Events

Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America Through Galveston Island, a Humanities Texas traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Bullock Texas State History Museum, explores the Port of Galveston's role in the story of 19th and 20th century immigration to the United States and considers universal themes of immigration including leaving home, encountering danger, confronting discrimination, and navigating bureaucracy. For more information, contact Czech Center Museum Houston.

On Wednesdays, April 9–April 30, Humanities Texas will hold Texas Storytime at El Progreso Memorial Library. For more information, contact institutes@humanitiestexas.org.

From 3:30–4:30 p.m. on April 26, San Jacinto Museum will host Andrew J. Torget, historian of nineteenth-century North America at the University of North Texas, for his lecture "The Coming and Fighting of the Battle of San Jacinto." For more information, contact the San Jacinto Museum.

In the last decade, archeologists have made a number of fascinating new discoveries about the way Paleoindians lived and even how they arrived in the land we now call Texas. These first peoples passed on knowledge and traditions through the generations, eventually giving rise to many culturally distinct Tribes and Indigenous American communities. Some Indigenous Americans traditional stories say that their ancestors were always here. Archeologists, who study objects and evidence left behind from early cultures, believe people have lived here for at least 16,000 years. Both ways of understanding the past are important to the study of Paleoindian history. A Time Before Texas considers both current science and cultural tradition to explore what life was like for the first people to call early Texas home. A Time Before Texas is created by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and ciruculated in partnership with Humanities Texas. For more information contact the Lake Jackson Historical Museum.