Capturing the sweeping visual imagery of the original miniseries, the Lonesome Dove...
An Evening with Annette Gordon-Reed
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed will discuss her new book, On Juneteenth, in which she examines the roots of Juneteenth and its continuing importance to the fight for racial equity.
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06/17/2021
Join us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed! Gordon-Reed will discuss her new book, On Juneteenth, in which she examines the Texas roots of Juneteenth and its continuing importance to the fight for racial equity.
05/31/2021
We are pleased to announce the recipients of our 2021 Outstanding Teaching Awards!
05/15/2021
This summer, Humanities Texas will hold free online summer institutes for Texas teachers covering central topics in U.S. history, Texas history, and English language arts. Register now!
01/01/2021
Listen to Texas Originals, a radio series profiling individuals who have had a profound influence on Texas history and culture.
Current Events
May 26–September 28, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition provides a historical overview of U.S. Latino...
June 7–August 7, 2021
Created to celebrate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, this ...
June 8–July 20, 2021
The annexation of Texas as the twenty-eighth member of the United States of America had a...
June 14–July 14, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition is both a cartoon history of Texas politics and...
June 29–July 27, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling...
June 30–August 11, 2021
In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros...
July 8–August 8, 2021
In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros...
August 1–31, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition surveys the vitality and breadth of creative...
August 8–October 15, 2021
Capturing the sweeping visual imagery of the original miniseries, the Lonesome Dove...
August 31–September 28, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling...
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 13–October 22, 2021
Featuring thirty-eight photographs paired with excerpts from his dynamic speeches,...
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 18–November 15, 2021
On the frozen morning of March 1, 1836, forty-four men shivered in an unfinished house in...
Humanities around Texas
Teatro De Artes De Juan Seguin will host their annual free Summer Agriculture, Culinary, and Arts Camp with both online and in-person activities from June 14–18, 2021.
On June 3, July 15, and August 5, the Bullock Texas State History Museum will host three free virtual public lectures on the history of Jim Crow in Texas in conjunction with their summer exhibition Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow.
The Texas Historical Commission Museum Services Program regularly hosts webinars and workshops. They also maintain a list of over a dozen free webinars related to museums and the current pandemic being held by other organizations.