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The Hidden History of Texas

Here is where you will find The Hidden History Of Texas podcast. The episodes cover Texas history from the earliest days of Indigenous peoples to Spanish exploration, control by Mexico, the Anglo’s take over, Texas becomes part of the U.S., the confederates move in, and back to the U.S. The audio files are accurate and try to tell the story as best as they can from all sides of the issues. The hidden history of Texas is a history replete with heroes and villains of all sorts. There were good and

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15:55

Before the Old Three Hundred: Who Would Move to Texas?

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2026/09/25

Imagine somebody knocks on your door.They've got an interesting proposition. Pack up your family. Sell what you can't carry. Leave your home. Travel hundreds of miles into a country you've probably never seen. The roads aren't really roads. There aren't many towns. There are no hospitals. No grocery stores. No police department. And once you arrive, you're pretty much on your own. But... There's land. A lot of land. And you can have some. There's just

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The Freedmen’s Bureau: The Promise and the Reality

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2026/09/15

Hello, and welcome to Political Realignment. I'm Hank Wilson.In our last episode, we stood with America at the end of the Civil War and asked a deceptively simple question: How do you rebuild a nation after it has been divided against itself? But there was another question—one that was perhaps even more difficult. Nearly four million people who had once been enslaved were now free. But what did freedom actually mean? It is easy, looking backward, to think of emancipation as an

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Pecos: West of the River

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2026/09/10

There are rivers that divide a landscape.And there are rivers that divide the imagination. In Texas, the Pecos managed to do both. For generations, the words West of the Pecos meant something. They meant you were leaving one world and entering another. A harder world. A drier world. A place where towns were separated by miles and miles of country that seemed determined to remind human beings that they were not necessarily in charge. Today, we can drive across that country in

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Episode 97: La Junta de los Ríos, Before There Was a...

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2026/08/25

La Junta de los Ríos, Before There Was a Border (Partial Transcript....)If you stand near Presidio, Texas, and look across the Rio Grande toward Ojinaga, Mexico, you're looking at a border. At least that's what the maps tell us. There is Texas on one side, Chihuahua on the other. The United States here. Mexico there. But if you could stand in that same place five hundred years ago, none of those things existed. There wasn't a Texas. There wasn't a United States. There

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6:24

A Nation Rebuilt

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2026/08/15

A Nation Rebuilt The war ended, but the constitutional questions had just begun. Hello, and welcome to Political Realignment. I'm Hank Wilson. I'd like to begin with a simple question. How do you rebuild a nation after it has been divided against itself? It's a question every generation hopes it will never have to answer. Yet in the spring of 1865, Americans found themselves facing exactly that challenge. After four long years of conflict, the fighting had ended. The Union had been

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From Frontier Forts to Frontier Towns: Fort Davis and...

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2026/08/03

Hello friends, and welcome back to Hidden History of Texas.Last time, we visited Alpine, a mountain community that showed us how people learned not simply to travel through West Texas, but to build permanent lives there. Today, we're visiting two communities whose very names remind us of their beginnings. Fort Davis. Fort Stockton. When we hear those names, it's natural to think about soldiers, cavalry patrols, and frontier forts. And certainly, those stories are important. But

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Episode 95 – Alpine: Where the Mountains Became Home

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2026/07/22

Episode 95 – Alpine: Where the Mountains Became HomeAlpine is often described as the gateway to Big Bend, but its story is far richer than that. In this episode of Hidden History of Texas, we explore a different question: Why did Alpine succeed where so many frontier settlements disappeared? Rather than focusing on dates and famous names, we trace the forces that shaped this remarkable mountain community. We examine how the geography of the Davis Mountains created a more hospitable

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The Frontier Forts: Guarding West Texas

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2026/07/16

Officers' row (ruins), looking west, before the National Park Service acquired Fort Davis National Historic Site. The Frontier Forts: Guarding West Texas Hello friends, and welcome back to Hidden History of Texas. Last time, we crossed the Pecos River and entered one of the most remarkable landscapes in our state, the Trans-Pecos. We discovered a Texas of mountains instead of rolling hills... deserts instead of forests... vast distances instead of crowded settlements. It is a

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Brown v. Board: The Cornerstone of Change

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2026/07/15

Brown v. Board: The Cornerstone of Change When we began this series, we started with the election of 1964. From there, we journeyed through 1968... 1972... 1976... and finally 1980. Each episode explored another chapter in America's political realignment. At first, those elections appeared to be separate stories. Different candidates. Different issues. Different moments in history. But as we followed the threads connecting one election to another, a question kept

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8:47

1980: Restoring Confidence

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2026/07/07

Welcome to another episode of The Political Realignment a Hidden History of Texas series How does a nation recover its confidence? That question hung over America in 1980. The Vietnam War was over. Watergate had moved from breaking news into history. The Bicentennial optimism of 1976 had faded. Inflation remained painfully high. Interest rates climbed. Gas lines and energy worries had shaken the confidence of ordinary families. And every night, the Iran hostage crisis reminded

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The Trans-Pecos: Texas Beyond the Mountains

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2026/07/05

Hello friends, and welcome back to Hidden History of Texas. This is episode 93 The Trans-Pecos: Texas Beyond the Mountains (NOTE: This is not a verbatim transcript) Last time, we visited El Paso, a city whose story began centuries before there was a Republic of Texas. It reminded us that Texas has never been just one history or one culture. Today, I'd like to take you somewhere that many Texans have heard of, but relatively few have truly explored. Where? The Trans-Pecos. Now, if you're

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5:50

1976 After Watergate

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2026/06/25

1976: After Watergate America celebrated its 200th birthday in 1976. The Bicentennial brought parades, fireworks, tall ships, patriotic ceremonies, and a renewed appreciation for the nation's remarkable history. Yet beneath the celebration lingered a different mood. Only two years earlier, Richard Nixon had become the first American president to resign from office. The Vietnam War had finally ended. The long national ordeal that had dominated more than a decade was over. But

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Episode 92 – El Paso: The Pass of the North…The Rio...

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2026/06/17

Hello friends, and welcome back to Hidden History of Texas. This is episode 92 – this is the first in a series I’m calling The Rio Grande Frontier – Welcome to El Paso: The Pass of the North When most people think about Texas history, their minds usually start in the east. They think of Nacogdoches, San Antonio, Austin's Colony, the Alamo, cattle drives, oil fields, and railroads. But today, I want us to start from the opposite direction. Let’s travel nearly six hundred miles west of

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1972: The Landslide That Changed America

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2026/06/16

History often remembers elections by who won and who lost. But some elections matter because they reveal deeper changes taking place beneath the surface. The election of 1972 was one of those moments. Many of us consider it to be the landslide that changed America. Those of us who witnessed that time period remember that only four years earlier, America had experienced one of the most turbulent periods in its history. The assassinations of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy,

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The Germans, Czechs, and the Making of Texas

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2026/06/11

The Germans, Czechs, and the Making of Texas I live in Central Texas in an area called the Hill Country. We have an old saying that if you drive far enough through the Hill Country, you’ll eventually find three things:a church steeple,a dance hall,and the smell of barbecue smoke drifting across the fields. But behind those familiar, almost stereotypical, Texas scenes lies a deeper story. A story carried across oceans by immigrants who arrived with little more than trunks, tools, family

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1968: The Year America Came Apart

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2026/06/09

Welcome to 1968: The Year America Came Apart. This is an episode of "The Realignment" a Hidden History Series. There are years in history that feel less like ordinary time and more like a fault line. Years where the ground beneath a nation begins to shift and the people can feel it, they may not understand what they’re feeling, but they know something is changing.. For America, 1968 was one of those years. The country had already been changing throughout the 1960s. The Civil Rights

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7:55

1964: The Breaking Point…

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2026/05/20

1964: The Breaking Point...How a Texas President Helped Reshape American Politics ForeverThere are years in American history that feel less like moments… and more like fault lines. 1964 was one of them. It was the year the old political order began to crack. Not overnight.Not all at once.But in ways we are still living with today. And at the center of it all stood a Texan. Lyndon B. Johnson Growing up in Texas, Lyndon Johnson was never just another historical figure to

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Episode 89 After Sundown: The Hidden Geography of...

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2026/05/13

Welcome to Episode 89 of The Hidden History of Texas. After Sundown: The Hidden Geography of Fear in TexasTonight, we’re stepping onto a highway most history books barely mention. A road traveled in silence…A road traveled with caution…And sometimes, a road traveled in fear. This episode is called: “After Sundown: The Hidden Geography of Fear in Texas.” We’re going to talk about Sundown Towns…The Green Book…And the hidden map Black Texans and Black travelers carried in their minds

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Episode 88 – From Reconstruction to DEI: The Long Arc...

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2026/04/29

Episode 88 – From Reconstruction to DEI: The Long Arc of Race Relations in TexasHello folks, I’m Hank Wilson and welcome to Episode 88 of the Hidden History of Texas. This is Episode 88 - From Reconstruction to DEI: The Long Arc of Race Relations in Texas In this episode I’m going to talk about a subject that a lot of folks like to avoid. That is the subject of race and race relations in Texas History. The story of the struggle that both African Americans and Mexican Americans faced in

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Episode 87 – The Towns the Company Owned

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2026/04/04

Episode 87 of the Hidden History of Texas - The Towns the Company OwnedThere was a time in East Texas…when you could live your entire life…without ever leaving the reach of a single company. They built your house. They paid your wages. They sold you your food. They taught your children…and sometimes… they buried your dead. These were the company towns of East Texas places that don’t always show up in the history books…but helped build the state as we know it. The Piney Woods

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