Real Cool History for Kids

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Note: please use the Official Request Form linked at the top of my website (angelaodell.com) to submit podcast episode requests! All requests must come through that form. Thank you! Real Cool History for Kids tells amazing stories from history, from a Biblical worldview perspective. Hey, kids, do you like stories about weird, cool, and just plain awesome events and people in history? If you do, you're going to love this podcast show! From creepy abandoned places all over the world to little-known facts about well-known people in history, Angela O'Dell, author of the history series, America's Story and The World's Story, brings you new episodes of Real Cool History just for kids, twice a month.

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Recent Episodes
  • The Story of King Tutankhamun (a special episode for Olivia Giesbrecht)
    Apr 21, 2025 – 17:32
  • The Story of Bethany Hamilton (a special episode for Heidi Wambolt)
    Apr 7, 2025 – 16:10
  • The Adventures of Kit Carson (a special episode for Thaddeus Cain)
    Mar 24, 2025 – 15:38
  • Dolley Madison Saves a Painting (a special episode for Elsie Rabideau)
    Mar 10, 2025 – 14:37
  • The Story of the Great Chicago Fire (a special episode for Josiah Dekuiper)
    Feb 24, 2025 – 14:36
  • The Story of the Star Spangled Banner (a special episode for Nate & Nick Wright)
    Feb 10, 2025 – 14:37
  • Amazing Women of WW 2 (a special episode for Brooke Leffers)
    Jan 27, 2025 – 18:09
  • The Dinosaurs of the Bible (a special episode for Luke Sego)
    Jan 13, 2025 – 19:47
  • Ida Lewis - the Lighthouse Keeper (a special episode for Emelie Smith)
    Dec 30, 2024 – 16:04
  • Yes, Mary Knew! (a Special Christmas Story for Isla and Zeke Sindelar)
    Dec 16, 2024 – 17:38
  • The Oregon Trail (a special episode for Anderson Homan)
    Dec 2, 2024 – 20:47
  • The Story of Lady Liberty (the Statue of Liberty) (A special episode for the John and Jacob Dorsey)
    Nov 18, 2024 – 20:20
  • The Story of Oliver Cromwell (a special episode for the Beach Kids)
    Nov 4, 2024 – 16:01
  • The Adventures of Sergeant Stubby (a special episode for Sofia Buentello)
    Oct 21, 2024 – 15:29
  • The Great Depression (a Special Episode for Sophie Stevenson)
    Oct 7, 2024 – 18:31
  • Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady (a special episode for Maggie Tweeten)
    Sep 23, 2024 – 16:30
  • David Livingstone's Inspirational Life (a special episode for Elianna Green)
    Sep 9, 2024 – 18:22
  • Brother Andrew, God's Bible Smuggler (a special episode for Seely and Manoah Baerg)
    Aug 26, 2024 – 17:07
  • The Story of Johnny Appleseed (A special episode for Josiah Shadel)
    Aug 12, 2024 – 16:10
  • Virginia Hall - World War 2 SPY! (a special episode for Lilly Belle Keeton)
    Jul 29, 2024 – 15:26
  • The Faith, Hope, and Love of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot (a special episode for Jacob Gerringer)
    Jul 15, 2024 – 17:00
  • Wild Horse Annie Saves the Mustangs (a special episode for Kenna Manley)
    Jul 1, 2024 – 19:24
  • The Story of the Irish Potato Famine (a special episode for Gabriel Webb)
    Jun 17, 2024 – 18:28
  • The Adventures of Marco Polo (a special episode for Mary Bai)
    Jun 3, 2024 – 16:57
  • Queen Elizabeth II and her family (a special episode for Abbey Beaza)
    May 20, 2024 – 20:11
  • The Uncommon Courage of Sergeant Alvin York (a special episode for Mary Frigaard)
    May 6, 2024 – 15:16
  • Gladys Aylward's Child-like Faith (a special episode for Mila Sharratt)
    Apr 22, 2024 – 19:40
  • The Sad Story of the Last Tsar's Family (a special episode for Eliana Claxton)
    Apr 8, 2024 – 19:51
  • The Ridiculously Strange Story of King Henry VIII (a special episode for Lennin Burt)
    Mar 25, 2024 – 20:24
  • The Story of Bass Reeves - the real Lone Ranger? (a special episode for Clara Kimmel)
    Mar 11, 2024 – 15:06
  • The Story of Ruth (a special episode for Lileigh Boggs)
    Feb 26, 2024 – 18:49
  • The Story of Robin Hood (a special episode for Isaiah and Benjamin Falmagne)
    Feb 12, 2024 – 14:39
  • Clara Barton - Angel of the Battlefield (a special episode for Eva Duer)
    Jan 29, 2024 – 16:20
  • Stonewall Jackson and William T. Sherman (a special episode for Lucy Fancis)
    Jan 15, 2024 – 15:07
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe - Author and Abolitionist (a special episode for Ben Richmond)
    Jan 1, 2024 – 13:56
  • Robert E. Lee, the (real) Man Without a Country (a special episode for Emma Hurley)
    Dec 18, 2023 – 13:39
  • Civil War Submarines and Hot Air Balloons (a special episode of ro Joey and Caleb Mueller)
    Dec 4, 2023 – 17:24
  • Abraham Lincoln, Leader Extraordinaire (A special episode for Abram Nachtigal)
    Nov 20, 2023 – 16:24
  • Our Divided Country - the Beginning of the Civil War (A special episode for Cora Collins)
    Nov 6, 2023 – 18:13
  • The story of David and Goliath (A special episode for Everley & Renaeley Chiveral)
    Oct 23, 2023 – 17:39
  • The Brilliant Thomas Edison (a special episode for the Mueller family)
    Oct 9, 2023 – 17:16
  • Abandoned Places - Amusement Parks (a special episode for Caleb, Jacob, and Isaac Abbott)
    Sep 25, 2023 – 16:24
  • The True Story of Blackbeard and Other Pirates (a special episode for Easton Greter)
    Sep 11, 2023 – 18:17
  • The Inventive Life of Benjamin Franklin (a special episode for for Armanno, Arrow and Alessio Mancini)
    Aug 28, 2023 – 17:04
  • Young George Washington (a special episode for Wallace Kelsay)
    Aug 14, 2023 – 14:36
  • The Story of Alexander Hamilton (a special episode for Emerson Kumakura)
    Jul 31, 2023 – 16:00
  • Spies of the American Revolution (A special episode for Liberty Clark)
    Jul 17, 2023 – 16:48
  • Stopping Hitler's Atomic Dreams (A special episode for Savannah, Katie, Owen, Gabriel, Rachelle, and Rick)
    Jul 3, 2023 – 14:49
  • The Story of Ernest Shackleton (a special episode for Evan Knutowski)
    Jun 19, 2023 – 18:24
  • The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (a special episode for Layanna Velasquez)
    Jun 5, 2023 – 17:54
Recent Reviews
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    Hello Mrs, O’Dell My name is Thomas Grantland I’m 11years old.My birthday is October 12th 2013,and I love your work it’s so mentally imaging, and emotional for the watchers and history makers\changers such as president Obama who found 9\11.Thank you all of historians to make a better place❤️🪽🕊️PS can you please make the story of George Washington?
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    Hi! My name is Savannah and I absolutely LOVE your podcast. I’m 9 years old and I listen to this podcast all the time. This is one of my favorite podcasts. I especially like that it’s all history, and some of my favorite episodes are Bethany Hamilton, Amazing Women of WWll, and Dolly Madison Saves a Painting. I have a lot of other favorites, but these are some of them. Please keep up the good work! Savannah W.
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    Hello Mr.s O’Dell my name is Annalise and I am 10 years old and my birthday is August 22 and I love the channel and my family is Christian and love ❤️ your videos and I am a history buff and love to learn about the black plague what you’re doing and keeping going you are doing great 😊
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    Hello my name is Kaija we love your podcasts I just wrote a paper on Joan of arc is it possible you could do one on her she is an amazing character in history
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    Hi my name is Canyon I absolutely love this podcast thank you for a biblical view of history keep up the good work and could you pleas do one about Walt Disney🏰👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🫶🏼
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    I really like the show, but could you change the picture. A.I. is a bit too much for me
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    What a wonderful and inspiring podcast!
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    Hi Mrs. O’Dell! I was wondering if you could do an episode on of Walt Disney (PS: or Cleopatra.) -🫶🏻 Love, Lucy
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    Hi, I’m Zaylee. I am 10 years old and I like to listen to podcasts before going to bed each night. I love your podcast. Please keep doing more.😀🥰❤️ I try to listen to it 24-7 but I have school. And I love that you do about history. And I was wondering if you could do one about Louis Braille
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    Hi I am Hartley I am thirteen years old and I love history! This podcast makes history so much better. Thank you for being such an amazing story teller and for making this podcast.
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    Hi my name is Natalie. I am 10 years old and I love your podcast,God and history. Can you please do an episode about Marie Antoinette and Louis Zamperini?
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    Cool
    Interesting podcast and a good history lesson
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    This is really cool HIStory 4 kids!!!I love how u put together history with god.by the way, can u do a episode on Esther?????
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    Thank you so much for doing this podcast I am 10 years old and I like to listen to this past school
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    Hi! I’m Julia and I just turned 11. This is my absolute favorite podcast!!! I listen to it ALL the time! I wonder why my mom won’t let me use this podcast for history in school!?! (I’m homeschooled) Thanks a bazillion for making my favorite subject even better!!! With Admiration, Julia G.L.
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    I love this podcast because it glorifies God and I love history. I’m Skye (12) I listen to your podcast with my sisters, Zaylee (10),Harper (7) Jayde (4) Jayde sometimes runs off but we love this SO much. Thank you!
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    Hey my name is Evelyn I I’m 8I love your videos so much. Thank you so very much I hope you make more
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    Please make a episode about the battle of the bulge
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    Thank you for making Real Cool History. Can you make one about Mary Ingalls?
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    Hi my name is Kimberly I have dyslexia. It is hard for me to spell. But your podcast made me think I can do anything.Can you do a podcast on this is the title, My America Our Strange New Land, Elizabeths Diary Jamestown Virginia 1609.
  • More WW2 episodes
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    Please do an episode about Winston Churchill or young Hitler
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    Hi! I’m Natalie and I love your podcast! I’m 12 years old. Thank you for all the hard work you put into these episodes! Could you do an episode about the history of service dogs? Thanks!
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    Honestly, I love this podcast. Each one is my favorite. I love to use these stories to fall asleep thank you so much.
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    Luv your podcast
    Can you do one about Harriet Tubman?
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    We are the Young family and are family love to listen to your podcasts! We did not know that there were so many cool stories in our history! We love that they are faith based .And some of are favorite podcasts are the abandoned places and Irena Sendler Thank you so much for putting these podcasts on!!
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    I love this podcast so because Angela makes history fun! I’ve learned so many new things and heard so many new stories that I have never even heard of!⭐️⭐️⭐️
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    Please
    Could you please do an episode on Oliver Cromwell
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    Dominic’s review
    Hi, I’m Dominic I am 11 years old and I really love this podcast. Can you make an episode about Jane Goodall? I am studying her in school and writing an essay about her. Thank you for the great stories of history.
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    Make more
    Can you make Spanish civil war episode.
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