Join Humanities Texas on May 2 at Rice Cinema in Houston for a screening of The Mark of...
Summer Institutes
This summer, Humanities Texas will hold teacher professional development institutes in Austin, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Apply now!
Latest News
04/17/19
Humanities Texas will host screenings of The Mark of War, followed by Q&A with Director Ricardo Ainslie, in Bryan, Houston, and El Paso.
04/08/19
Apply now for our upcoming summer institutes in Austin, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio.
03/28/19
Catch up on the latest news from Humanities Texas in our March e-newsletter.
3/10/19
In March and April, Veterans' Voices reading and discussion programs will take place in College Station, El Paso, and Houston.
03/01/19
Listen to Texas Originals, a radio series profiling individuals who have had a profound influence on Texas history and culture.
Current Events
May 14, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Join Humanities Texas on May 14 at Alamo Drafthouse in El Paso for a screening of The...
April 3–30, 2019
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition surveys the vitality and breadth of creative...
April 5—May 3, 2019
This Humanities Texas traveling...
April 17–May 15, 2019
Drawn from files of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service archives at Texas A&M...
May 7 – June 15, 2019
The annexation of Texas as the twenty-eighth member of the United States of America had a...
May 14 – August 6, 2019
Melina Mara began photographing the thirteen women in the U.S. Senate in 2001, continuing...
May 14–June 22, 2019
Featuring photographs, facsimiles of landmark documents, and quotations by Dr. King and...
June 24 – July 31, 2019
Drawn from files of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service archives at Texas A&M...
August 19 – September 30, 2019
State Fair is a visual distillation of Arthur Grace's photographic odyssey through...
September 1 – October 1, 2019
William Shakespeare is the quintessential subject for a humanities program. Born into a...
October 1–31, 2019
In the 1840s, German immigrants began settling at New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Sisterdale...
October 1—November 30, 2019
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition is composed of thirty-one photographs from the...
October 12, 2019—January 17, 2020
In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros...
November 1, 2019–
January 10, 2020
January 10, 2020
Curated by a native of Sudan, this Humanities Texas...
November 11—December 3, 2019
The annexation of Texas as the twenty-eighth member of the United States of America had a...
March 1—31, 2020
Created to celebrate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, this ...
May 4—June 12, 2020
This Humanities Texas traveling...
Humanities around Texas
Texas Film Round-Up, a free digitization project by Texas Archive of the Moving Image at the Fredericksburg Pioneer Museum from April 25–27.
The John W. Stormont Lecture Series, an ongoing series at the Museum of the Coastal Bend in Victoria.
Art of the American West: Selections from the AMST Permanent Collection, an exhibition on display at the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi now through April 21, 2019.
Let Me Be Myself: The Life Story of Anne Frank, an exhibition at the Dallas Holocaust Museum now through July 2019.
Joy and Suffering: The El Paso Museum of Art's Collection of Mexican Retablos, an exhibition made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas on display at the El Paso Museum of Art March 8 through September 1.
WWI America, an exhibition at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin from March 16, 2019 to August 11, 2019.
Cattle, Cowboys, & Culture: Kansas City to Amarillo, Making an Urban West, an exhibition at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon from February 23, 2019 to December 2019.