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Modern Times Lecture Series

Season 20
America 250: Texas in the Nation’s Service

 

 
 
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 Upcoming Modern Times Lectures

 

This year marks the 20th season of Modern Times as well as the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. In recognition of the importance of these milestones, the Neill-Cochran House Museum is pausing our decade-based progression through time to look at American history and the roles Texas and Texans have played on the national stage.

We will explore the crucial contributions of Bernardo de Galvez and Spain to the American Patriots’ cause during the Revolution; revisit Galveston on June 19, 1865 and chart the path of Juneteenth across the decades; see the Suffrage movement through the eyes of the Texas women who worked tirelessly for the vote; follow Doris Miller as he turned guns on Japanese bombers at Pearl Harbor; look upward toward the moon with Houston-based NASA experts; and see the world through the eyes of Texas modernist artists. It will be an epic year as befits a state as big and historically significant as Texas and an anniversary that lives up to the high falutin term semiquincentennial.

 
 

COMING UP NEXT:


 

Speaker lineup:

Dr. Katie Robinson Edwards - Texas Modernism, January 18, 2026

Dr. Jacqueline Smith-Francis - Origins of Juneteenth, February 12, 2026

Dr. Stephen Sloan - Doris Miller, March 29, 2026

Karen Kincaid Brady - NASA and Texas, Date TBD

Granaderos y Damas de Galvez - Galvez and the American Patriots, Date TBD

Dr. Sara Sonner - Texas and Women’s Suffrage, Date TBD

** registration coming soon!


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