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Deep In The Heart By Gilbert Morris: A book My Texas History Teacher would have made us read.

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I was born In Philadelphia but raised in Houston and LaPorte Texas.I consider all these cities my hometowns because I love the history that surrounds them. I enjoy reading books that are set in these states as it makes me feel a bit closer to home now that I live in IL. This book in particular brought back lots of memories of studying Texas history in school.Going to school in Texas we were required to take Texas history in which we studied about the Alamo and the battle of San Jacinto and Santa Anna,Sam Houston, William Travis and of course Stephen Austin. All these fascinating men helped my home state become and independant. I had a Texas history teacher who was Spanish and she was passionate about the history of Texas when we were in her class we lived and breathed the Battle of the Alamo. These men became real during our one hour class. Our field trip to The San Jacinto Monument was steeped in small history lessons. We were taught to be proud of our State's struggle to to be in...

New Post on Romancing History

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I have been trying to figure out how to connect the new posts on the Romancing  History blog So I could share with you all the interesting historical romances I have been reading lately.  It never occured to me to create a button and link it to the new posts. Here is the button that I will be using when I post a new review which fall under Historical Romances.  I just posted a new review  and I hope you stop by and take a look around.