Events

June 24–27, 2025
Teacher institute

"Teaching Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature" will take place at the University of Houston from June 24–27, 2025. Topics to be addressed include modernism; the Harlem Renaissance; mid-century confessional poetry; literature of the civil rights movement; and commonly taught texts such as The Great Gatsby, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Crucible, The Bluest Eye, and The House on Mango Street.

Greg Barnhisel (Duquesne University) will serve as the faculty director for the institute. Presenters include Amanda Golden (New York Institute of Technology), Jennifer Freeman Marshall (Purdue University), Jonna Perrillo (The University of Texas at El Paso), Mona Choucair and Ryan Sharp of Baylor University, and Patricia M. García and David Kornhaber of The University of Texas at Austin.

University of Houston
4302 University Drive
Houston, TX 77004
June 28, 2025
Event

On June 28, the George Washington Carver Museum will host the Austin African American Book Festival. For more information, contact the African American Book Festival.

George Washington Carver Museum
1165 Angelina Street
Austin, TX 78702
June 28, 2025
Event

On June 28, Log Cabin Village will hold a hands-one adobe workshop for kids aged 10–12 and their adults. Attendees will learn about the importance of adobe to Texas ancestors while making their own miniature adobe structure to take home. For more information, contact Log Cabin Village.

Log Cabin Village
2100 Log Cabin Village Lane
Fort Worth, TX 76109
October 6-November 1, 2025
Exhibition

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 Falls on the Colorado Museum.

Falls on the Colorado Museum
2001 Broadway
Marble Falls, TX 78654
December 1 - 29, 2025
Exhibition

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 Texas Botanical Gardens & Native American Interpretive Center.

Texas Botanical Garden & Native American Interpretive Center
1219 Fisher Street
Goldthwaite, TX 76844
January 10 - March 8, 2026
Exhibition

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 Irving Archives and Museum.

Irving Archives and Museum
801 W Irving Blvd
Irving, TX 75060
March 14 - June 13, 2026
Exhibition

This exhibition presents photographs by renowned documentary photographer Russell Lee and draws from the magnificent archive that he donated to the Briscoe Center for American History just prior to his death in 1986. This exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the remarkable images he produced in 1935 and 1936 when he first took up a camera and goes on to highlight the vast body of important work that Lee produced from 1947 through 1977. The exhibition was created by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, and is presented in partnership with the Humanities Texas traveling exhibitions program. For more information contact the Irving Arts Center.

Irving Arts Museum
3333 N MacArthur Blvd
Irving, TX 75062
March 20 - June 12, 2026
Exhibition

In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros still worked cattle in traditional ways. Wittliff photographed the vaqueros as they went about daily chores that had changed little since the first Mexican cowherders learned to work cattle from a horse's back. Wittliff captured a way of life that now exists only in memory and in the photographs included in this exhibition. This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition features photographs with 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. For more information, contact the Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum.

Temple Railroad & Heritage Museum
315 W Avenue B
Temple, TX 76501
March 22-April 17, 2026
Exhibition

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 Ranger College Library.

Ranger College Library
1100 College Circle
Ranger, TX 76470

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