In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros...
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12/10/2021
Deadline to nominate an exceptional educator for a 2022 Outstanding Teaching Award!
11/17/2021
Join Humanities Texas and Foodways Texas for "A Conversation with Jessica Dupuy." This event is free and open to the public.
09/01/2021
This fall, Humanities Texas held online teacher programs covering central topics in U.S. history, Texas history, and English language arts!
Current Events
October 30–December 11, 2021
In the 1930s, photographers working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) captured...
November 1–
December 11, 2021
December 11, 2021
In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros...
November 1–
December 12, 2021
December 12, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling...
November 16–December 25, 2021
Capturing the sweeping visual imagery of the original miniseries, the Lonesome Dove...
January 1–30, 2022
In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros...
January 3-31, 2022
Drawn from files of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service archives at Texas A&M...
January 5–
February 5, 2022
February 5, 2022
Adopted on December 15, 1791, as the first ten amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of...
January 10–
February 7, 2022
February 7, 2022
In the 1840s, German immigrants began settling at New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Sisterdale...
January 10–February 4, 2022
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition is both a cartoon history of Texas politics and...
January 12–
February 22, 2022
February 22, 2022
Capturing the sweeping visual imagery of the original miniseries, the Lonesome Dove...
January 13—
February 10, 2022
February 10, 2022
Created to celebrate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, this ...
January 14-February 19, 2022
Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America Through Galveston Island, a new Humanities...
January 22–
March 5, 2022
March 5, 2022
This exhibition presents photographs by renowned documentary photographer Russell Lee and...
January 31–
February 27, 2022
February 27, 2022
This Humanities Texas traveling...
February 2–
March 16, 2022
March 16, 2022
Based on the Texas Monthly October 2017 cover story, “Voices from the Storm,” this...
February 5—
May 14, 2022
May 14, 2022
Melina Mara began photographing the thirteen women in the U.S. Senate in 2001, continuing...
February 20–
March 31, 2022
March 31, 2022
Created to celebrate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, this ...
March 1-29, 2022
On the frozen morning of March 1, 1836, forty-four men shivered in an unfinished house in...
March 2–
April 13, 2022
April 13, 2022
Photographer Rick Williams has captured images of workers and work places in three diverse...
March 3–26, 2022
The annexation of Texas as the twenty-eighth member of the United States of America had a...
March 7–
April 4, 2022
April 4, 2022
Drawn from files of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service archives at Texas A&M...
March 7–April 4, 2022
In the 1930s, photographers working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) captured...
March 29-April 26, 2022
Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America Through Galveston Island, a new Humanities...
Humanities around Texas
Texas Folklife will hold their annual Texas Fiddling Festival and Symposium to recognize and celebrate the state's musical heritage from December 3–5.
December 11-12, the Puerto Rican Cultural Center will put on Valiente Soy, a bilingual community theater project for the public that discusses current events in Puerto Rico through history, folklore, and living traditions.
The Nasher Sculpture Center will display Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life beginning January 9.