A Folsom (top) point and Clovis (bottom) point included in the Texas Fluted Point Survey. Image courtesy of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory (TARL)

We are excited to announce that the Texas Historical Foundation has awarded its 2025 Annual Grant to the Texas Fluted Point Survey (TFPS) project. Dr. Alan Slade, an archeologist at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at UT Austin, provides an update on the survey and discusses its significance in understanding the trajectory of human history in North America.

More than 10,000 years ago, prehistoric peoples in Texas crafted stone spear points to hunt mammoths, bison, and other animals. These finely made tools — known today as projectile points or, colloquially, as “arrowheads” — are among the oldest evidence of human life in North America. The Texas Fluted Point Survey documents and maps these artifacts to expand our understanding of our state's earliest inhabitants.

Are you a nonprofit working to preserve or promote Texas's legal history? We want you to apply for a grant! Preserving and sharing the legal and legislative history of the state and former Republic of Texas is a special focus for THF in the 2026 giving year. Applications for legal history projects will receive special notice in the Quarterly and Annual Grants programs. Learn more...

It is with a heavy heart that we report the passing of longtime THF Director Bill Sibley on August 31st. Bill joined the THF board in 1992 and was a passionate advocate for Texas history and the arts. In 2019, he established THF's William Jack Sibley Arts Endowment to support and preserve Texas art. Recent grants funded by the endowment include the Rancho Alegre oral history project to document Conjunto and Tejano music history in Texas, and the Documentary Arts, Inc. project to record tracks by early Dallas blues musicians such as Blind Lemon Jefferson and Willie Johnson.  Bill was also an accomplished author, rancher, and world traveler. His great wit, storytelling, and institutional knowledge of THF will be profoundly missed, and we extend our deepest sympathies to Bill's loved ones.

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Save the date for the 3rd annual Duda Forum on Historic Preservation and Sustainable Development, November 20-21. This year’s forum will spotlight Texas’s historic courthouses, exploring their preservation challenges and the vital role they play in communities. Since 1999, the Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program has awarded over $400 million in grants to restore 107 courthouses across the state. The forum will open with a keynote at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, followed by a full day of sessions at the Comal County Courthouse in New Braunfels. Registration will open in early October!

The Duda Forum III is coordinated by the Texas Historical Foundation, the Michael Christopher Duda Center for Preservation, Resilience, and Sustainability at the University of Notre Dame, and the Texas Historical Commission Courthouse Preservation Program.

Sherie Clarkson, Mason
Jim Collett, Midland

Michael Lewis, Dallas
Melissa Prycer, Dallas

John & Vicki Meadows, Austin

Backdoor Theatre, Wichita Falls
Bartlett Activities Center, Bartlett
Brackenridge Park Conservancy, San Antonio
Eastland County Museum, Eastland
Gregg County Historical Museum, Longview
Rancho Alegre, Austin
Rio Grande Trails and Tales, El Paso
Rutherford B.H. Yates Museum, Houston
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James Harkins
Bart Nichols in memory of Bill Sibley
Laura Wahlquist Stockdale in memory of Bill Sibley
Elizabeth & Jerry Susser in memory of Norma Schmelling, Bill Sibley, and Robert Oliver