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Texas History for Kids
Texas History for Kids is a podcast where young listeners explore the stories they didn’t hear about in school—from legendary battles and forgotten monuments to the strange, enchanted, and unexplained corners of the Lone Star State. New episodes air every Monday.
Texas History for Kids
Latest Episodes
Texas Museum Halloween: The Cursed Dress, Old Rip, and the Stolen Shrunken Head - 137
A wedding dress blamed for generations of heartbreak. A horned lizard said to have survived thirty-one years sealed inside a courthouse cornerstone. And a shrunken head stolen from a Texas museum—only to reappear seven weeks later in a plastic ...
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The Lost Lonestar Flag - 136
A teenage girl in Georgia created a white silk flag with a single blue star and sent it hundreds of miles away to the Texas Revolution. Follow the remarkable journey of Joanna Troutman’s lost Lone Star flag from Georgia to Velasco and Goliad, w...
Columbia: The Clues That Fell Over Texas - 135
When Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas in 2003, thousands of pieces scattered across the eastern part of the state. Follow the clues investigators used to uncover what went wrong—and discover how Texans helped solve one of NASA’s mo...
The Invisible Enemy that Reshaped Texas - 134
A faded quarantine card warned families to stay inside—but the danger was invisible. Discover how smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, an influenza reshaped Texas communities, from Spanish missions to early vaccination programs and the 1899 L...
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“Wait… You Could Mail a Kid?” - 133
People really did mail children—and one Texan helped put a stop to it. In this episode, we uncover why families used Parcel Post as transportation, how rural mail routes changed everyday life, and what this bizarre story teaches us about transp...
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