From July 13, 2024–July 5, 2025, The Grace Museum will show the exhibition Full Steam Ahead: The Texas and Pacific Railway. The exhibition highlights the history of the Texas and Pacific Railway in Abilene through several artifacts from The Grace Museum’s permanent collection. For more information, contact The Grace Museum.
Events
July 13, 2024–July 5, 2025
Exhibition
February 6–April 28, 2025
Exhibition
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.
April 1–29, 2025
Exhibition
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. This Humanities Sam Houston: Texas Icon traces the life and career of Houston from his boyhood in Virginia and Tennessee through his retirement and eventual passing in Huntsville, Texas.
April 8, 2025
Teacher institute
"Teaching Twentieth-Century Texas History" will take place in Austin on April 8. Topics to be addressed include women's suffrage in Texas, the Chicano Movement, African American civil rights, and the emergence of a two-party Texas. Workshop faculty includes Jessica Brannon-Wranosky (Texas A&M University-Commerce), Sean Cunningham (Texas Tech University), Michael L. Gillette (former executive director of Humanities Texas), and Monica Muñoz Martinez (The University of Texas at Austin).
April 8, 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Event
From 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. on April 8, the Texas Tribune will hold Telling the Story of Religion in Texas Through Journalism at Southern Methodist University. Texas journalists, public scholars, and community leaders will convene to explore how religion shapes the state and how journalism captures its evolving role. For more information, contact the Texas Tribune.
Wednesdays, April 9–April 30, 2025
Storytelling
On Wednesdays, April 9–April 30, Humanities Texas will hold Texas Storytime at El Progreso Memorial Library. For more information, contact institutes@humanitiestexas.org.
April 10, 6:30 p.m.
Public lecture
At 6:30 p.m. on April 10, the McFaddin-Ward House will host a lecture with former FBI Special Agent and art crime expert Robert Wittman. For more information, contact the McFaddin-Ward House.
April 10, 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Film screening
At 6:00 p.m. on April 10, El Paso Community College will hold a screening of the film The Repo Man. For more information, contact El Paso Community College.
April 10, 2025, 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.
April 12, 5:45 p.m.
Film screening
At 5:45 p.m. on April 12, Austin Film Society will show the film Pooja, Sir as part of the Indie Meme Film Festival. For more information, contact Indie Meme Film Festival.