State Fair is a visual distillation of Arthur Grace's photographic odyssey through...
Holiday Book Fair
Meet twenty-seven tremendous Texas authors, buy their books, and enjoy tasty holiday treats at the upcoming Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair at the historic Byrne-Reed House in Austin!
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12/08/18
Join us for the 10th annual Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair!
12/07/18
Nominate an inspiring teacher for a 2019 Outstanding Teaching Award.
12/03/18
Apply now for our ELA workshops in Lufkin and Dallas.
12/01/18
Listen to Texas Originals, a radio series profiling individuals who have had a profound influence on Texas history and culture.
Current Events
December 3, 2018–
January 11, 2019
January 11, 2019
On the morning of June 7, 1998, the body of James Byrd Jr. was discovered in front of an...
January 2–31, 2019
Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America Through Galveston Island, a new Humanities...
February 1–
March 8, 2019
March 8, 2019
Featuring photographs, facsimiles of landmark documents, and quotations by Dr. King and...
February 1 – March 1, 2019
The availability of books and the spread of literacy profoundly influenced the discovery of...
April 3–30, 2019
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition surveys the vitality and breadth of creative...
May 14 – August 6, 2019
Melina Mara began photographing the thirteen women in the U.S. Senate in 2001, continuing...
September 1 – October 1, 2019
William Shakespeare is the quintessential subject for a humanities program. Born into a...
November 1, 2019–
January 10, 2020
January 10, 2020
Curated by a native of Sudan, this Humanities Texas...
Humanities around Texas
The John W. Stormont Lecture Series, an ongoing series at the Museum of the Coastal Bend in Victoria.
Comanche Motion: The Art of Eric Tippeconnic, an exhibition at the Bullock Texas State History Museum from April 14 to January 1, 2019.
Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty, an exhibition on display at the African American Museum of Dallas now through January 21, 2019.
Dallas in the Time of MLK, an exhibition on display at the Dallas Historical Society through January 27, 2019.
Rodeo! The Exhibition is on display at the Bullock Texas State History Museum through January 27, 2019.
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.
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.
WWI America, an exhibition at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin from March 16, 2019 to August 11, 2019.