June 10, 2025
Members of the Dallas Historical Society Director’s Inner Circle are invited to attend the next chapter in our Author’s Table Dinner Series. In June, we are bringing economist and former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm to our table. Gramm will be discussing his book: The Power of Economic Freedom: Debunking the Seven Great Myths of American Capitalism.
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Dallas Historical Society’s Directors Inner Circle
2025 Texas History Professional Development Conference
Join the Dallas Historical Society us for this free, two-day Professional Development Conference, presented in partnership with the Harry W. Bass Jr. Foundation. Learn from leading Texas historians and exemplary classroom instructors. Improve your content knowledge and sharpen your teaching skills at the beautiful and historic Hall of State. Attendees will earn 12 CPE Credits. Questions? if you have any questions, please CLICK HERE to contact our Director of Education.
Breakfast & lunch will be provided both days. Registrants will receive gift bags and be eligible for door prizes
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$20 Registration fee
2025 Texas History Professional Development Conference
Join the Dallas Historical Society us for this free, two-day Professional Development Conference, presented in partnership with the Harry W. Bass Jr. Foundation. Learn from leading Texas historians and exemplary classroom instructors. Improve your content knowledge and sharpen your teaching skills at the beautiful and historic Hall of State. Attendees will earn 12 CPE Credits. Questions? if you have any questions, please CLICK HERE to contact our Director of Education.
Breakfast & lunch will be provided both days. Registrants will receive gift bags and be eligible for door prizes
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$20 Registration fee
Pour Yourself into History: Juneteenth
Share cocktails with Dr. Marvin Dulaney, Levi Davis & civil rights icon Rev. Peter Johnson as they recount powerful stories that have shaped the historic holiday.
The Dallas Historical Society will be unveiling our new Texas History Lens interactive exhibit. The History Lens premieres with the program: Focus On Juneteenth — A Celebration of Freedom. Interact with the stories of those who impacted history and tell your own story of what Juneteenth means to you.
June 19, 2025 | 6:30 PM
Juneteenth: A Dialogue on Change and Community
A Panel Discussion moderated by Levi Davis
Join us for an inspiring and thought-provoking panel featuring civil rights icon Rev. Peter Johnson, renowned historian and scholar Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney, and trailblazing Dallas leader Levi Davis, the city’s first African American Assistant City Manager. Through personal stories, historical insight, and reflections on progress, these distinguished voices will explore the meaning of Juneteenth, the long road to freedom, and the work that remains to build a more just and inclusive future.
July 10, 2025 | 6:30 – 7:30 PM
Ride shotgun with writer-photographer Randy Mallory on his fifty-year road trip exploring the endlessly fascinating people and places of Texas. The fourth-generation Texan spent a five-decade career traveling every part of the Lone Star State on assignments for statewide magazines and tourism agencies. In more than two hundred photos and four reflective essays, his first photo retrospective offers what he found. At the turn of every page—just like the rounding of every bend—there are delightful and surprising places: a thunderhead billowing behind a spinning Ferris wheel, a Volkswagen Beetle hung from a giant oak, a steam-powered riverboat gliding through mossy swamps, and yard art of a pregnant woman playing electric guitar. Meet the proud and diverse people he encountered: an organic farmer with a UFO museum, rural church members at a foot-washing ceremony, an adventurer riding the highway in a wind-powered sail trike, and five US presidents sharing the same stage.
The Fifty-Year Texas Road Trip: On Assignment from Earth to Uncertain is drawn from thousands of images contained in the Randy Mallory Collection at the University of North Texas. The collection and this book serve as a colorful and telling record of one photographer’s attempt to capture Texas’s sense of place during an important and ever-changing half century. The breadth of his career (1972–2022) allows the book to showcase many aspects of Texas history and culture that are gone or are rapidly fading away. A foreword by Dan K. Utley, former chief historian for the Texas Historical Commission, places Mallory’s photography in perspective as a valuable resource in the necessary work of chronicling history as it evolves around us every day.
About the Author
Randy Mallory is a fourth-generation Texan who spent fifty years as a travel writer and photographer for publications such as Texas Highways, Texas Monthly, and the Dallas Morning News and for agencies such as the Texas Historical Commission and the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. Mallory donated his photography archive to UNT Special Collections in 2021. This is the first book of his work.
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This lecture series supported by:
Belmont Village Senior Living is designed for seniors who need some assistance with daily activities. Residents enjoy chef-prepared meals, housekeeping, transportation, and social activities.
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July 31, 2025 | 6:30 PM
Join the DHS for this FREE evening lecture & book signing. Texas author Josh Rountree is debuting his latest book:The Unkillable Frank Lightning. With his signature clean prose that reads like Raymond Chandler, Rountree has penned a Frankenstein-inspired tale unlike any other. With equal parts Cormac McCarthy and Stephen Graham Jones, Rountree coalesces myth and legend into a dramatic tale of love, death, and its terrible aftermath.