Texas History for Kids

About 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.

Publisher

Michelle Gallegos

Category

education · history · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Nov 2023

Latest episode

6 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

170 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Jul 2026

   127 - Big Bend: The Park at the End of the Road

   Let me know what you thought of this podcast! Send a text. Big Bend National Park may look like a quiet desert, but its mountains, river, trails, and ruins hold thousands of years of history. In this episode, we uncover the stories of Indigenous peoples, Mexican settlers, ranchers, miners, soldiers, and Civilian Conservation Corps workers who shaped the land long before it became a national park. Follow the mystery of a rusted pickaxe and discover how Big Bend became one of Texas’s m...

2. 

   29 Jun 2026

   126 - The Name Beneath the Map: Juan Seguín and the Texas Revolution

   Let me know what you thought of this podcast! Send a text. Who was Juan Seguín, and why was a Texas town named in his honor? Today we follow this Tejano leader from the streets of San Antonio to the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto as we uncover his important—and complicated—role in the Texas Revolution. Sources "Juan Seguín," Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Treasures of History series (tsl.texas.gov)The Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Lib...

3. 

   15 Jun 2026

   125 - The Mountain of Bones

   Let me know what you thought of this podcast! Send a text. When you think of treasure in the Old Western times of Texas, you might think of oil, cattle, land. But for a few crucial years in the early 1880s, the most valuable thing lying around the Texas plains was the skeleton of a dead buffalo. In this episode we discover what happened to the remains of millions of buffalo that were brought to the bring of extinction. Source: https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/bone-busi...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 52 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

91

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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