By Aric Richardson An often overlooked and swiftly fading part of our regional culture is the Houston bookstore. In the 1860s early bookshops in Houston were not only purveyors of books, but were also the main source of printing, news delivery, and music. But what has happened to the bookselling industry between then and […]
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15.1 Wrecks and Redemption Table of Contents
By Houston History Magazine on November 14, 2017 in Archives, Arts & Culture, Business and Industry, Communities, Energy and Environment, Houstonians, Hurricanes, Letter from the Editor, Politics, Race & Ethnicity, Women
Download the full pdf. Vol. 15, No. 1 (Fall 2017) Letter from the Editor by Debbie Z. Harwell 2 Seeing Frost Town from the bottom up: Using Archeology and Archives to Reconstruct a Forgotten Houston Neighborhood By Jason W. Barrett, Douglas K. Boyd, and Louis F. Aulbach 8 The 1947 Texas City Disaster: Changing Lives […]