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Humanities Texas is pleased to announce that we recently added several new wall-hanging exhibitions to our traveling inventory. With support from the Summerlee Foundation and the Texas Commission on the Arts, we have reproduced four of our most popular offerings in this affordable, lightweight format, which is adapted from our freestanding panel displays. These new versions will significantly increase the availability of these in-demand titles.
Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas
Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas traces the twenty-seven-year campaign for woman suffrage in Texas, with panel topics covering the movement's national origins, early Texas leaders, anti-suffrage sentiment, efforts to amend the Texas Constitution, primary suffrage, and, finally, the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Juneteenth
On June 19, 1865, General Orders No. 3 was issued in Galveston, announcing to the people of Texas that, in accordance with the Emancipation Proclamation, “all slaves are free.” This day—which has since become known as Juneteenth—is now celebrated nationwide as the day that marked freedom for all Black Americans. Juneteenth presents engaging text, accompanied by dynamic works of art, photographs, and historical documents, to chronicle this pivotal period in U.S. history.
Sam Houston: Texas Icon
Sam Houston remains a larger-than-life figure in Texas and American history with a career that spanned the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas, annexation and early statehood, and the state's secession from the Union in 1861. Sam Houston: Texas Icon traces Houston's life and career from his boyhood in Virginia and Tennessee through his retirement and eventual passing in Huntsville, Texas.
Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy
In the early 1970s, photographer Bill Wittliff was given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—to document a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros still worked cattle in traditional ways. Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy features Wittliff’s photographs alongside bilingual narrative text that reveal the muscle, sweat, and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle.
Wall-hanging versions of these exhibitions are available to reserve now through the Humanities Texas traveling exhibitions program. To learn more about reserving them for your venue, please contact our exhibitions coordinator at exhibitions@humanitiestexas.org.