Events

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.

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.

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.

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 Lake Jackson Historical Museum.