on the Texian siege and capture of San Antonio de Béxar in the fall of 1835. - [History of the Texas Navy](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/pre-independence-era/history-of-the-texas-navy/) (1835 to 1846): A film on the navies of the Texas Revolution and the Republic. - [Independence! A Lone Star Rises](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/republic-of-texas/independence-a-lone-star-rises/) (March 1836): A film on the Convention of 1836, whose delegates declared independence, wrote a constitution, and chose an interim government while the Alamo was under siege. - [The Texas Revolution: The Battle of the Alamo](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/pre-independence-era/the-texas-revolution-battle-of-the-alamo/) (February 23 to March 6, 1836): A short film on the thirteen-day siege of the Alamo. - [The Texas Revolution: The Goliad Massacre](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/pre-independence-era/the-texas-revolution-goliad-massacre/) (March 27, 1836): A short film on the execution of Colonel James Fannin's surrendered command at Goliad. - [The Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/pre-independence-era/the-texas-revolution-battle-of-san-jacinto/) (April 21, 1836): A short film on the battle that ended the Texas Revolution and led to Santa Anna's capture. - [A Guide to the Texas State Capitol](https://tnmeducation.org/library/texas-history/statehood-and-federal-era/guide-texas-state-capitol/) (Tour): A guided look at the Texas State Capitol in Austin. ## About - [About TNM Education](https://tnmeducation.org/about/): mission in the charter's words, board, and method - [Reading list](https://tnmeducation.org/reading-list/): the case of Texas, one document a week, by email - [Privacy](https://tnmeducation.org/privacy/)