Funded by a grant from Houston Endowment, Inc., developing Cartographic Connections was a three-year, interactive electronic pilot project. Its goal is to connect secondary school students and teachers to a primary source -- historic maps of Texas, the Southwest and beyond, dating from the 1500s through the 1900s. Through the use of maps, students gain a better understanding of history and the sources that reveal it. The social studies and other programs in Texas schools can also benefit from the use of these historic maps.

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The Tejano Voices Project includes, to date, 77 oral history interviews with Tejano and Tejana leaders from across the state conducted by Dr. José Ángel Gutiérrez, associate professor of political science at The University of Texas at Arlington. These interviews were conducted in 1992-1999 and emphasize the personal stories and struggles of the interviewees, many of whom are the first individuals of Mexican descent in their communities elected or appointed to government office. The interviews were videotaped, transcribed, bound, and placed in UT Arlington Library Special Collections, where they are made accessible to students, scholars, and the general public. The interviews are unique, and reflect the history of the Tejano community as it pressed for an end to racial segregation in the state and access to political power in the post-WWII period.