Texas History Lectures Kick Off This Fall | Victoria News

Victoria Texas News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Sep 7, 2026 · 1m

Free Texas history talks are coming to the Museum of the Coastal Bend this fall — no tickets, no cost, just deep dives into politics, culture, and archaeology. Kick off with Bobby Oliver on post-Reconstruction voting restrictions that birthed Jim Crow, then dive into Victoria’s Club Westerner with Sydney Salazar, where Tejano music and Sunday conjunto nights thrived. Close it out with a screening of “The Stones Are Speaking,” following archaeologist Mike Collins at the Gault Site — home to human footprints 20,000 years old — plus a filmmaker Q&A at Cuero ISD Performing Arts Center. Listen in…