Workshop participants gather at the Witte Museum in San Antonio. The Witte Museum has generously hosted several Humanities Texas teacher workshops.

Nancy Beck Young, professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Houston, provides an overview of Texas politics in the 1940s and 1950s.

Nancy Beck Young and workshop participants examine political cartoons, ads, and campaign literature as they relate to Texas politics in the 1940s and 1950s.

Gabriela Gonzalez, associate professor of history at The University of Texas at San Antonio, delivers a lecture on Latinos and Latinas in modern Texas.

Gabriela Gonzalez leads a primary source seminar using documents related to the founding of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the development of the Latin American civil rights movement.

A workshop participant asks Gabriela Gonzalez a question during her seminar on Latinos and Latinas in modern Texas.

Michael L. Gillette, executive director of Humanities Texas, delivers a lecture on the civil rights movement in Texas and how Texas civil rights cases such as Sweatt v. Painter paved the way for future national civil rights successes such as Brown v. Board of Education.

Michael L. Gillette leads a primary source seminar using documents from the NAACP in Texas.

Joseph A. Pratt, NEH-Cullen Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston, delivers a lecture on the Texas oil and gas industry in the twentieth century, covering developments from Spindletop to the introduction of shale oil extraction.

A workshop participant asks a question following a lecture.

Joseph A. Pratt leads a seminar on the history and influence of the Texas oil and gas industry throughout the twentieth century, focusing on an article about George Mitchell, an entrepreneur who was important in the development of shale production.

Chase Untermeyer, Humanities Texas board member and former U.S. ambassador to Qatar, delivers a lecture on political parties in Texas during the twentieth century.

Chase Untermeyer discusses documents showing changes in voting patterns by county during a primary source seminar on the rise of two-party Texas.