Pasadena History Events

Sunday, Feb 19 11:00a
Houston Museum of Natural Science - Burke Baker Planetarium, Houston
Visit the Classic Mayan cities of Uxmal, Chichen Itza, Tikal, and Palenque to discover how the Maya aligned their temples to watch their sky gods and used interlocking calendars to record the past and predict t

Tuesday, Feb 21 6:30p
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston
John C. Waugh, Historian Abraham Lincoln treaded through a political minefield when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, saw it passed and signed the 13th amendment that freed slaves.

Tuesday, Mar 6 6:30p
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston
James Oakes, Ph.D., City University of New York By January 1, 1863 when Lincoln issued the document, the federal government had been freeing slaves for nearly a year and a half.

Tuesday, Mar 20 6:30p
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston
Robert Gearhart, Amy Borgens, Edward T. Cotham, Jr. In the fall of 2009, a team of marine archeologists working under the direction of the U.

Saturday, Mar 3 7:30a
San Jacinto Museum of History, La Porte
The San Jacinto Texas Independence Fun Run is a 5K certified course that runs inside the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Park.

Tuesday, Mar 27 6:30p
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston
Andrew Hall, The Denbigh Project In the closing months of the Civil War, long, low blockade runners slipped in and out of Texas ports, racing both to keep the Confederacy supplied, and to generate dramatic pro