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On April 17, 2015, Humanities Texas held a one-day workshop in San Antonio covering Texas history in the twentieth century.

Topics addressed included Texas politics in the 1940s and 1950s, the civil rights movement in Texas, Latinos and Latinas in modern Texas, boom and bust in Texas industry, and the emergence of two-party Texas. Teachers received books and other instructional materials and were trained in the examination and interpretation of primary sources.

Workshop faculty included Nancy Beck Young and Joseph A. Pratt of the University of Houston, Michael L. Gillette (Humanities Texas), Gabriela Gonzalez (The University of Texas at San Antonio), and Chase Untermeyer (former U.S. ambassador to Qatar).

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"Change in Twentieth-Century Texas" Workshop Photos : Slideshow
  1. Workshop participants gather at the Witte Museum in San Antonio. The Witte Museum has generously hosted several Humanities Texas teacher workshops.
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  1. Thumbnail of: Workshop participants gather at the Witte Museum in San Antonio. The Witte Museum has generously hosted several Humanities Texas teacher workshops.
  2. Thumbnail of: 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.
  3. Thumbnail of: Nancy Beck Young and workshop participants examine political cartoons, ads, and campaign literature as they relate to Texas politics in the 1940s and 1950s.
  4. Thumbnail of: Gabriela Gonzalez, associate professor of history at The University of Texas at San Antonio, delivers a lecture on Latinos and Latinas in modern Texas.
  5. Thumbnail of: 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.
  6. Thumbnail of: A workshop participant asks Gabriela Gonzalez a question during her seminar on Latinos and Latinas in modern Texas.
Workshop participants gather at the Witte Museum in San Antonio. The Witte Museum has generously hosted several Humanities Texas teacher workshops.
"Change in Twentieth-Century Texas" Workshop Photos : Thumbnails
  1. Thumbnail of: Workshop participants gather at the Witte Museum in San Antonio. The Witte Museum has generously hosted several Humanities Texas teacher workshops.
  2. Thumbnail of: 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.
  3. Thumbnail of: Nancy Beck Young and workshop participants examine political cartoons, ads, and campaign literature as they relate to Texas politics in the 1940s and 1950s.
  4. Thumbnail of: Gabriela Gonzalez, associate professor of history at The University of Texas at San Antonio, delivers a lecture on Latinos and Latinas in modern Texas.
  5. Thumbnail of: 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.
  6. Thumbnail of: A workshop participant asks Gabriela Gonzalez a question during her seminar on Latinos and Latinas in modern Texas.
  7. Thumbnail of: 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 <em>Sweatt v. Painter</em> paved the way for future national civil rights successes such as <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em>.
  8. Thumbnail of: Michael L. Gillette leads a primary source seminar using documents from the NAACP in Texas.
  9. Thumbnail of: 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.
  10. Thumbnail of: A workshop participant asks a question following a lecture.
  11. Thumbnail of: 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.
  12. Thumbnail of: 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.
  13. Thumbnail of: Chase Untermeyer discusses documents showing changes in voting patterns by county during a primary source seminar on the rise of two-party Texas.
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