Teachers attend the Humanities Texas institute "Founding a New Nation," held at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin.

LBJ Foundation Chairman Larry Temple introduces the evening’s keynote speaker at the "Founding a New Nation" institute in Austin.

Jack N. Rakove, William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science and (by courtesy) law at Stanford University, delivers the keynote address on the Founders and the American Revolution at the "Founding a New Nation" institute in Austin.

Teachers, scholars, and Humanities Texas staff dine together at the opening reception for the institute "Founding a New Nation" in Austin.

Jesús F. de la Teja, Regents’ Professor of History, Jerome H. and Catherine E. Supple Professor of Southwest Studies, and director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University, lectures on Spain and the American Revolution at the Austin institute.

James Kirby Martin, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of History at the University of Houston, presents on George Washington's military leadership at the Austin institute.

Woody Holton, Bonnie and Peter McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, analyzes documents related to Native Americans and African Americans during the American Revolution at the Austin institute.

Jack N. Rakove leads a discussion on documents relating to James Madison's role in the creation of the Constitution at the Austin institute.

David M. Oshinsky, professor of history at New York University and director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU Medical School, speaks to teachers about medicine in the early American Republic at the Austin institute.

During an afternoon primary source seminar, Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History Emerita at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, leads teachers in a discussion of documents relating to the Bill of Rights at the Austin institute.

Denver Brunsman, associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in the history department at George Washington University, leads a primary source seminar analyzing George Washington's role in defining the presidency at the Austin institute.

Alan Tully, Eugene C. Barker Centennial Professor of American History at The University of Texas at Austin, answers questions about the rise of political parties at the Austin institute.

Zara Anishanslin, assistant professor of history and art history at the University of Delaware, lectures on the women of the revolutionary period at the Austin institute.

Joseph F. Kobylka, associate professor of history at Southern Methodist University, and a group of teachers examine documents relating to the establishment of the federal judiciary at the Austin institute.

Albert S. Broussard, professor of history at Texas A&M University, leads a primary source seminar focused on African Americans in the revolutionary period and early republic at the Austin institute.

Teachers attend the "Writing Texas" institute at Texas State University in San Marcos.

John Phillip Santos, an author, journalist, and University Distinguished Scholar in Mestizo Cultural Studies at The University of Texas at San Antonio, delivers the keynote address at the San Marcos institute.

Coleman Hutchison, associate professor and associate chair of English at The University of Texas at Austin, discusses Katherine Anne Porter’s story “The Grave” with teachers at the San Marcos institute.

Norma E. Cantú, the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University, lectures on the literature of the Texas-Mexico borderlands at the San Marcos institute.

At the San Marcos institute, Adriane Bezusko, the course coordinator for Introduction to Literature at The University of Texas at Austin, leads a seminar on teaching close reading skills to middle and high school students.

Nan Cuba, author, professor, and writer-in-residence at Our Lady of the Lake University, delivers a lecture on Texas fiction at the San Marcos institute.

At the San Marcos institute, Emmy Pérez, poet and associate professor of creative writing at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, offers detailed strategies for generating student interest in poetry.

Cary Clack, former columnist for The San Antonio Express-News, leads a seminar on journalism with teachers at the San Marcos institute.

Author Stephen Harrigan (left) and Humanities Texas Director of Grants and Education Eric Lupfer (center) listen to author Elizabeth Crook (right) during a discussion on the craft of writing at the San Marcos institute.

Jason Mellard, assistant director of the Center for Texas Music History and a lecturer in the Department of History at Texas State University, gives a presentation at the San Marcos institute on using Texas music in the English classroom.

Film scholar Alison Macor lectures on how Texas has been portrayed in television and film at the San Marcos institute.

John Morán González, director of the Center for Mexican American Studies and associate professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin, lectures on the future of Texas writing at the San Marcos institute.

Teachers attend the Humanities Texas institute "The Cold War" at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

Jeremi Suri, professor in the Department of History and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, gives the keynote address "Explaining the Cold War" at the Lubbock institute.

David M. Oshinsky leads teachers in a primary source seminar focusing on McCarthyism and the Red Scare.

Mark Atwood Lawrence, associate professor of history at The University of Texas at Austin and director of graduate studies for the William J. Clements Center for National Security, discusses documents relating to the Korean War during an afternoon seminar at the Lubbock institute.

Mary Ann Heiss, associate professor of history and associate chair of the Department of History at Kent State University, leads teachers in a primary source seminar on the Cold War and the Third World during the Lubbock institute.

At the Lubbock institute, Jeremi Suri and a group teachers discuss the origins of the Cold War.

Terry H. Anderson, professor of history and Cornerstone Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University, discusses the Vietnam War on the domestic front with a group of teachers during the Lubbock institute.

Ron Milam, associate professor of military history at Texas Tech University, lectures on the Vietnam War at the Lubbock institute.

Kenneth A. Osgood, professor of history and director of the McBride Honors Program at Colorado School of Mines, examines documents relating to Cold War ideology and propaganda with a group of teachers at the Lubbock institute.

From l to r: Texas Tech Chancellor Robert L. Duncan and Humanities Texas Executive Director Michael Gillette at a reception hosted at the Chancellor’s home.

From l to r: Teacher Gregory Reid, Ron Milam, and Texas Tech President Lawrence Schovanec at the reception hosted by Chancellor Duncan.

From l to r: Humanities Texas board members Ellen Ramsey and Becky McKinley at the reception hosted by Chancellor Duncan.

Kelly J. Shannon, assistant professor of history at Florida Atlantic University, lectures on the Cold War and the Middle East at the Lubbock institute.

Sean P. Cunningham, associate professor and chair of the Department of History at Texas Tech University, analyzes documents relating to the Cold War and the rise of the New Right with teachers at the Lubbock institute.

Jeffrey A. Engel, associate professor of history and director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, discusses Ronald Reagan and the end of the Cold War during a primary source seminar at the Lubbock institute.

Justin Hart, associate professor of history and associate chair of the Department of History at Texas Tech University, offers strategies for teaching the Cold War through film at the Lubbock institute.

Teachers attend the Humanities Texas institute "The Two World Wars" at Texas A&M University in College Station.

R. J. Q. Adams, University Distinguished Professor and Patricia and Bookman Peters Professor of History at Texas A&M University, gives the keynote lecture on the causes of World War I at the College Station institute.

Jason C. Parker, associate professor of history at Texas A&M University, leads teachers in a discussion of U.S. president Woodrow Wilson's decision to enter World War I during a primary source seminar at the College Station institute.

Brian McAllister Linn, Ralph R. Thomas Professor in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University, describes the experiences of American soldiers in World War I at the College Station institute.

Adam R. Seipp, professor of history at Texas A&M University, and a group of teachers analyze documents relating to Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, the Treaty of Versailles, and isolationism at the College Station institute.

During a primary source seminar at the College Station institute, Marian Eide, associate professor of English and director of women's and gender studies at Texas A&M University, offers teachers strategies for using the literature of World War I in their classes.

Arnold Krammer, professor emeritus of history at Texas A&M University, and a group of teachers examine documents relating to the Holocaust at the College Station institute.

At the College Station institute, Stefanie Harris, associate professor of German and film studies in the Department of International Studies at Texas A&M University, leads teachers in a discussion of post-war representations of the Holocaust.

At the College Station institute, Elizabeth Cobbs, Melbern Glasscock Chair in American History at Texas A&M University, and a group of teachers consider the role of women during World War I and World War II.

H. W. Brands, Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at The University of Texas at Austin, lectures on the wartime leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman at the College Station institute.

Michael Bess, Chancellor's Professor of History, professor of European studies, and associate chair of the Department of History at Vanderbilt University, leads a primary source seminar at the College Station institute analyzing documents relating to the atomic bomb.

Terry H. Anderson discusses the legacy of World War II with teachers at the College Station institute.

At the College Station institute, Charles Flanagan, director of educational programs at the Center for Legislative Archives at the National Archives, shows teachers how to use drawings by famed political cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman to teach world affairs.

Teachers attend the Humanities Texas institute "Three Centuries of Texas History" at the University of North Texas in Denton.

Juliana Barr, associate professor of history at Duke University, gives the keynote lecture on Native Americans in Texas at the Denton institute.

Jesús F. de la Teja analyzes documents relating to Spanish Texas and the Mexican War of Independence with a group of teachers during the Denton institute.

Carolina Castillo Crimm, professor emerita of history at Sam Houston State University, leads a primary source seminar on Mexican Texas at the Denton institute.

Richard B. McCaslin, Texas State Historical Association Professor of Texas History at the University of North Texas, discusses documents relating to the Texas Revolution with teachers at the Denton institute.

Andrew J. Torget, associate professor of history and director of the Digital History Lab at the University of North Texas, lectures on the Republic of Texas at the Denton institute.

Randolph B. Campbell, Chief Historian of the Texas State Historical Association and Regents' Professor of History at the University of North Texas, lectures on slavery in Texas and the state's secession from the Union at the Denton institute.

Robert Wooster, Regent's Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, lectures on the Civil War in Texas at the Denton institute.

At the Denton institute, Alwyn Barr, professor emeritus of history at Texas Tech University, answers questions about Reconstruction.

Nancy Baker, interim associate vice provost and associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University, leads teachers in an examination of primary documents relating to women's suffrage in Texas at the Denton institute.

Stacy Fuller, former director of education and library services at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, offers strategies for introducing students to nineteenth-century Texas at the Denton institute.

At the Denton institute, Debbie Liles, lecturer and undergraduate advisor at the University of North Texas, addresses the role of cattle, railroads, and frontier defenses in nineteenth-century Texas history.

Joseph A. Pratt, emeritus NEH-Cullen Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston, leads a primary source seminar on the Depression and World War II in Texas at the Denton institute.

Max Krochmal, associate professor of history and director of comparative race and ethnic studies at Texas Christian University, lectures on the civil rights movement at the Denton institute.

Sean P. Cunningham leads teachers in an examination of documents relating to post-1945 Texas politics at the Denton institute.

Teachers attend the "Writing Texas" institute at the University of Houston.

Nicolás Kanellos, Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Literature at the University of Houston and founding publisher of Arte Público Press, gives the keynote lecture on Hispanic writing in Texas and the United States at the Houston institute.

Steven L. Davis, curator of the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University and president of the Texas Institute of Letters, discusses Texas writing in the context of the literature of the American West at the Houston institute.

Javier Rodríguez, associate professor of English at the University of North Texas, leads a seminar on the literature of the Texas-Mexico borderlands at the Houston institute.

Elizabeth Bradford Frye, Humanities Texas staff member, views an exhibition prepared by the University of Houston Special Collections relating to Texas literature.

Journalist and author Jan Jarboe Russell leads a seminar on research and journalism with teachers at the Houston institute.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, poet, author, and Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Houston, lectures on autobiography and memoir at the Houston institute.

Roger Wood, author and professor of English at Houston Community College, leads a seminar on incorporating Texas music in the English classroom at the Houston institute.

At the Houston institute, Don Graham, J. Frank Dobie Regents' Professor of American and English Literature at The University of Texas at Austin, leads a seminar on the portrayal of Texas in television and film.

Ron Tyler, former director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, lectures on Texas in photography and art at the Houston institute.

Maria C. González, associate professor of English at the University of Houston, lectures on the future of Texas writing at the Houston institute.