History of Galveston

Living on the gulf coast in the United states means that one faces the threat of the damaging effects of a massive hurricane. This was no different for the people of Galveston, Texas in the beginning of the 20th century. Galveston is situated in the southeastern part of Texas and sits on what is called a barrier island. Barrier Island formation is strongly influenced by four main factors: a low seabed gradient, shallow water depth, abundant existing sediment supply, and a moderate-to-strong storm climate (Pilkey et al., 2009). Galveston Island is considered an active island, meaning that is currently experiencing ongoing destruction (Pilkey et al., 2009). Ongoing destruction means that the shoreline of these islands erodes away into the gulf as waves and other factors remove the sediment from the island. At the time of the hurricane, Galveston was the 4th largest city in the state of Texas and was one of the richest cities in America (“Galveston”). It was one of the nation’s most important port cities at that time. Galveston was also a…

Preview: In the 1990s Galveston College had an outstanding English instructor named Michael Hodge. Michael was one of the most anti-authoritarian and impertinent persons I have ever met. Sometimes he liked to dispute with people just to for the sake of holding them accountable for their thinking and ideas, which is to say he would dispute people’s beliefs even when he might have completely agreed with everything that person was saying. Then at age 48 he went to bed one night and had his…

“Isaac’s Storm”, by Erik Larson, is a non-fiction historical narrative about the 1900 Galveston, Texas hurricane, “the most lethal hurricane this country has ever known. So far.” (www.washingtonpost.com) 1 In the book, Larson tells the story of Isaac Cline, the chief weather observer assigned to the Galveston, Texas weather station from 1891 to 1901. Mr. Larson, is a former “staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, and later a contributing writer for Time Magazine [who] has written articles…

Galveston is a 29 mile strip of land, that two miles off the coast of Texas. On September 8, 1900 a category 4 hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, devastating a lot of home, and business (History). The hurricane was first thought to be a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean, because it had statues of a tropical storm for five days. Galveston was the most populated city in Texas before the hurricane hit it (Hurricanescience). Some prevention that the people of Galveston took where giving people…

company. When Ronnie was in his thirties, his company was doing very well and he was very happy. However, he didn’t know what was coming the following year. Disaster strikes. A terrible cyclone is coming and has plans on destroying Texas as a whole. They call it the Great Galveston Hurricane. The state of Texas seems to have already given up, but Ronnie isn’t going to let this happen to his home. It becomes a race between Ronnie and the Great Galveston. Will Ronnie win? Ronnie begins by…

I took over three college-prep U.S. History classes, one English as a Second Language (ESL) U.S. History class, and team-taught an Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. History class. When I joined the AP U.S. History class, the course was essentially finished because the AP test had been taken, and students were working on final projects. The college-prep and ESL classes , on the other hand, had decades of content to cover from post World War II to the 1960s in the college-prep classes, and early…

When I first heard about the Oral History project I did not know what to expect. After reading the assignment in more detail, I was excited to start the project. I immediately knew I would pick my mother for the project. She is my best friend and I wanted to learn more about her growing up with such a big family. After going over the assignment, I called my mother and asked if she would participate in the project and she said yes. I was delighted to hear her say that because I instantly started…

In 1989, at the University of Toronto, Olwen H. Hufton gave a lecture series as part of the Creighton Lecture series, given in memory of Canadian historian Donald Creighton. Hufton later published these lectures as Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution. Prior to her shift towards women’s history in the 1980s, Hufton was primarily interested in poverty and social relations; her previous books focused on social history and political history, one of which attempted to place…

sees’ the experience to stored memories inside us. Social memories are what make others remember the events that have taken place. Neither from the historical event to modern times the proven through the essence of memories it had left little fragments behind. Leaving its footprint along a time passage way makes ones seek an identities especially in today societies. In modern times today, around the world large scales of multicultural people want to know what happen. Where did this came from?…

History is a composition of past events. It is real and honest. However, the materials used by historians (which are called sources) to study history are only records of history, so they need not to be absolutely true and unbiased. If a group of scholars were to evaluate a set of clues surrounding a play, they would mainly use texts and written records of the play and all these evidences are considered sources which therefore need to be carefully examined before put into use. To these scholars,…