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A significant event in the Texas history world takes place this month,
as the new Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum opens its doors to
the public. Director Lynn Denton, former assistant director of the Texas
Memorial Museum in Austin, promises that the museum will be fun and
educational for all, with three floors of permanent exhibition telling the
story of Texas, two theaters, a 7,ooo-square-foot temporary exhibit
space, a restaurant, and a shop.
That would have pleased Bullock, the political mentor of President
George W. Bush and the legendary former lieutenant governor of the
state, who died in 1999. He conceived the museum and shepherded the
bond money through the legislature. He insisted that it be an education-
al institution, not a collecting or research institution. He wanted people
to enjoy the experience. He would have identified with the experience
of former TSHA president J. P. Bryan Jr. of Houston, who several years
ago related to a Texas Association of Museums audience how he had
taken his children to so many historical museums that they got to the
point that they would not get out of the car when they arrived at another
museum.
There will be much publicity associated with the opening of the new
museum, so we need not repeat that information here. Suffice it to say
that we are pleased to welcome a new member of the Texas historical
community. It will be an important institution in our state. There you
will be able to see on display the treasures of Texas history-from the
Center for American History and the Texas Memorial Museum at the
University of Texas at Austin, the Texas State Library, and other reposi-
tories around the state. And it may well be there that our children and
grandchildren will first experience the thrill that is inherent in the story
of Texas.
Gender on the Borderlands, a two-day history conference on July
12-14, 2001, at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, invites pro-
posals that explore gender in the geographic region that becomes the
Spanish/Mexican/U.S. Borderlands, now the Mexico-U.S. Border.
Proposals may focus on any period and on any subject on gender in the
history of this region. The conference welcomes proposals for panels,
roundtables and workshops, including proposals for curriculum devel-
opment and pedagogy. Please send an abstract (250 words) and a one-
page vita for each participant in the proposed panel, roundtable, or
workshop by May 15, 2001, to: Antonia Castafieda, Gender on the
Borderlands Conference, St. Mary's University, One Camino Santa
Maria, Box 46, San Antonio, TX 78228. Notifications will be mailed on585
2001
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