Texas History for Teachers - Who was Juan Seguin?

Dr. Andrew Torget explores the life of Juan Seguin, a Mexican-born citizen who supported Texas’ right to influence Mexican law, and fought for Texas Independence while commanding a unit at the Battle of San Jacinto. This video is related to our free lesson, Voices: Tejanos in the Texas Revolution https://education.texashistory.unt.edu/units/7/texas-revolution/voices-tejanos-in-the-texas-revolution/, from UNT's Texas History for Teachers website https://education.texashistory.unt.edu/. A version of this video with an American Sign Langugage (ASL) interpreter can be found here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of1qLCZSYgI). Closed captioning is available in English or Spanish. The Texas History for Teachers (TX4T) project provides Texas social studies teachers access to evidence-based historical content and best-practices pedagogical resources for teaching Texas history. The long-term TX4T vision is to produce a full, free Texas history curriculum that combines the very best of historical knowledge, accessibility. and educational pedagogy, with all of our content mapped to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards for teaching 4th and 7th grade social studies. Texas History for Teachers is the educational component for The Portal to Texas History, a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials (https://texashistory.unt.edu/).