Houston History grew out of The Houston Review: History and Culture of the Gulf Coast, an academic journal that was published by the Houston Public Library from 1979-1999. These articles offer important contributions to our local history, but unfortunately we have not had the opportunity to make all of them available on the website. Those that are available will show up as blue links on the list below.
Volume 1
Cook, Charles Orson. “John Milsap’s Houston: 1910.” The Houston Review 1, no. 1 (1979).
Tindall, George B. “The Sunbelt Snow Job.” The Houston Review 1, no. 1 (1979).
Dreyer, Martin. “The Way We Were: Houston’s Culture in the 1940s.” The Houston Review 1, no. 1 (1979).
SoRelle, James M. “”An De Po Cullud Man Is in De Wuss Fix Uv Awl”: Black Occupational Status in Houston, Texas, 1920-1940.” The Houston Review 1, no. 1 (1979).
Cook, Charles Orson. “John Milsaps’ Houston: 1910 (Part II).” The Houston Review 1, no. 2 (1979).
Lowry, Beverly. “Compared to What.” The Houston Review 1, no. 2 (1979).
Dixon, Terrell. “Houston, Houston, Houston: McMurtry’s View of the City.” The Houston Review 1, no. 2 (1979).
Goyen, William. “While You Were Away (Houston Seen and Unseen, 1923-1978).” The Houston Review 1, no. 2 (1979).
Brownell, Blaine A. “If You’ve Seen One, You Haven’t Seen Them All: Recent Trends in Southern Urban History.” The Houston Review 1, no. 2 (1979).
Volume 2
Fox, Stephen. “Public Art and Private Spaces: Shadyside.” The Houston Review 2, no. 1 (1980).
Weber, Bruce J. “Will Hogg and Civic Consciousness: Houston Style.” The Houston Review 2, no. 1 (1980).
Boyer, Paul. “The Ideology of the Civic Arts Movement in America, 1890-1920.” The Houston Review 2, no. 1 (1980).
Strom, Steven. “Review of A Weekend in September, by John Edward Weems.” The Houston Review 2, no. 2 (1980).
“The Houston of The ‘Daring Plungers.'” The Houston Review 2, no. 2 (1980).
Davis, Robert Murray. “Donald Barthelme in Houston.” The Houston Review 2, no. 2 (1980).
Lazarou, Kathleen E. “A History of the Port of Galveston: A Constitutional-Legal Overview.” The Houston Review 2, no. 2 (1980).
Jackson, Susan. “Slavery in Houston: The 1850s.” The Houston Review 2, no. 2 (1980).
Schiflett, Mary. “Review of The Architecture of John F. Staub: Houston and the South, by Howard Barnstone.” The Houston Review 2, no. 3 (1980).
Cartwright, David, Deborah A. Bauer, and Steven Strom. “Reminiscences of a Wildcatter: Interview with Glenn H. McCarthy.” The Houston Review 2, no. 3 (1980).
Marchiafava, Louis J. “Oil! A Reservoir of Houston History.” The Houston Review 2, no. 3 (1980).
Speer, James B., Jr. “Pestilence and Progress: Health Reform in Galveston and Houston During the Nineteenth Century.” The Houston Review 2, no. 3 (1980).
Volume 3
Turner, Drexel, Stephen Fox, Louis J. Marchiafava, Deborah A. Bauer, and Steven Strom. “Planning the City, an Interview with Ralph Ellifrit.” The Houston Review 3, no. 1 (1981).
Kaplan, Barry J. “Race, Income, and Ethnicity: Residential Change in a Houston Community, 1920-1970.” The Houston Review 3, no. 1 (1981).
Carleton, Don E. “McCarthyism in Local Elections: The Houston School Board of 1952.” The Houston Review 3, no. 1 (1981).
Kreneck, Thomas H. “A Letter from Chapultepec.” The Houston Review 3, no. 2 (1981).
Mindiola, Tatcho. “A Personal Comment on Assimilation.” The Houston Review 3, no. 2 (1981).
Gil, Carlos B. “Lydia Mendoza: Houstonian and First Lady of Mexican American Song.” The Houston Review 3, no. 2 (1981).
Rosales, F. Arturo. “Mexicans in Houston: The Struggle to Survive, 1908-1975.” The Houston Review 3, no. 2 (1981).
Marchiafava, Louis J., George T. Morgan, Deborah A. Bauer, and Steven Strom. “Texas Labor in the Thirties: Gilbert Mers and the Corpus Christi Waterfront Strikes.” The Houston Review 3, no. 3 (1981).
Kemper, Deane A. “”Your Generous Invitation”: Events Preceding the Appearance of John F. Kennedy before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association.” The Houston Review 3, no. 3 (1981).
Miller, Zane L. “Urban Growth in the South: General Patterns.” The Houston Review 3, no. 3 (1981).
Volume 4
Carleton, Don E. “The Second Coming of P.T. Barnum.” The Houston Review 4, no. 1 (1982).
Courtney, Linda Anderson. “The Evolution of Cinema Design in Houston from 1900-1920s.” The Houston Review 4, no. 1 (1982).
Rhinehart, Marilyn D. “Country to City: North Harris County College and the Changing Scene in Gulf Coast East Texas.” The Houston Review 4, no. 1 (1982).
Endelman, Sharon Bice. “The Open Forum, 1926-1938: The Lecture Platform and the First Amendment in the Bayou City.” The Houston Review 4, no. 1 (1982).
Scardino, Barrie. “A Legacy of City Halls for Houston.” The Houston Review 4, no. 2 (1982).
Rhinehart, Marilyn D. “A Lesson in Unity: The Houston Municipal Workers’ Strike of 1946.” The Houston Review 4, no. 2 (1982).
Herzerg, James. “Speed and Growth, the Development of the Gulf Freeway.” The Houston Review 4, no. 2 (1982).
Volume 5
Bauer, Deborah A. “John Milsap’s Diary.” The Houston Review 5, no. 1 (1983).
Smallwood, James. “G.T. Ruby: Galveston’s Black Carpetbagger in Reconstruction Texas.” The Houston Review 5, no. 1 (1983).
Dreyer, Martin. “Portrait of a Houston Artist, an Interview with Margaret Webb Dryer.” The Houston Review 5, no. 1 (1983).
Wilson, Michael E. “Alfred C. Finn: Houston Architect.” The Houston Review 5, no. 2 (1983).
Glass, James L. “An Englishman In “Texian Service,” 1835-1836.” The Houston Review 5, no. 2 (1983).
Perrenod, Virginia. “Public Development for Private Purposes, a Case Study of Greenwood Utility District, Harris County, Texas.” The Houston Review 5, no. 3 (1983).
Kreneck, Thomas H., and Deborah A. Bauer. “Restoring the Milroy House: An Interview with Alan Bies and Steve Boehck.” The Houston Review 5, no. 3 (1983).
Papademetrious, Peter C. “Urban Development and Public Policy in the Progressive Era; 1890-1940.” The Houston Review 5, no. 3 (1983).
Volume 6
Walker Jr., L.L. “1910: The Year the Air Age Came to Houston.” The Houston Review 6, no. 1 (1984).
Henson, Margaret S. “Robert P. Boyce: Nineteenth-Century Houstonian.” The Houston Review 6, no. 1 (1984).
Maroney, James C. “Labor’s Struggle for Acceptance: The Houston Worker in a Changing Society, 1900-1929.” The Houston Review 6, no. 1 (1984).
Hyman, Harold M. “William Marsh Rice’s Credit Ratings.” The Houston Review 6, no. 2 (1984).
Parker, Kenneth Neal. “The Politics of Race and the 1957 Houston Mayoral Campaign: Oscar Holcombe’s Last Hurrah.” The Houston Review 6, no. 2 (1984).
Angel Jr., William D. “The Politics of Space: Nasa’s Decision to Locate the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.” The Houston Review 6, no. 2 (1984).
Looser, Don. “A Musical Renaissance: The Growth of Cultural Institutions in Houston, 1929-1936.” The Houston Review 6, no. 3 (1984).
Wygant, Larry J. “”A Municipal Broom”: The Woman Suffrage Campaign in Galveston, Texas.” The Houston Review 6, no. 3 (1984).
Fisher, Robert. “”Be on the Lookout”: Neighborhood Civic Clubs in Houston.” The Houston Review 6, no. 3 (1984).
Volume 7
Nealon, Clark, Robert Nottebart, Stanley E. Siegel, and James Tinsley. “The Campaign for Major League Baseball in Houston.” The Houston Review 7, no. 1 (1985).
Marchiafava, Louis J. “Houston Schools Remembered.” The Houston Review 7, no. 2 (1985).
Liddell, Marilynn. “The Creation of the Houston Community College: A Concept Becomes a Reality.” The Houston Review 7, no. 2 (1985).
Sapper, Neil. “The Fall of the NAACP in Texas.” The Houston Review 7, no. 2 (1985).
Kreneck, Thomas H. “Camp Logan and the Photography of Fred L. Vermillion.” The Houston Review 7, no. 3 (1985).
Olson, Bruce A. “The Houston Light Guards: A Study of Houston’s Post-Reconstruction Militia and Its Membership, 1873-1903.” The Houston Review 7, no. 3 (1985).
Kreneck, Thomas H. “Jake Wolters: An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove.” The Houston Review 7, no. 3 (1985).
Volume 8
Hadley, Nancy. “Presenting … The Circus! Materials from the Heiser-Alban Collection.” The Houston Review 8, no. 1 (1986).
Day, Barbara Thompson. “The Heart of Houston: The Early History of the Houston Council on Human Relations, 1958-1972.” The Houston Review 8, no. 1 (1986).
Feagin, Joe R. “Review of Indians, Cattle Ships, and Oil: The Story of W.M.D. Lee, by Donald F. Schofield.” The Houston Review 8, no. 2 (1986).
Strom, Steven. “Cotton and Profits across the Border: William Marsh Rice in Mexico, 1863-1865.” The Houston Review 8, no. 2 (1986).
Pitre, Meline. “Richard Allen: The Chequered Career of Houston’s First Black State Legislator.” The Houston Review 8, no. 2 (1986).
Davis, Stephen. “Joseph Jay Pastoriza and the Single Tax in Houston, 1911-1917.” The Houston Review 8, no. 2 (1986).
Wilson, Michael E. “Thomas Flintoff Visits Houston.” The Houston Review 8, no. 3 (1986).
Kreneck, Thomas H. “Sam Houston and the Jacksonian Frontier Personality.” The Houston Review 8, no. 3 (1986).
Volume 9
Twomey, Dannehl M. “Into the Mainstream: Early Black Photography in Houston.” The Houston Review 9, no. 1 (1987).
Christian, Garna L. “They Brightened the Corner: The Era of Gulf Coast Texas Swing.” The Houston Review 9, no. 1 (1987).
Fox, Stephen. “The Houston Buildings of N.J. Clayton.” The Houston Review 9, no. 1 (1987).
Dressman, Frances. “”Yes, We Have No Jitneys!”: Transportation Issues in Houston’s Black Community, 1914-1925.” The Houston Review 9, no. 2 (1987).
Platt, Harold L. “Houston’s First Battle over Utility Rates.” The Houston Review 9, no. 2 (1987).
Dressman, Frances. “Visions for Houston: Booster Literature, 1886-1926.” The Houston Review 9, no. 3 (1987).
Henderson, Archie. “City Planning in Houston, 1920-1930.” The Houston Review 9, no. 3 (1987).
Hadley, Nancy. “The “Hello” Girls of Houston.” The Houston Review 9, no. 3 (1987).
Volume 10
Greene, Casey. “Guardians against Change: The Ku Klux Klan in Houston and Harris County, 1920-1925.” The Houston Review 10, no. 1 (1988).
Rhinehart, Marilyn D., and Thomas H. Kreneck. “In the Shadow Of “Uncertainty”: Texas Mexicans and Repatriation in Houston During the Great Depression.” The Houston Review 10, no. 1 (1988).
Black, Gordon. “Sylvan Beach: Houston’s Playground, 1892-1943.” The Houston Review 10, no. 1 (1988).
Greene, Casey. “Sandbar to Seaport: Galveston’s Waterfront in the Nineteenth Century.” The Houston Review 10, no. 2 (1988).
Hyman, Harold M. “I.H. Kempner and the Galveston Commission Government.” The Houston Review 10, no. 2 (1988).
Benham, Priscilla. “Texas City: Port of Opportunity.” The Houston Review 10, no. 3 (1988).
Herzerg, James. “Preserving Armand Bayou.” The Houston Review 10, no. 3 (1988).
Volume 11
Greene, Casey. “More Than a Thimbleful: Prohibition in Galveston, 1919-1933.” The Houston Review 11, no. 1 (1989).
Rhinehart, Marilyn D., and Thomas H. Kreneck. “The Minimum Wage March of 1966: A Case Study in Mexican-American Politics, Labor, and Identity.” The Houston Review 11, no. 1 (1989).
Moretta, John. “William Pitt Ballinger and the Travail of Texas Secession.” The Houston Review 11, no. 1 (1989).
Zelden, Charles. “Regional Growth and the Federal District Courts: The Impact of Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, Jr., on Southeast Texas, 1918-1931.” The Houston Review 11, no. 2 (1989).
Johnson, Carol. “Fire in the Fifth Ward: An Interview with Kathryn Noble Wilcox.” The Houston Review 11, no. 2 (1989).
Steiner, Mark E. “”If We Don’t Do Anything but Have an Annual Dinner”: The Early History of the Houston Bar Association.” The Houston Review 11, no. 2 (1989).
Volume 12
Scott, Janelle D. “Local Leadership in the Woman Suffrage Movement: Houston’s Campaign for the Vote 1917-1918.” The Houston Review 12, no. 1 (1990).
Summers, Suzanne L. “Banking in Houston, 1840-1914.” The Houston Review 12, no. 1 (1990).
Pitre, Meline. “Black Houstonians and The “Separate but Equal” Doctrine: Carter W. Wesley Versus Lulu B. White.” The Houston Review 12, no. 1 (1990).
Dulaney, W. Marvin. “The Texas Negro Peace Officers’ Association: The Origins of Black Police Unionism.” The Houston Review 12, no. 2 (1990).
Castaneda, Christopher J. “The Texas-Northeast Connection: The Rise of the Post-World War II Gas Pipeline Industry.” The Houston Review 12, no. 2 (1990).
Brunet, Lesley William. “Alan Gregg and the Early Years of the Texas Medical Center.” The Houston Review 12, no. 2 (1990).
Stephenson, Charles. “Jazz Images: A Sampling from the Texas Jazz Archive.” The Houston Review 12, no. 3 (1990).
Christian, Garna L. “Texas Beginnings: Houston in the World of Jazz.” The Houston Review 12, no. 3 (1990).
Marchiafava, Louis J., and Charles Stephenson. “A Feeling for Jazz: An Interview with Arnett Cobb.” The Houston Review 12, no. 3 (1990).
Volume 13
Southwick, Leslie H. “The Texas Presidential Election in 1838: Robert Wilson.” The Houston Review 13, no. 1 (1991).
Dirck, Brian. “”Administered in Much Discretion”: William Pinckney Hill and the Confederate Grand Jury in Galveston, Texas, 1861-1862.” The Houston Review 13, no. 1 (1991).
Handley, Nancy. “Harbor, Industry, and Homes.” The Houston Review 13, no. 1 (1991).
Smith, C. Calvin. “The Houston Riot of 1917, Revisited.” The Houston Review 13, no. 2 (1991).
Southwick, Leslie H. “The Texas Presidential Election of 1839: Peter Grayson and James Collingsworth.” The Houston Review 13, no. 2 (1991).
Henson, Margaret S. “El Orcoquisac”1756-1771:The Mission Nuestra Senora De La Luz Del Orcoquisac,the Presidio San Agustin De Ahumada,& the Rivalry between the Spanish & the French for the Indian Trade in Southeastern Texas.” The Houston Review 13, no. 3 (1991).
San Miguel, Guadalupe, Jr. “”The Community Is Beginning to Rumble”: The Origins of Chicano Educational Protest in Houston, 1965-1970.” The Houston Review 13, no. 3 (1991).
Glasser, Doris, and Nancy Hadley. “The Democratic National Convention in 1928.” The Houston Review 13, no. 3 (1991).
Volume 14
Glasser, Doris. “The Gustav A. Forsgard Diaries.” The Houston Review 14, no. 1 (1992).
Campbell, Randolph B. “Scalawag District Judges: The E.J. Davis Appointees, 1870-1873.” The Houston Review 14, no. 2 (1992).
Beauboeuf, Bruce Andre. “War and Change: Houston’s Economic Ascendancy During World War I.” The Houston Review 14, no. 2 (1992).
Hadley, Nancy, and Steven Strom. “Innovation, Boosterism, and Agriculture on the Gulf Coast, 1890-1920.” The Houston Review 14, no. 2 (1992).
Mackey, Thomas C. “Thelma Denton and Associates: Houston’s Red Light Reservation and a Question of Jim Crow.” The Houston Review 14, no. 3 (1992).
Malavis, Nick. “To Protect and Serve: Houston’s “Judge” James A. Elkins Defends the Pure Oil Company, 1931.” The Houston Review 14, no. 3 (1992).
Johnson, Carol. “Texas and Houston, 1836-1846: Maps in the Houston Public Library’s Collection.” The Houston Review 14, no. 3 (1992).
Volume 15
Crouch, Barry A. “”Magnificent Barbarian”: Sam Houston Revisited.” The Houston Review 15, no. 1 (1993).
Chapman, Betty T. “From the Parlor to the Public: New Roles for Women in Houston, 1885-1918.” The Houston Review 15, no. 1 (1993).
Hamilton, Charles R. “Images of an Industry: The Hughes Tool Company Collection.” The Houston Review 15, no. 1 (1993).
Volume 16
Campbell, Randolph B. “Reconstruction in Nueces County, 1865-1876.” The Houston Review 16, no. 1 (1994).
Lovett, Leslie A. “Biracial Politics and Community Development: The Reconstruction Experience in Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869-1889.” The Houston Review 16, no. 1 (1994).
Johnson, Carol. “Watching Houston Grow: Maps in the Houston Public Library’s Collection.” The Houston Review 16, no. 1 (1994).
Baron, Steven M. “Streetcars and the Growth of Houston.” The Houston Review 16, no. 2 (1994).
Botson, Michael. “Jim Crow Wearing Steel-Toed Shoes and Safety Glasses: Duel Unionism at the Hughes Tool Company, 1918-1942.” The Houston Review 16, no. 2 (1994).
Anglim, Christopher. “South Texas College of Law: Houston’s Gateway to Opportunity in Law.” The Houston Review 16, no. 3 (1994).
Glass, James L. “The Original Book of Sales of Lots in the Houston Town Company from 1836 Forward.” The Houston Review 16, no. 3 (1994).
Volume 17
O’Kane, Elisabeth. “”To Lift the City out of the Mud”: Health, Sanitation, and Sewerage in Houston, 1840-1920.” The Houston Review 17, no. 1 (1995).
Herzerg, James. “Naturalist Armand Yramategui, 1923-1970.” The Houston Review 17, no. 1 (1995).
Anderson, Brian. “Visions of Monorail in Houston, 1955-1994.” The Houston Review 17, no. 1 (1995).
Bacon, Amy. “The West Ranch: From Cattle to Space City.” The Houston Review 17, no. 2 (1995).
Strom, Steven. “A Legacy of Civic Pride: Houston’s PWA Buildings.” The Houston Review 17, no. 2 (1995).
Dickey, O.P., and Susan Karina. “The Business of Architecture in Late Nineteenth-Century Texas.” The Houston Review 17, no. 2 (1995).
Volume 18
Davidson, John, and Robert Fisher. “Social Planning in Houston: The Council of Social Agencies, 1928-1976.” The Houston Review 18, no. 1 (1996).
Kelly, Thomas. “Free Enterprise, Costly Relief: Charity in Houston, Tx, 1915-1937.” The Houston Review 18, no. 1 (1996).
Akkerman, Sam. “The Humphreville-Beasley Collection: Photographs of Daily Life at Houston and Morgan Point.” The Houston Review 18, no. 1 (1996).
Kellar, William H. “Alive with a Vengeance: Houston’s Black Teachers and Their Fight for Equal Pay.” The Houston Review 18, no. 2 (1996).
Crough, Barry A. “A Political Education: Geroge T. Ruby and the Texas Freedmen’s Bureau.” The Houston Review 18, no. 2 (1996).
Barr, Alwyn. “Reconstruction Change and Continuity in Brazoria County, Texas.” The Houston Review 18, no. 2 (1996).
Obadele-Starks, Ernest. “Black Struggle, White Resistance and Upper Texas Gulf Coast Railroads, 1900-1945.” The Houston Review 18, no. 2 (1996).
Shabazz, Amilcar. “One for the Crows and One for the Crackers: The Strange Career of Public Higher Education in Houston, Texas.” The Houston Review 18, no. 2 (1996).
Volume 19
Burns, Chester R., and Heather Campbell. “Sanitizing Galveston: Politics, Policies, and Practices before 1915.” The Houston Review 19, no. 1 (1997).
Campbell, Heather. “A Note on the First Nursing School in Texas and Its Role in the Nineteenth Century American Experience.” The Houston Review 19, no. 1 (1997).
Wygant, Larry J. “A Sickly City: Health and Disease in Antebellum Galveston, Texas.” The Houston Review 19, no. 1 (1997).
Greene, Casey. “Foresight Built the Rosenberg Library’s Archives.” The Houston Review 19, no. 1 (1997).
Vaiani, Cheryl Ellis. “Galveston’s Midwives in the Early Twentieth Century.” The Houston Review 19, no. 1 (1997).
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