Capturing the sweeping visual imagery of the original miniseries, the Lonesome Dove...
Winter Storm Recovery Grants
Humanities Texas invites Texas cultural and educational institutions that suffered losses or damages or incurred costs as a result of the February 2021 winter storm to apply immediately for fast-track Recovery Grants
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04/30/2021
Deadline to apply for Winter Storm Recovery Grants.
01/01/2021
This spring, Humanities Texas will hold a number of free webinar series 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
March 8–May 7, 2021
People’s Lives: A Celebration of the Human Spirit takes us down unfamiliar paths...
March 29–May 29, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition is both a cartoon history of Texas politics and...
April 27–June 5, 2021
Drawn from files of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service archives at Texas A&M...
April 30—May 28, 2021
In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros...
May 1–31, 2021
Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries presents three thousand years of Mexican...
May 3–31, 2021
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition surveys the vitality and breadth of creative...
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...
July 8—August 8, 2021
In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros...
July 10—August 21, 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
On April 13, 2021, join the LBJ Presidential Library, Humanities Texas, and The White House Historical Association for an evening with Karen Tumulty, speaking on the release of her new book The Triumph of Nancy Reagan.
Texas organizations share news of their upcoming remote programming, including online exhibitions and gallery tours, web-based lectures and discussions, documentaries, and educational resources.
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.