A quick history tells the stories of history and mystery in a quick and orderly, also entertaining fashion.
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The show about American history…on the go!
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The Second Battle of Bull Run kicks off with a demoted Union general, and a chance for the North to redeem themselves…spoiler alert, they don’t.Av Patrick Brooks
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The Confiscation Act gets bigger and badder…and George McClellan is still….mehhh.Av Patrick Brooks
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Robert E. Lee has a breakfast of champions…Hard Tack…and then comes out swinging in the Seven Days Battles of the Civil War.Av Patrick Brooks
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In war, nobody wins…one side just loses more slowly. The bloodiest battle of not just the Civil War, but any American military engagement up to that point takes place in Pittsburgh Landing, Tennessee. It’s the Battle of Shiloh.Av Patrick Brooks
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The Navies of the Civil War go heavy metal!Av Patrick Brooks
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Abraham Lincoln fills his cabinet with people that disagreed with him…because the Union is bigger than just one dude.Av Patrick Brooks
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Who do you want to have a beer with? Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis…The time there were two Commanders in Chief within our borders during the Civil War…Av Patrick Brooks
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The beginning of 1862 is action packed, the Union strikes back!Av Patrick Brooks
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In the North corner…it’s George McClellan, and in the South, Robert E. Lee…Ready, fight!Av Patrick Brooks
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Harriet Tubman and the abolitionist movement is full steam ahead with the Underground Railroad in the fight against slavery. As the Civil War chugs along, the Union fires a legal shot at the Confederacy with the Confiscation Act.Av Patrick Brooks
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The first real confrontation of the American Civil War kicks off near the town of Manassas, and only a stone’s throw from Washington D.C. It’s the battle of Bull Run.Av Patrick Brooks
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Arlington Cemetery will become our nation’s most hallowed ground…but first, it will be the most strategic ground to protect Washington D.C. And, as an unintended FU to the future general of the confederacy, it’s on Robert E. Lee’s family land.Av Patrick Brooks
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The Civil War revolutionized how battles were fought. From guns and bullets to the telegraph and railroads…America is the leader in technology, but these weapons of war prove especially devastating when Americans use them against each other.Av Patrick Brooks
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As Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th President of America…states have already begun to secede and join the confederacy. The Civil War has begun.Av Patrick Brooks
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Abraham Lincoln is the Big Buck of This Lick! He and the new Republican Party set out to oppose slavery, just as the Supreme Court doubles down with one of their worst decisions…the Dred Scott case.Av Patrick Brooks
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Tensions are mounting between political parties and the northern and southern states. The powder keg is about to explode.Av Patrick Brooks
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You Go Girl! Seneca Falls Convention 63
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The feminine frontier has begun! Women want their voices heard at the ballot box…and they’re gonna get it!Av Patrick Brooks
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There’s gold in them there hills! Gold is struck in California! We’re gonna get rich…or, at least a few dudes are.Av Patrick Brooks
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California roars towards independence! It’s the Bear Flag Revolt.Av Patrick Brooks
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Chuck Norris makes Texas a state, then he fights a war…on his own.Av Patrick Brooks
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The future of the Texas hangs in the balance…as tensions explode, so do the cannons. The fighting kicks off at the Alamo, with folk legend Davy Crockett. It doesn’t turn out so well for him, but everyone will Remember the Alamo!Av Patrick Brooks
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Westside is the best side…Unless you died of dysentery along the way. #OregonTrail. Manifest Destiny broadens the horizons of the young United States, but there’s a dark side to westward expansion.Av Patrick Brooks
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The American government wages war on Native Americans and the banks…at the behest of Andrew Jackson. The Trail of Tears becomes one of America’s darkest stories.Av Patrick Brooks
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A real S.O.B. whether you like him or hate him…the Age of Jackson has begun.Av Patrick Brooks
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Electoral College V. Popular Vote and the Election of 1824 55
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What does Corruption, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Electoral College have in common? They’re all corrupt. Tune in!Av Patrick Brooks
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America is feelin’ good-ish! We are talking national unity, the Monroe Doctrine, and the elephant in the room tearing the country apart…slavery.Av Patrick Brooks
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Florida is open territory for Andrew Jackson to deal a hand…or three.Av Patrick Brooks
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Nat Turner hopes to change the tides of one of America’s biggest skeletons in the closet, slavery.Av Patrick Brooks
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The Industrial Revolution changes the nation, but it’s fueled by blood, sweat, tears, and coal.Av Patrick Brooks
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Old Hickory makes history in the most tragic battle of the War of 1812.Av Patrick Brooks
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In an unparalleled dick move…The British burn Washington to the ground.Av Patrick Brooks
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Rising Tension and Old Tippecanoe (War of 1812) 48
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War with England part two…Av Patrick Brooks
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The United States Marines plant the first American flag on foreign soil as another war brews at home.Av Patrick Brooks
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Conflict resolution at its finest…à la, Hamilton and Burr…Av Patrick Brooks
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This expedition could be titled, “Sacagawea and Lewis and Clark.” Learn why…Av Patrick Brooks
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The Corps of Discovery prepares to boldly explore where no American dude or dudette has gone before.Av Patrick Brooks
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The United States “supersizes” itself.Av Patrick Brooks
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The Supreme Court of the United States grows a pair of cajones during the landmark case of Marbury v. Madison.Av Patrick Brooks
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If anyone knows how to talk $#i%, it’s a politician. Jefferson and Adams started it.Av Patrick Brooks
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In California, a king still rules from Spain as land is stolen from Native Americans.Av Patrick Brooks
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Whiskey and taxes…a dangerous combination.Av Patrick Brooks
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The main man, George Washington, takes his place in American history once again as our first president.Av Patrick Brooks
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The Story of the Bill of Rights…Told by a Fish! 37
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The first ten amendments to the constitution make up a story. Listen in to hear it told during a day in the life of a wrongfully accused fish.Av Patrick Brooks
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An oh so quick and dirty synopsis of the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.Av Patrick Brooks
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Our founding fathers got the pens and pencils, and got down to business! Learn how the great American Constitution came to be.Av Patrick Brooks
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Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists, and rumblings in the new republic.Av Patrick Brooks
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WTF do we do? We’ve won a war for independence…now what?Av Patrick Brooks
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Native Americans come out of the American Revolution with the shortest straw, and America throws another skeleton in their closet.Av Patrick Brooks
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African Americans have been a central part of America since before its conception, and always will be. We wouldn’t have an America without African Americans!Av Patrick Brooks
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The Treaty of Paris officially ends the war…and nothing will make an Englishman $#!% faster than the sight of George Washington.Av Patrick Brooks
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