Past Programs

NEH 40th Anniversary Program

Humanities Texas and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum celebrated the 40th anniversary of the National Endowment for the Humanities with a public program on October 27, 2005, at the LBJ School of Public Affairs Bass Lecture Hall. NEH Chairman Bruce Cole and former chairmen Joseph D. Duffey, William R. Ferris, and Sheldon Hackney reflected on their leadership of the NEH and the Endowment’s contribution to the intellectual and cultural life of the nation.

Lynda Johnson Robb, Bruce Cole, and Luci Baines Johnson. Photo by Charles Bogel.

Prime Time Family Reading Time

Prime Time Family Reading Time centered on families and rooted in the humanities. Guided by a storyteller and scholar, families read and discussed award-winning children’s books that introduced participants to the universal themes found in tales from history, fairy, and folk tales from around the world and stories about the problems that children encounter. The books were grouped according to themes such as fairness, courage, greed, honesty, dreams, determination, and cleverness.

A children's reading program at the Menard Public Library.

Parallel and Crossover Lives: Texas Before and After Desegregation

This project was initiated in 2000 to document personal narratives about the coming of school desegregation in Texas communities. In partnership with the Texas Association of Developing Colleges (Dallas) and the Texas African American Heritage Association (Austin), Humanities Texas (formally the Texas Council for the Humanities) developed Parallel and Crossover Lives: Texas Before and After Desegregation, a pilot community oral history project at Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins and Huston-Tillotson College in Austin.

Melba Theater, by R.C. Hickman, 1955. R. C. Hickman Photographic Archive (VN 85-43-000279a), The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.