Texas History Lessons
Texas History Lessons is a podcast about Texas history and much more. History is an important area of study and it is fun. While most of the focus will, of course, be on Texas, I feel that any endeavor to study a place or a people is lacking if you do not have a proper context for what was happening elsewhere in the region, country, continent, and all over the world. It provides perspective. The study of Texas history is the study of a place and of people, and all of the people that have ever lived in Texas have come from somewhere else and have ties to other places and cultures. No whitewashing the past in this podcast. Real Texas History.
Recent Episodes
The First Dogs!
Feb. 24, 2021
Several thousand years ago, man’s best friend crossed over from Asia with the intrepid hunters that…
This Month in Texas History - February
Feb. 1, 2021
February might be the shortest month of the year but it is packed with important events in Texas hi…
Lesson 13: Texas and America in 1491
Jan. 26, 2021
In this episode we end Season 1 with a look at life in Texas and North America before European cont…
This Month In Texas History - January
Jan. 1, 2021
A new monthly episode from Texas History Lessons-This Month in Texas History! Mark these days on yo…
Lesson 12: The Caddos of East Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana
Dec. 23, 2020
This episode explores the early history of the Caddo Confederacies and their fascinating connection…
The Atakapa Ishak of East Texas and Southwest Louisiana's Gulf Coast
Dec. 10, 2020
This episode looks at the lifestyle and livelihood of the Atakapa Ishak, a coastal indigenous peopl…
Recent Blog Posts
Additional Information on the Jumanos provided by Makowa De
It's a pleasure to share a couple of bits of information shared by a Jumano historian, Makowa De: 1. I enjoyed lesson 9 obviously. I do want to ma…
Why Study History?
History Lets look at the uses and nature of history again, as we briefly did in the very first Texas History Lesson. History is a good source of pe…