In 1999 one door closed on Houston history and a new one opened thanks to the vision of Joe Pratt, then the University of Houston’s (UH) Cullen and National Endowment for the Humanities Chair in History and Business, and Marty Melosi, director of the Institute for Public History, now the Center for Public History (CPH). […]
![Twenty Years of Houston History Shown left to right are Joe Pratt (founder), Buffalo Soldiers Museum founder, Captain Paul Matthews, and donor Welcome Wilson, Sr.](https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/launch-military-might-e1701139831575-100x100.png)