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.
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 14–May 2, 2025
Exhibition
From April 14–May 2, the exhibition "Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn" will be on display at Ranger College. For more information, contact Ranger College Golemon Library.
April 15, 12:15–1:30 p.m.
Panel discussion
From 12:15–1:30 p.m. on April 15, San Antonio College will hold a panel and reading on Latino poetry with ire’ne lara silva, 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate; Eddie Vega, San Antonio Poet Laureate; and Saúl Hernández, a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. For more information, contact San Antonio College.
April 15, 6:00 p.m.
Public lecture
At 6:00 p.m. on April 15, Jacksonville College will host Shellie O'Neal for God Bless America: A WWII Radio Hour as part of the Manly Distinguished Lecture Series. For more information, contact Jacksonville College.
April 24, 2025
Teacher institute
"Teaching Contemporary Popular Literature at the Secondary Level" will take place in Dallas on April 24. Topics to be addressed include teaching dystopian literature, graphic novels, and young adult (YA) literature. Workshop faculty will be announced soon.
April 26, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Public lecture
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.
May 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 Eastland County Museum.