SUNDAY SPEAKER SERIES PORTAL
The Sunday Speaker Series at the Museum of South Texas History is held either online or in person at 2 p.m. on designated Sundays. Please visit the MOSTHistory Calendar for upcoming presentations.
Online presentations are aired on Facebook Live. Recordings are available on the museum’s Facebook page and this portal.
In-person presentations are not aired on Facebook Live (or live streamed).
Presenter: Gordon Wells, Ph.D.
Presenter: José Alaniz
Sunday Speaker Series: Juneteenth: A History that Unites Us (June 12, 2022)
Presenter: María Esther Hammack
Sunday Speaker Series: U.S. Citizens Who Moved to Mexico’s Interior, 1821-46 (May 15, 2022)
Presenter: David McKenzie
Sunday Speaker Series: Records of 956 Virtual Listening Party (February 27, 2022)
Panelists: Dr. Theresa Gatling, Jessenia, María Esther Hammack, Marsha Terry, Shaena Reyes, Leslie Dutcher-Treviño, Michelle Garcia, Roseann Bacha-Garza and Nick Maddox
Presenter: Robert Saldaña
Presenter: Martin Salinas
Presenter: Rogelio Agrasánchez Jr.
Sunday Speaker Series Online: The Collapse – The True Story of the Queen Isabella Causeway Collapse (October 3, 2021)
Presenters: Joshua Moroles & Robert Espericueta
Sunday Speaker Series Online: La etnohistoria de la población nativa del delta del Río Bravo o Grande (September 19, 2021)
Presenter: Martin Salinas
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Mestizaje: Myth and Reality (or Novelas, Buddha comes to México, fajita tacos, and Selena) (September 5, 2021)
Presenter: Gilberto Reyes Jr.
Sunday Speaker Series Online: The Mexica (Aztecs) – A Brief, But Startling, Glimpse of the Future (August 29, 2021)
Presenter: Gilberto Reyes Jr.
Presenter: Manuel Hinojosa
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Mitigation, Preparedness and Disaster Response (August 1, 2021)
Panelists: Suzanne Pierce, Raul Sesin and Barry Goldsmith
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Climate Change and Flooding on South Texas and Northern Mexico: Infectious Diseases (July 25, 2021)
Panelists: Paty Feria, Katy Brown and Alexis Racelis
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Hurricane Beulah (July 18, 2021)
Panelists: Lupita Gonzalez, Lupe Saenz and Clint Dawson
Sunday Speaker Series Online: La lingüística de los grupos nativos de Llanura Costera del Golfo de México (June 27, 2021)
Presenter: Martin Salinas
Sunday Speaker Series Online: From Slavery to South Texas (June 20, 2021)
Panelists: Sabrina Walker-Hernandez, Nicholas Maddox and Floyd Hannah
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Rio Grande Valley Infrastructure (June 13, 2021)
Panelists: Pedro R. Alvarez, Ellie Torres and Joseph Winston Jr.
Panelists: Emmy Pérez, Margo Tamez and César L. de León
Presenter: Jesus Correa Martinez
Panelists: Eduardo Martinez, Gabriel Sanchez & Manuel Hinojosa
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Fiesta de Oro – Highlights of a 50 Year History (April 18, 2021)
Panelists: Fran Alger & Shan Rankin
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Entorno, arqueología y el primer poblamiento del bajo Río Grande o Bravo (March 28, 2021)
Presenter: Martin Salinas
Panelists: Exhibits Coordinator Melissa Peña & CEO Francisco Guajardo
Panelists: Evaliza Fuentes, Juan Longoria and Sarah Rucker
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Callandret, The Man, The School, The Times (February 28, 2021)
Panelists: Sandra Tumberlinson & Lonnie Davis
Presenter: Romeo Rosales Jr.
Sunday Speaker Series Online: The Story of Falfurrias Butter and the Lasater Family (February 14, 2021)
Panelists: Peggy Lasater Clark & MOSTHistory archivist Kelly Francis-Love
Presenter: Greg Selber, Ph.D.
Presenters: MOSTHistory archivist Kelly Francis-Love, Beth Remsburg & Pony Allen
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Killer Bees! The Panic over Africanized Honeybees in the Rio Grande Valley (January 10, 2021)
Presenter: Jamie Starling, Ph. D.
Presenter: Dr. Allison Schottenstein
Presenters: Melissa Guerra and Adán Medrano
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Lower Rio Grande Valley Historic Architecture on Still Film (December 6, 2020)
Presenter: Pino Shah
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Ranching Recuerdos (November 22, 2020)
Panelists: Lilia Garcia, Melissa Guerra and Jesus Muñoz
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Reflections on the 1963 NAIA National Championship (November 8, 2020)
Panelists: Marty Urand, Paul Friddle, Joe Karam, Jim Harter, Gorden Foetster, Jim McGurk, Jim Board, Walter Yates Jr., Vinnie Marino
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Digital Altar Exhibit Reception (November 1, 2020)
Panelists: Stephanie Salinas and Dalia Salinas
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Reflecting on Día de los Muertos – Life, Healing and Family (October 25, 2020)
Presenter: Servando Hinojosa
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Half a Century on the Court – A Conversation with Basketball Coaching Legend Robert Capello (October 18, 2020)
Presenter: Robert Capello
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Taking South Texas Art to the World – Perspectives from Valley Artists (October 4, 2020)
Panelists: Valente Rodriguez, Andrea Guajardo and David Rice
Sunday Speaker Series Online: The Escuelitas of South Texas: An Educational History (September 27, 2020)
Presenter: Philis M. Barragán Goetz
Sunday Speaker Series Online: The Story of the 1970 San Juan Plane Crash (September 13, 2020)
Presenter: Joseph Fox
Sunday Speaker Series Online: The Phantom Zone and Other Stories – An Author’s Talk (August 23, 2020)
Presenter: José Alaniz
Sunday Speaker Series Online: A History of the Valley’s LGBTQ+ Community (August 9, 2020)
Presenter: Gabriel Sanchez
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Incarcerating Mexican Immigrants in South Texas, 1929-1930 (August 2, 2020)
Presenter: Cristina Salinas
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Adela Sloss-Vento of San Juan and Edinburg: Major Tejana Civil Rights Activist and Feminist, 1927-1990 (July 12, 2020)
Presenter: Dr. Cynthia Orozco
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Presenter: Ariel P. King
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Sunday Speaker Series Online: 1910 and the Making of a Border Hero: Jacinto Treviño (June 14, 2020)
Presenter: Daniel García Ordaz
Read Daniel García Ordaz’s article “Will the Real Jacinto Treviño Please Stand Up?” here.
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Contextualizing George Floyd – A South Texas Perspective (June 7, 2020)
Panelists: Dr. Beverly Ashley-Fridie; Dr. Alberto Rodriguez; Roseann Bacha-Garza
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Presenter: Robert Ramírez
Sunday Speaker Series Online: Bandits by the Border – The Mexican Revolution in the Rio Grande Valley (May 17, 2020)
Presenter: Gabriel Ozuna