Waco History Podcast
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Episodes: 187
Description
Dr. Stephen Sloan of Baylor’s Institute for Oral History and Department of History explores the people, places, and stories that have shaped Waco, Texas.
Through interviews, local-history insights, and narrative storytelling, the podcast highlights both well-known events and lesser-told community histories—helping listeners learn more about Waco and its place in broader Texas history.
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Waco 175 Finale at Vitek's BBQ!
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Waco 175 Live Event At Vitek's BBQ!
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Waco 175: 2000 to 2025 Number 1
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Waco 175: 2000 to 2025 Number 2
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Waco 175: 2000 to 2025 Number 3
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 2000 to 2025 Number 4
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 2000 to 2025 Number 5
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1975 to 2000 Number 1
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1975 to 2000 Number 2
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1975 to 2000 Number 3
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1975 to 2000 Number 4
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1975 to 2000 Number 5
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1950 to 1975 Number 1
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1950 to 1975 Number 2
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1950 to 1975 Number 3
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1950 to 1975 Number 4
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1950 to 1975 Number 5
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1925 to 1950: Number 1
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1925 to 1950: Number 2
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1925 to 1950: Number 3
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1925 to 1950 Number 4
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1925 to 1950: Number 5
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1900 to 1925: Number 1
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1900 to 1925: Number 2
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1900 to 1925: Number 3
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1900 to 1925: Number 4
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1900 to 1925: Number 5
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1875 to 1900: Number 1
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1875 to 1900: Number 2
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1875 to 1900: Number 3
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1875 to 1900: Number 4
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1875 to 1900: Number 5
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1850 to 1875: Number 1
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May 28, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1850 to 1875: Number 2
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May 22, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1850 to 1875: Number 3
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May 14, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1850 to 1875: Number 4
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May 07, 2025 |
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Waco 175: 1850 to 1875: Number 5
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Waco History Podcast: Waco 175 – The New Season Opener
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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"Banking in Waco: A History with David Lacy"
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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What's New with Waco History with Katie Chakmakjian
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Rich Field
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Free Time
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Living Stories: On-the-Job Cold Weather Stories
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Getting to and From School
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Pawn Shops
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Getting into Trouble
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Bullies
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Summertime Swimming
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Summer Jobs in the 1940s
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May 29, 2024 |
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REWIND: The Waco Tornado
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May 22, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Childhood Memories of Cameron Park
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May 08, 2024 |
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Living Stories: First Black Teachers in White Schools
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May 02, 2024 |
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McLennan County Courthouse History with Justice Matt Johnson
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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A History of Historic Waco (Foundation) with Erik Swanson and Eric Ames
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Waco... A Fantastical History with Ashley Bean Thornton
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Waco Civic Theater: A History with Kelly MacGregor
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Living Stories: The ALICO Building
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Newspapers during the Great Depression
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Waco and Flowers
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Early Telephone Service in Waco
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Wacoan First in Flight? WD Custead with Rick Tullis
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Waco Fire: A History with Sean Sutcliffe
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Changes in Basketball
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Engagements and Weddings - Keeping it Simple
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Early Automobiles
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Policing Waco: A History with Ryan Holt Part 2
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Living Stories: New Faces and Experiences on Passenger Trains
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Living Stories: Camp MacArthur
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Living Stories: 1950s Drought
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Policing Waco: A History with Ryan Holt Part 1
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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The Case and Execution of Roy Mitchell Part 3 with John Kamenec
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Measles and Rubella
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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The Case and Execution of Roy Mitchell Part 2 with John Kamenec
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Food Products from a Hog-killing
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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The Case and Execution of Roy Mitchell Part 1 with John Kamenec
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Junior High and Middle School
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Electric Interurban Railways
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Restaurant Sit-ins
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Crossroads Series Episode 15: Revisiting the Crossroads
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Crossroads Series Episode 14: Illegal Crossings Part 2: Crime in Waco’s History with Sheriff Parnell McNamara
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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History Buildings of Waco with Dr. Kenneth Hafertepe: Part 2
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Crossroads Series Episode 13: Illegal Crossings Part I: Crime in Waco’s History with Sheriff Parnell McNamara
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Insect Pests
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Crossroads Series Episode 12: Entertaining Crossings Part III: Movies & TV with Dr. Chris Hansen and Carl Hoover
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Memories of Prohibition
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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The Infamous Chicken Ranch with Jayme Lynn Blaschke
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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History Buildings of Waco with Dr. Kenneth Hafertepe: Part I
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Summer Water and Beach Activities
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Evangelia Settlement with Buck Cole
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Home Remedies
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Crossroads Series Episode 11: Entertaining Crossings Part II: People
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Living Stories: 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Crossroads Series Episode 10: Entertaining Crossings Part I: History of Spaces for Entertainment with Fiona Bond
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Living Stories: YMCA and YWCA
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Crossroads Series Episode 9: Commercial Crossings: History of Business in Waco with Kris Collins
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Graduating from a School Campus
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Crossroads Series Episode 8: School Crossings Part II: Education in Waco with Ashley Cruseturner and Marlene McMichael
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May 31, 2023 |
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Waco History Rewind: Dr. Kenna Lang Archer, author of "Unruly Waters: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River"
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May 24, 2023 |
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Crossroads Series Episode 7: School Crossings Part I: Waco as Athens of Texas
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May 17, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Spring Traditions
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May 11, 2023 |
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Crossroads Series Episode 6: Climate Crossings: Weather and Waco with Brady Taylor
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May 03, 2023 |
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Archiving Hate in Waco: The Horace Sherman Miller Collection with Benna Vaughan
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Crossroads Series: Episode 5: Martial Crossings: Waco and the Military with Mike Parrish
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Madison Cooper
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Crossroads Series: Episode 4 - Civic Crossings: Politics in Waco with Mayor Dillon Meek
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Living Stories: The Circus
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Crossroads Series: Episode 3 – Goal-line Crossings: Sport in Waco with John Morris
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Dr. Pepper Museum - The People Who Made Dr. Pepper LIVE
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Crossroads Series: Episode 2 – First Crossings: Early History
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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The Immortal Ten: The Definitive Account of the 1927 Tragedy and Its Legacy at Baylor University with Todd Copeland
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Crossroads Series: Episode 1 – Waco as Crossroads
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Living Stories: The Cotton Palace
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Living Stories: 1936 Waco Flood
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Train Travel through Young Eyes
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Chasing Police Calls
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Living Stories: 1972 Accreditation of Paul Quinn College
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Baylor Student Veterans
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Working in Clothing Factories (Textiles)
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Living Stories: Madison Cooper
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Living Stories: Why They Give
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Living Stories: Christmas Gifts in the Great Depression
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Living Stories: Ku Klux Klan
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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That Last Relic of Barbarism: History of Lynching with Rev. Dr. Malcolm Foley
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Living Stories: Ghost of South Tenth Street
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Living Stories: Nineteenth Amendment
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Living Stories: Hog Killing Time
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Hunting History: Pursuing the Past with Dr. Bracy Hill
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Living Stories: Pirate Radio
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Living Stories: Hobos
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Living Stories: Moonshine
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Living Stories: ICE
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Living Stories: The Harley Berg Show
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Sojourn in Sironia: Madison Cooper’s Scandalous and Epic “Waco?” Novel with Dr. Jim SoRelle
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Living Stories: Early School Memories
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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For the Good of All: History of Local Poverty, Mission Waco, and Church under the Bridge with Jimmy Dorrell
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Living Stories: Fighting the Heat at Night in the Summertime
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Big Local Story: The Waco Mammoths with Calvin Smith and Paul Barron
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Welcoming the Stranger: History of Waco Hotels with Ashley Bean Thorton
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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The Original Wacoans: James “Derek” Ross on the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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The Freedom Foundation with C. Cullen Smith
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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How Waco got Cool with Rick Tullis
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Feb 26, 2022 |
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Robert Fairbanks Former Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington on Urban Development
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Waco History Podcast LIVE: Dr. Pepper Museum - Sit Down to Take a Stand with Cherry Boggess
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Cameron Park Series - Larry Simms Former Park Ranger
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Kenna Lang Archer - Cameron Park Series
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Mark Firmin - Cameron Park Series
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Dr. Michael Parrish - Baylor University's Commission on Historic Campus Representations
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Waco's Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Clint Lynch with the Oakwood Cemetery Association
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May 12, 2021 |
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The Baylor University Live Mascot Program
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Former City Manager Larry Groth Part 2
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Former City Manager Larry Groth Part 1
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Randy's last Waco History Podcast
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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How Railroads Shaped Waco
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Building Waco: Architect Milton Scott
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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The Supernatural Story of Mabel Legg
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Hidden History of Waco
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Baseball in Waco
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Waco and the Wild Wired West: The End of the Chisholm Trail
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Waco's Invisible Icon: Tom Wilson
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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Waco's brief world record: tree sitting
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Waco's Legend Bearer: Helen Marie Taylor
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May 25, 2020 |
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Waco's Voice: Jules Bledsoe
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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Waco's 9/11 response
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Prohibition in Waco: Live Podcast Recording
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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Waco's First Troll: William Cowper Brann
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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Waco's Most Jailed Doctor: Charles Lemly
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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The Crash at Crush: Waco's deadliest publicity stunt
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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The White Primary: Waco History Podcast
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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Historic Homes Short: The Austin Estate
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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Historic Waco Homes
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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The Waco Tornado
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Jun 08, 2019 |
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The Brazos: Waco's River
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May 11, 2019 |
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Waco During the Civil War
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Stephen on Downtown Depot
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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East Waco: Past, Present, and Future
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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Prehistoric Waco: 200 Million Years Ago
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Elvis in Waco
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Haunted Waco 2: Ghost Hunting with Cindy Little
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Dec 17, 2018 |
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College Football and Murder
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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Waco's Legal Red-Light District: The Reservation
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Haunted Waco: Waco's Supernatural Stories
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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Waco During World War I
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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Waco's Hometown Hero: Doris Miller
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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Waco's Photographer: Fred A. Gildersleeve
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Sep 14, 2018 |
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What is the Waco History Podcast?
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Sep 14, 2018 |