From January 20–October 24, the Rosenberg Railroad Museum will present the exhibition Railroads and American Sports. This exhibition covers many parts of the United States, but Texas receives particular attention through the stories of multi-sport athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias, boxer Jack Johnson, and Houston’s early 20th century No-Tsu-Oh festival. For more information, contact the Rosenberg Railroad Museum.
Events
January 20–October 27, 2024
Exhibition
March 30–
May 22, 2024
May 22, 2024
Exhibition
Melina Mara began photographing the thirteen women in the U.S. Senate in 2001, continuing as their number grew to fourteen in 2003. Changing the Face of Power: Women in the U.S. Senate, the exhibition based on her work, was created by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, and is presented in partnership with the Humanities Texas traveling exhibitions program. For more information, please contact Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum.
April–June 2024
Event
Throughout April, May, and June, the Bastrop County African American Cultural Center will hold their program Piecing Together African American History in Bastrop County. For more information, contact the Bastrop County African American Cultural Center.
April 15–May 30, 2024
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 Salado Museum and College Park.
April 25–27, 2024
Conference
From April 25–27, Arte Público Press will hold the XVII Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference at the University of Houston. Archivists, librarians, linguists, historians, critics, theorists and community members are invited to share examples of the legacy they are recovering, preserving and making available of Hispanic peoples—whether residents, immigrants or exiles—of the United States over the past centuries. For more information contact Arte Público Press.
May 1–June 30, 2024
Event
From May 1–June 30, Eula Hunt Beck Florence Public Library will hold their summer reading program. For more information, contact Eula Hunt Beck Florence Public Library.
May 1–May 31, 2024
Exhibition
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition provides a historical overview of U.S. Latino participation in World War II and features historical photographs from the U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project archives and contemporary photographs of men and women of the WWII generation by photojournalist Valentino Mauricio. It focuses on individual stories that reveal larger themes such as citizenship and civil rights and features excerpts from the more than five hundred oral history interviews that were part of the project. For more information, contact The Wallace Theater.
May 1, 2024
Public lecture
On May 1, the Houston Climate Justice Museum will hold a public lecture in conjunction with their new exhibition Creosote Stories: Seeding Planthroposcenes in Northeast Houston. For more information, contact the Houston Climate Justice Museum.
May 2, 2024, 6:30 p.m.
Film screening
At 6:30 p.m. on May 2, the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum will continue their family- and community-oriented film series with the film Till. The screening will be followed by a scholarly panel discussion. For more information, contact the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum.
May 9, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Event
At 7:00 p.m., the North Texas Archeological Society (NTAS) will hold their monthly meeting. In these monthly meetings, attendees discuss NTAS Announcements, which include upcoming volunteer opportunities, upcoming NTAS events, and upcoming Texas Archeology Society (TAS) events. For more information contact the North Texas Archeological Society.