In correlation with the exhibit Speaking Up! Confronting Hate Speech, join us for a special presentation with Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, co-author of A Black Women’s History of the United States. Dr. Daina Ramey Berry is Chair of the History Department and the Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History at the University of Texas […]
All event times are listed in Central Time. In correlation with the exhibition Blacklist: Hollywood Red Scare, join us for a presentation by Dr. Maryann Erigha on her book, The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry, which examines practices of racial inequality in the Hollywood film industry through the lens of film directing. Maryann […]
In correlation with the exhibit Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare, join us for a special screening of the film "Scandalize My Name." Synopsis: "Scandalize My Name" provides a searing examination of how “Red Scare” politics were used to hinder America’s civil rights movement. This powerful film documents the first-hand experiences of African American performers faced with “blacklists,” […]
In correlation with the exhibition Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare, join us for a special presentation by historian and author Dr. John S. Huntington. John S. Huntington is a professor of history at Houston Community College in Houston, Texas. A native of Georgetown, Texas, he worked in K-12 education before joining the college ranks. Dr. […]
In correlation with the exhibit Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare, join us for a special presentation by historian Dr. David Johnson on his book, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent American history. But while […]
This event is a rebroadcast of the November 2021 presentation by the Campaign for Uyghurs held at Holocaust Museum Houston The Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim group, have been targeted by the Chinese government for decades. In recent years, the government has escalated a campaign of persecution and mass detention in a sprawling system of forced […]
All times are shown in Central Time. Dan Grunfeld, once a basketball standout himself at Stanford University, shares the remarkable story of his family, a delicately interwoven narrative that doesn't lack in heartbreak yet remains as deeply nourishing as his grandmother's Hungarian cooking. The true improbability of the saga lies in the discovery of a […]
Rebecca Erbelding is the author of Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe, which won the JDC-Herbert Katzki National Jewish Book Award in 2018. She holds […]
Two girls who fought with the partisans in Croatia; a teenager who survived the Holocaust because she was sentenced to ten years’ hard labor in the Gulag—for joining a youth […]
In 1979, Helen Epstein published Children of the Holocaust, one of the first books to examine the intergenerational transmission of trauma from Holocaust survivors to their children. In the four decades […]