Houston – This year marks the 125th anniversary of the great Galveston hurricane of 1900, the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. To honor that chapter of Texas history, two Houstonians have ...
Galveston, which went from one of the nation's most prosperous Southern ports to a waterlogged pile of ruins literally overnight, has been reckoning with the storm ever since. It gave Houston an ...
Thanksgiving, and the holiday season in general, can be a sorrowful and lonely time for many, but artists in Galveston and a ...
The 1900 Storm Memorial by David Moore sits atop the Galveston Seawall. In 1900, Galveston experienced what is still considered the deadliest natural disaster in American history when a category 4 ...
As we near the peak of hurricane season, it was 125 years ago that Texas’s history was altered forever due to a massive, historic storm. In 1900, Galveston was a major hub of economic and commercial ...
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Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums and more that represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State's borders. Today, we look at Erik Larson's ...
GALVESTON, Texas — Hurricane Ike slammed into the Galveston area on Sept. 13, 2008, and up until that time, was the costliest hurricane to ever strike Texas. Property losses totaled $37 billion. Winds ...
For 125 years, Galveston has held the dubious honor of being the site of the nation's deadliest natural disaster: the devastating hurricane that came ashore on Sept. 8, 1900. Worse, at least some of ...