Capturing the sweeping visual imagery of the original miniseries, the Lonesome Dove...
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This fall, Humanities Texas will hold a number of free professional development webinar series for Texas teachers covering central topics in U.S. history, Texas history, and English language arts.Apply now!
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12/10/2021
Deadline to nominate an exceptional educator for a 2022 Outstanding Teaching Award!
09/15/2021
Final postmark deadline for fall 2021 major grants.
09/01/2021
Apply now for fall online teacher programs covering central topics in U.S. history, Texas history, and English language arts!
01/01/2021
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Current Events
September 3, 2021–
January 10, 2022
January 10, 2022
In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros...
September 3–
September 25, 2021
September 25, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition examines the document upon which our country was...
September 4–November 27, 2021
State Fair is a visual distillation of Arthur Grace's photographic odyssey through...
September 6–October 4, 2021
Created to celebrate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, this ...
September 7– 30, 2021
A celebratory survey of works by Latinos in the past thirty years, this Humanities Texas...
September 13–October 22, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling...
September 13– 30, 2021
n the 1930s, photographers working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) captured...
September 13–October 22, 2021
Featuring thirty-eight photographs paired with excerpts from his dynamic speeches,...
September 15–October 13, 2021
In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros...
September 20–October 17, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition surveys the Alamo of the Texas imagination...
September 28–October 22, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition provides a historical overview of U.S. Latino...
October 1–31, 2021
Adopted on December 15, 1791, as the first ten amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of...
October 4–November 4, 2021
In the 1840s, German immigrants began settling at New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Sisterdale...
October 4–31, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition surveys the vitality and breadth of creative...
October 4–29, 2021
The availability of books and the spread of literacy profoundly influenced the discovery of...
October 5–November 30, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition examines the document upon which our country was...
October 9–November 6, 2021
A celebratory survey of works by Latinos in the past thirty years, this Humanities Texas...
October 15–November 12, 2021
Created to celebrate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, this ...
October 18–November 15, 2021
On the frozen morning of March 1, 1836, forty-four men shivered in an unfinished house in...
October 30–December 11, 2021
In the 1930s, photographers working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) captured...
November 1–29, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling...
November 1–December 11, 2021
In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros...
November 1 – December 12, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling...
November 2– 23, 2021
Drawn from files of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service archives at Texas A&M...
November 11–December 25, 2021
Capturing the sweeping visual imagery of the original miniseries, the Lonesome Dove...
January 10–February 7, 2022
In the 1840s, German immigrants began settling at New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Sisterdale...
January 12–February 22, 2022
Capturing the sweeping visual imagery of the original miniseries, the Lonesome Dove...
Humanities around Texas
The Neill-Cochran House in Austin has launched a 360-degree virtual tour of their museum.
On September 17–18, the Admiral Nimitz Foundation in Fredericksburg will host its annual symposium on World War II, which teachers and students can attend for free.
On September 24, the exhibition The Blessings of the Mystery will open at The University of Texas at Austin Visual Arts Center.
Beginning in October, the Texas Shakespeare Festival at Kilgore College will tour their productions of As You Like It and Twelfth Night to East Texas schools.
On October 6, Texas A&M University-San Antonio will host a discussion titled "From Tenochtitlan to San Antonio: 500 Years after the Spanish Conquest."