Humanities Texas

In the days leading up to our annual Holiday Book Fair, we're highlighting all 19 participating authors and their books! Day 4: Sarah Bird In Juneteenth Rodeo, Bird's photographs immerse viewers in a day at the rodeo, from the moment the pit master fired up his smoker, through the death-defying rides, to the last celebratory dance at a nearby honky-tonk. Essays by Bird and sports historian Demetrius Pearson highlight the crucial role of Black Americans in the Western U.S. and convey how modern rodeo riders continue the traditions of a more than two-hundred-year lineage of Black cowboys. Join us at Humanities Texas's Holiday Book Fair Saturday, December 7, to meet Sarah! bit.ly/htxhbf24

In the days leading up to our annual Holiday Book Fair, we're highlighting all 19 participating authors and their books! Day 3: Jenny Browne and ire'ne lara silva Texas, Being: A State of Poems collects more than forty-five poems from a beautiful and brutal state. Some are about the music of their languages. Some speak to the dead, some to the sun, and others to omissions of history. In the eaters of flowers, 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate ire'ne lara silva writes about the loss of her brother, her adopted son. In her unique canto style, silva sings the stunned, broken months following his death, navigating grief, loss, loneliness, and the remembrance of joy, as she begins to reassemble her life. Join us at Humanities Texas's Holiday Book Fair Saturday, December 7, to meet these authors! bit.ly/htxhbf24

Humanities Texas recently launched two new rounds of Texas Storytime, our bilingual family reading program, at El Progreso Memorial Library in Uvalde and at Oak Springs Elementary School in Austin. Texas Storytime supports school readiness and promotes early childhood literacy. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gnsY5-t5

In the days leading up to our annual Holiday Book Fair, we're highlighting all 19 participating authors and their books! Day 2: Chad S. Conine and Cary Clack In Tommy Bowman: Answering the Call, Chad Conine, a Waco sportswriter, tells the story of Tommy Bowman's impact on not only Baylor basketball, but Baylor as a whole. More Finish Lines to Cross is a collection of Cary Clack's best short- and long-form columns since his return to the San Antonio Express-News in 2019. It includes more than eighty pieces about the issues of the day, from Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and the war in Ukraine to the impact of COVID, the death of George Floyd, and the mass shooting of schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas. Join us at Humanities Texas's Holiday Book Fair Saturday, December 7, to meet Chad and Cary! bit.ly/htxhbf24

Curious, open-minded, and unafraid of failure, Robert Rauschenberg was one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Learn more on Season 3 of TEXAS ORIGINALS! https://lnkd.in/gjsNjniG

"A Time Before Texas" is now on display at Coleman Public Library until December 31! This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition, circulated in partnership with the Texas Department of Transportation, considers both current science and cultural tradition to explore what life was like for the first people to call early Texas home. #htxexhibits Learn more about our traveling exhibitions program at https://lnkd.in/gErnbERs!

Meet 19 Texas authors, buy their latest books, and enjoy holiday treats at the annual Humanities Texas HOLIDAY BOOK FAIR! SAT, DEC 7, from 10A–1P at the historic Byrne-Reed House. Proceeds benefit Texas libraries. https://bit.ly/htxhbf24 #htxbookfair

Happy Native American Heritage Month! From 5–6:15 p.m. CT on November 12 and 19, Humanities Texas will hold two FREE webinars on teaching Native American Literature for Texas teachers. Learn more and apply now: https://t.co/GnrAAHjLZ1 #htxedu

Oakwood Cemetery reached new milestones—made possible in part with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities—in their work to document the lives and contributions of Austin’s historically segregated communities of color through the “Oakwood Legacy Project." Learn more at https://lnkd.in/d2GFZvij.

When Heman Sweatt, a Black postal employee, applied to The University of Texas School of Law in 1946, officials rejected him because of his race. But Sweatt was not deterred. The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Sweatt v. Painter opened UT’s law school to African Americans and established an important precedent for Brown v. Board of Education. Learn more and listen to season 3 of #TxOriginals now: https://lnkd.in/gtRBiqek