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Read about Cabeza de Vaca, one of the first Europeans to extensively explore Texas after an accidental landing at Galveston Island.
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Find out about the life and work of Antonio Margil de Jesus, an early missionary to Texas.
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Texas State Historical Association: Antonio Margil De Jesus

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Read a short biography about Antonio Margil de Jesus, an early missionary to Texas.
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Explores the early life of Christopher Columbus and how he discovered America.
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An overview of the French, Dutch, and English explorers in the late 1500's and early 1600's.
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Loc: America's Story: Johnson's Task, Unify Space Program

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Russia was ahead in the "space race" in 1961. In this article, the Library of Congress discusses how President Kennedy assigned Lyndon Johnson the task of uniting the different parts of the U.S. space program into NASA.
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History.com: Hispanic History Milestones: Timeline

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The American Hispanic/Latinx history is a rich, diverse and long one, with immigrants, refugees and Spanish-speaking or Indigenous people living in the United States since long before the nation was established. America's Hispanic...
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Fulfilling Her Destiny, Panama City Becomes Municipal Giant

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This page is a excerpt of an old (1969) newspaper article about the early history of Panama - when Spanish explorers first crossed the Isthmus and decided to call it by the name of a fishing village.

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