The American History Podcast, Season 2, Episode 12, Texas, Part 1. Welcome to the American History Podcast, hosted by Sean Morswick.

Okay, so welcome back.

First, let me apologize for putting this episode out a little bit late.

It couldn't be helped thanks to the fact that life has interfered with my ability to write episodes.

I'll not bore you with the details, but while this episode is a little bit late, the next one or the next few should be on time.

I'll talk about that in a moment.

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Okay, so this episode is coming out about a week or so later than originally planned.

Part of the reason is that I spent eight days in Salt Lake City reading a ton of AP World History essays,

and when I came back, I was just exhausted.

So I wasn't able to get the episode written quickly enough

to record and release by the 15th of

June.

Secondly, I had a bit of writer's block, so that made it doubly difficult.

And finally, I recently did the first anniversary episode, which is a joint episode with myself

and the host of the Age of Victoria podcast, Chris Fernandez Peckham.

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