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Framed oil painting of the wounded Sam Houston lying under an oak tree as the captured Santa Anna is brought before him, surrounded by Texian soldiers.

The Reading List

The case of Texas, one document a week. A treaty of the Republic, a letter from the Alamo, a clause of the Constitution of 1836: each email brings one document from the record and a short note on where it came from and what it means.

Painting, "Surrender of Santa Anna," by William Henry Huddle (1886), in the South Foyer of the Texas Capitol, William Henry Huddle (painting, 1886); Carol M. Highsmith (photograph, 2014). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project.

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