Explore Texas

National Historic Landmarks are historic places that have exceptional value illustrating our heritage. The Alamo might be one of the best-known monuments, but reader will learn that there over 45 sites in Texas that are marked as historical monuments.

Plains, deserts, mountains, and water cover the great state of Texas, giving it one of our country's most unique geographical landscapes. This book teaches students how Texas's geography contributed to settling the state. Standard-driven content is made accessible by age-appropriate text and engaging images.

Texas is the birthplace of some extraordinary people. This book covers some of them, such as Melinda Gates, astronaut Shannon Walker, and Bessie Coleman, the first African American female pilot. Age-appropriate text teaches readers about this state's most important movers and shakers, while historical and contemporary images reinforce the book's key concepts.

Texas cuisine is influenced by various cultures, including German, British, African American, Cajun/Creole, Mexican, Native American and Asian. Most people associate Texas cuisine with Tex-Mex cooking, but readers will learn that, for instance, the Texas barbecue is equally famous as well as unique in all of the United States.

Texas is home to some of our country's most populous cities, but before major development came to Texas it was a wild frontier with just a few tiny settlements. Readers will enjoy reading about Texas's most important cities and how they grew into the major metropolises they are today.

Texas's vast and spectacular landscape has more than 100 national and state parks. From the state's own Grand Canyon, to historic sites and a forest, readers will learn that the state's scenery is much more than the deserts it is so often associated with.

Besides oil, Texas has long been associated with cattle and agriculture. Learning about these industries will allow readers understand how valuable their development is to the growth of the state of Texas, as well as America's economy.

Texas has a wide variety of native plants and animals, as well as species that have been introduced. Some of the species are extremely rare and are found only in Texas. With age-appropriate text and engaging images, readers will learn about the different species throughout the state, and find out about some that are or will soon be extinct.