In the last decade, archeologists have made a number of fascinating new discoveries about...
Outstanding Teaching Award Nominations
Humanities Texas is accepting nominations for 2025 Outstanding Teaching Awards through Monday, December 9, 2024.
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12/9/2024
Humanities Texas is accepting nominations for 2025 Outstanding Teaching Awards through Monday, December 9, 2024.
9/25/2024
On September 25 and 27, the National Endowment for the Humanities and Humanities Texas will hold two free grants workshops in San Antonio (in-person) and Austin (in-person and livestream.
9/16/2024
We are pleased to introduce Mexican Fiestas, a new Humanities Texas traveling exhibition.
9/16/2024
In honor of our twentieth anniversary of teacher programs, we are pleased to share reflections from teachers who have participated in these programs.
9/4/2024
This fall, Humanities Texas will conduct in-person teacher professional development workshops throughout the state as well as a number of online webinars.
10/11/2024
The Humanities Texas Board of Directors will have vacancies in 2025. The deadline for nominations is October 11, 2024.
8/16/2024
Humanities Texas is pleased to announce a new curriculum set supporting classroom use of Texas Originals.
6/20/2024
Humanities Texas is pleased to announce a new traveling exhibition on the history and cultural significance of Juneteenth.
6/20/2024
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Humanities Texas Outstanding Teaching Awards.
5/20/2024
Humanities Texas is excited to introduce season three of Texas Originals.
Current Events
September 15 - December 5, 2024
Featuring striking images by Geoff Winningham, the...
October 9 - November 20, 2024
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition includes forty-four facsimile prints of...
October 20–November 20, 2024
From October 20–November 20, 2024, the exhibition "History in Focus: Central and Eastern...
November 7–December 6, 2024
This Humanities Texas traveling...
November 7-December 6, 2024
Sam Houston remains a larger-than-life figure in Texas and American history with a career...
November 12, 6:00 p.m.
On Tuesday, November 12, at 6:00 p.m., SMTX will present the documentary Faders Up: The...
November 16, 2024
On November 16, The Voces Oral History Center will host their 25th anniversary conference....
November 16–17, 2024
The Texas Book Festival will take place November 16–17 in and around the State Capitol in...
November 16, 2024, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
From 5:00–7:00 p.m. on November 16, San Jacinto Museum will hold the lecture "San Jacinto...
November 19 - December 31, 2024
In the last decade, archeologists have made a number of fascinating new discoveries about...
November 22, 2024, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
From 12:00–1:00 p.m., join Music Director George Jackson and other performing artists for...
December 1, 2024-January 31, 2025
In the last decade, archeologists have made a number of fascinating new discoveries about...
December 6–December 7, 2024
From December 6–7, 2024, the Festival of Texas Fiddling will present the annual Texas...
December 6, 2024, 6:30 p.m.
At 6:30 p.m. on December 6, the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum...
February 1-March 31, 2025
On June 19, 1865, General Orders No. 3, was issued in Galveston, announcing to the people...
February 24-March 22, 2025
Sam Houston remains a larger-than-life figure in Texas and American history with a career...
February 26-April 2, 2025
In the last decade, archeologists have made a number of fascinating new discoveries about...
March 3 - 28, 2025
In the last decade, archeologists have made a number of fascinating new discoveries about...
April 1-29, 2025
Sam Houston remains a larger-than-life figure in Texas and American history with a career...
May 1-29, 2025
In the last decade, archeologists have made a number of fascinating new discoveries about...
May 3 - June 28, 2025
In the last decade, archeologists have made a number of fascinating new discoveries about...
June 3–July 1, 2025
On June 19, 1865, General Orders No. 3, was issued in Galveston, announcing to the people...
October 6-November 1, 2025
In the last decade, archeologists have made a number of fascinating new discoveries about...
December 1 - 29, 2025
In the last decade, archeologists have made a number of fascinating new discoveries about...
January 10 - March 8, 2026
In the last decade, archeologists have made a number of fascinating new discoveries about...
March 14 - June 13, 2026
This exhibition presents photographs by renowned documentary photographer Russell Lee and...
March 22-April 17, 2026
In the last decade, archeologists have made a number of fascinating new discoveries about...
Humanities Around Texas
Candy Brown Holocaust and Human Rights Educator Series, a professional development series for teachers from January–October 2024.
Hard Times Come Again No More: Depression Era Photography, an exhibition at The Grace Museum through February 8, 2025.
Black Cowboys: An American Story, an exhibition at the Witte Museum through February 9, 2025.
Legacies of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, an exhibition at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum through February 16, 2025.
Siempre Selena/Selena Forever, an exhibition at El Paso Museum of Art through February 2025.