Texas History Lessons
A Slow Walk Through Texas History
Texas History Lessons | Age Of Radio · Michael Sparkman
Show overview
Texas History Lessons has been publishing since 2020, and across the 6 years since has built a catalogue of 165 episodes, alongside 4 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 110 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 25 min and 47 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language History show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 weeks ago, with 18 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2022, with 43 episodes published. Published by Michael Sparkman.
From the publisher
Texas History Lessons is a slow walk through Texas history. It takes the time to learn about the many exciting and important people, places and events in Texas history, with a focus on some that are sometimes overlooked. So join in and time travel back to visit the amazing people and events that helped shape modern Texas and the world.
Latest Episodes
View all 165 episodesComanche Life and Customs according to Dot Babb
Dot Babb's Road Home - Part 5
Dot Babb's Comanche Memories Part 4
Mrs. Luster's Adventure according to Dot Babb
Ep 161Dot Babb's Comanche Memories: Part 2
This episode continues the story of the Babb children's journey into captivity with some additional information concerning attempts to rescue them. Do they dare to attempt an escape? Listen and find out! WARNING: This episode shares a story of extreme cruelty and violence perpetuated in the 1860s. Do not listen unless you are prepared for a graphic, but true, story of captivity. It also includes unacceptable pejoratives and epithets against Native peoples that were common for the time period. Text Version Available on Texas History Lessons Substack - Dot Babb's Memories of the Comanches Subscribe to the Texas History Lessons Substack for bonus material and help support the show. If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here! Website: texashistorylessons.com email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 160Dot Babb's Comanche Memories: Part 1
This episode introduces a new series focusing on the lives of Dot and Bianca Babb, two young children taken from their home on the Texas frontier and their subsequent life with the Comanche people. WARNING: This episode shares a story of extreme cruelty and violence perpetuated in the 1860s. Do not listen unless you are prepared for a graphic, but true, story of captivity. It also includes unacceptable pejoratives and epithets against Native peoples that were common for the time period. Text Version Available on Texas History Lessons Substack - Dot Babb's Memories of the Comanches Subscribe to the Texas History Lessons Substack for bonus material and help support the show. If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here! Website: texashistorylessons.com email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 159The Complete Narrative of the Captivity of Jane Wilson
This episode is provided for everyone who wants to hear the story of Jane Wilson, complete and uninterrupted. WARNING: This episode shares a story of extreme cruelty and violence perpetuated in the 1850. Do not listen unless you are prepared for a graphic, but true, story of captivity. It also includes unacceptable pejoratives and epithets against Native peoples that were common for the time period. Text Version Available on Texas History Lessons Substack - The Past Seems Like A Horrid Dream. Subscribe to the Texas History Lessons Substack for bonus material and help support the show. If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here! Website: texashistorylessons.com email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 158The Captivity of Jane Wilson Part 2
What happened to Jane Wilson? How did she survive, all alone, the harshness of the Texas plains. What happened to the brothers? In this episode we conclude Jane's personal narrative and dig even deeper to answer these questions and more. And the story of Mrs. Wilson and the boys is not just their survival tale. Another person survived their own terrible experience as well. Listen to hear more of this exciting tale! WARNING: This episode shares a story of extreme cruelty and violence perpetuated in the 1850. Do not listen unless you are prepared for a graphic, but true, story of captivity. It also includes unacceptable pejoratives and epithets against Native peoples that were common for the time period. Text Version Available on Texas History Lessons Substack - The Past Seems Like A Horrid Dream. Subscribe to the Texas History Lessons Substack for bonus material and help support the show. If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here! Website: texashistorylessons.com email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 157The Past Seemed Like a Horrid Dream The Captivity of Jane Adeline Smith Wilson
This episode shares the story of Jane Wilson's hard life, centered around the harsh experience of being taken captive by a group of Comanche people in the 1850s. WARNING: This episode shares a story of extreme cruelty and violence perpetuated in the 1850. Do not listen unless you are prepared for a graphic, but true, story of captivity. It also includes unacceptable pejoratives and epithets against Native peoples that were common for the time period. Text Version Available on Texas History Lessons Substack - The Past Seems Like A Horrid Dream. Subscribe to the Texas History Lessons Substack for bonus material and help support the show. If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here! Website: texashistorylessons.com email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 156The Enmity of the Comanches and the Texans
What a difference time and perspective can make on how we view things in the world! The goal of this post is to consider that opening line along with further introducing you to the work of Mary Austin Holley, give a peak into how people viewed Texas and the Comanches in the early 1830s, along with asking you to consider how our opinions and perspectives change over time. A tall task but I think you can do it.There's also a little bit on Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove. What did Larry think of the situation. And more importantly--how did Charles Goodnight deal with the Comanches and Kiowas and vice versa? Subscribe to the Texas History Lessons Substack for bonus material and help support the show. If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here! Website: texashistorylessons.com email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 155A Description of Texas from 1832
As the title suggests, this episode takes a look at a very complimentary description of Texas in 1832 that would entice even the most reluctant settler. Subscribe to the Texas History Lessons Substack for bonus material and help support the show. If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here! Website: texashistorylessons.com email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 153Lottie H. Hargrove's Texas History in Rhyme
This episode contains Lottie H. Hargrove's Texas History in Rhyme, complete and unabridged. The book was originally published in 1910. Subscribe to the Texas History Lessons Substack for bonus material and help support the show. If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here! Website: texashistorylessons.com email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 152Era of the State Part 2
This episode continues our look at Lottie H. Hargrove's Era of the State. Subscribe to the Texas History Lessons Substack for bonus material and help support the show. If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here! Website: texashistorylessons.com email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 151Era of the State Part 1
This episode covers the Sixth Era of Lottie H. Hargrove's Texas History in Rhyme, the Era of the State. It is part one for that era and covers the history of Texas from the time it became a state in the Union to 1870. Subscribe to the Texas History Lessons Substack for bonus material and help support the show. If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here! Website: texashistorylessons.com email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 150The Era of the Republic Part 2
This episode concludes Lottie H. Hargrove's Era of the Republic. Subscribe to the Texas History Lessons Substack for bonus material and help support the show. If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here! Website: texashistorylessons.com email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 149The Era of the Republic Part 1
This episode shares the first part of Lottie H. Hargrove's Era of the Republic. Subscribe to the Texas History Lessons Substack for bonus material and help support the show. If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here! Website: texashistorylessons.com email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Time never folds his unwearied wing
bonusHappy New Years wishes with a little bit about history and a little bit about the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 148The Era of Revolution
This episode continues our look at Lottie H. Hargrove's Texas History in Rhyme and her attempt to set the Era of Revolution down in verse. Subscribe to the Texas History Lessons Substack for bonus material and help support the show. If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here! Website: texashistorylessons.com email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Cowboy's Christmas Ball
This episode investigates what ties The Killers, Michael Martin Murphey, and the Poet Ranchman of Texas together. Here's a spoiler --its a poem titled The Cowboy's Christmas Ball. There's a few bonuses at the end as well. Subscribe to the Texas History Lessons Substack for bonus material and help support the show. If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here! Website: texashistorylessons.com email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 145The Cowboy's Road To Ruin
This episode looks again at the work of John Avery Lomax and the shift of the American cowboy from rustic hired hand to Texas and American icons. Subscribe to the Texas History Lessons Substack for bonus material and help support the show. If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here! Website: texashistorylessons.com email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices