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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.
Podcasting since 2023 • 89 episodes
Texas History for Kids
Latest Episodes
Episode 88 - Grand Saline: Salty Texas Town
Did you know there's a town in Texas built on top of a mountain of salt? Welcome to Grand Saline, a small town with a big secret underneath the ground—a giant salt dome that’s deeper than Mount Everest is tall!
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Episode 87 - Compromise of 1850
In the mid-1800s, the United States was growing fast. After winning the Mexican-American War in 1848, the U.S. gained a huge amount of land—territories that would later become California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and parts of Colorado...
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Episode 86 - Why Texas Banned Cell Phones at School
This episode explores House Bill 1481, the 2025 Texas law banning cell phone use in public schools including how laws are made, why this one matters, and what it means for their daily lives.
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Episode 85 - Great Depression and Dust Bowl
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 h...
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Episode 84 - Susanna Dickinson Alamo Messenger
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 ...
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