Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums and more that represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State's borders. Today, we look at Erik Larson's ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — The McFaddin-Ward House Museum will present a lecture Thursday examining the 1900 Galveston hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in United States history, followed by an ...

The Galveston hurricane of 1900—or just the Storm, as many islanders usually refer to it nowadays—has inspired no shortage of books, including Erik Larson's superb 1999 nonfiction bestseller Isaac's ...

Welcome to Galveston in 1900. A bustling city teaming with life and fancy hotels. The city of 38,000 has streets emblazoned with electric lights, the first of its kind in Texas, and the cities port is ...

GALVESTON, Texas - A sea wall rising 16 feet above the glistening Gulf of Mexico stands as a reminder of the 1900 hurricane that killed 8,000 residents and destroyed this island, transforming it from ...

Thanksgiving, and the holiday season in general, can be a sorrowful and lonely time for many, but artists in Galveston and a ...

The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 was by far America's deadliest, wiping out a booming city in southeast Texas. On Sept. 8, 1900, 125 years ago tonight, a Category 4 hurricane roared into Galveston ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Hurricane of 1900 that struck Galveston was an unspeakable tragedy that may have killed as many as 8,000 people, although the exact toll will never be known. However, there’s ...

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Monday, Sept. 8th marked 125 years since a massive hurricane hit Galveston Island. The storm was equivalent to what would be a present-day Category 4 hurricane. To this day, ...

Before the Great Storm of 1900 — which made its Texas landfall 125 years ago Monday — Galveston had become one of the busiest ports in North America with electric streetlights, grand hotels, and ...

Galveston, which went from one of the nation's most prosperous Southern ports to a waterlogged pile of ruins literally overnight, has been reckoning with the storm ever since. It gave Houston an ...