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It all started in 1929 when the stock market crashed and stock prices dropped so fast and so far that millions of people lost all their savings overnight. Banks closed. Jobs vanished. And the United States entered the worst economic crisis it had ever seen.

Now… add in the Dust Bowl—and things in Texas went from bad to worse. Today you'll learn :

✅ What life was really like in Texas during the Great Depression
✅ The creative—and quirky—ways Texans survived
✅ How this tough time changed Texas forever

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When you think of the Alamo, you might imagine brave soldiers, cannons, and the famous cry:

"Remember the Alamo!"

But did you know one of the most important people at the Alamo wasn’t a soldier at all — but a young woman with a baby in her arms? Her name was Susanna Dickinson, and she lived to tell the story of what happened inside those walls.

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There’s oil along the Texas coast because some of it comes naturally from deep underground, and some of it comes from human error like spills from deep water oil rigs we’ve built to collect it. It’s super old, super powerful, and super important—but also super complicated.

References

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/spindletop-oilfield

https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/oil-and-chemical-spills/oil-spills/resources/fingerprinting-oil.html

https://youtu.be/K-li3tABQzk?si=IVlrITRSvuG__T3j

https://youtu.be/vbl7QeqfE-Q?si=Pt7NbacFrwz9bUVM

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