Stacey Brahm

An inside view to the Galveston hurricane of 1900.

Change in climate influenced human societies during the Middle Ages in Europe.

This explains why Anglos failed to central Texas until the late 1800's. The Comanche were fearful masters of their land.

Much about life in the South didn't change for African Americans after the Civil War. They moved to northern cities for freedom, a new life for their children, and jobs. Did they find what they were looking for?

Failed societies have several things in common: debt, misuse of natural resources, and unwillingness to make necessary adjustments to prevent disaster.

Evidence strongly suggests that neither the Vikings nor Columbus were the first to 'discover' America!

What would it be like to sail away from land with limited water and food supplies not knowing when you would find more land?

Much about life in the South didn't change for African Americans after the Civil War. They moved to northern cities for freedom, a new life for their children, and jobs. Did they find what they were looking for?

You leave home in a light coat to walk a half an hour to your rural school. Suddenly as it is time to walk back home at the end of the day, a blizzard hits, snow begins to blow, and the temperature drops to well below freezing. Could you survive when hundreds of other children didn't?

What made the Europeans so advanced that they could conquer much of the world? Superior culture? Awesome people? Nope, only the luck of living where they did- geography!