Houston Matters
What Removing President Trump From Office Would Achieve (Jan. 8, 2021)
Posted on · On Friday's show: We discuss what removing President Trump from office would accomplish with so little time left in his term.
Posted on · On Friday's show: We discuss what removing President Trump from office would accomplish with so little time left in his term.
Posted on · Author Mark Lardas discusses his book, Vanished Houston Landmarks, which focuses on – like it sounds – some locations key to local history that we've torn down.
Posted on · Episode: 2597 Mathematical models of historical events. Today, let's see what mathematics tells us about history.
Posted on · Houston writer Kathy Haueisen, a direct descendant of pilgrims, discusses her book, Mayflower Chronicles - The Tale of Two Cultures.
Posted on · On Tuesday's show: A visit to some local polling places, comparing 2020 to other pivotal elections, great places for comfort food in Houston, and what we get wrong about the history of Thanksgiving.
Posted on · Episode: 2597 Mathematical models of historical events. Today, let's see what mathematics tells us about history.
Posted on · Episode: 1212 Human history in terms of macroparasites and microparasites. Today, we wonder who feasts upon whom.
Posted on · Episode: 1927 Balthazar-Georges Sage: an example of history aging in the cask. Today, history as an aging process.
Posted on · On Wednesday show: HISD Interim Superintendent Dr. Grenita Lathan, our weekly political roundup, and exploring how the Ottoman Empire shaped the modern world.
Posted on · On Tuesday's Houston Matters: A key deadline for the census approaches, City Councilman Greg Travis answers questions, and Sam Houston's track record on slavery.
Posted on · On Thursday's Houston Matters: Why Houston’s Chinese consulate was closed, an update on potential severe weather forming in the Gulf of Mexico, rewriting American history, and planning a performing arts season in uncertain times.
Posted on · Filmmaker Michelle Ferrari and Houston historian Betty Chapman talk about how women won the long, arduous fight for their right to vote 100 years ago.
Posted on · On Monday's show: An update on COVID-19, recent unemployment numbers, reflecting on women's fight for voting rights 100 years later, and writer Ijeoma Oluo discusses her book, So You Want To Talk About Race.
Posted on · History professor Gregory Maddox of Texas Southern University discusses the movement to take down Confederate monuments in the city.
Posted on · Houston Matters discusses the role violence has played in social change, from the American Revolution to the Civil Rights Movement.