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For the duration and beyond: World War II and the creation of modern Houston, Texas (Thesis). Rice University (PhD dissertation). hdl:1911/19400; Levengood, Paul A. (April 1998). "In the Absence of Scarcity: The Civil War Prosperity of Houston, Texas". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 101 (4): 401– 426. JSTOR 30239127.
1934 - Houston Junior College becomes a four-year institution and changes its name to the University of Houston. 1935 - A massive flood inundates Houston, killing eight people; the Harris County Flood Control District is created in the aftermath. 1937 - Houston Municipal Airport, which would later become William P. Hobby Airport, is opened.
Date: December 30–31, 1842 ... The Texas Archive War was an 1842 dispute over an ... Public sentiment was that Austin was safe and that Houston's departure had ...
Houston uses the boat Yellow Stone to cross the Brazos River. April 15 Santa Anna and his army arrive at Harrisburg. April 18 Houston and his army arrive outside of Harrisburg. April 20 Texian and Mexican patrols clash at New Washington. Houston moves his army to Buffalo Bayou; J.C. Neill is wounded and replaced by G.W. Hockley.
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second ...
Gates, the Houston-area representative, told The Hill that this bad blood and reliance on “terroristic threats” represent a significant liability for the Cook faction’s ability to win — or ...
General Antonio López de Santa Anna was a proponent of governmental federalism when he helped oust Mexican President Anastasio Bustamante in December 1832. Upon his election as president in April 1833, [4] Santa Anna switched his political ideology and began implementing centralist policies that increased the authoritarian powers of his office. [5]
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