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Hello, y'all.
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It's me.
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It's me.
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It's Dr.
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G, and welcome to Star Spangled.
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Studies a new podcast journey
through the sprawling, complicated,
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and absolutely fascinating
history of these United States.
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Now, you might be wondering about the
name of our guide for this journey.
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For the first two seasons, we're
going to be following the path laid
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out by the fantastic, massively
collaborative open source US history
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textbook called The American yawp.
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And if you're asking, what
on earth is a yawp, well then
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you're asking the right question.
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The name comes from the Great American
poet Walt Whitman, who in:
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wrote, I sound my barbaric yawp over
the roofs of the world End quote.
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A yawp is a raucous noise, a
bit of rough, vigorous language,
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and that is what US history is.
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It's not a single, quiet, neat story.
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It is a loud, often
conflicting chorus of voices.
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It's a history that you can find
in the marbled halls of government,
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sure, but also in the crowded slave
cabins, the bustling city markets,
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and the congested tenements.
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It's a story of dynamism and conflict
of resistance and cultural creation,
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and our goal here is to listen to
as many of those ops as we can.
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So here's how we're going to do this.
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We're launching our first two
seasons available all at once
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for you to binge Think of these.
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First two seasons, 30 episodes in total as
your foundational college survey course.
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This is your US History 1 0 1 or 1 0
2, and we'll start before the first
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European arrived in indigenous America.
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And we'll travel chronologically
all the way up to the recent past.
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We'll cover the big topics, colonization,
the American Revolution, slavery,
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the Civil War reconstruction.
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The World Wars, the Cold Wars,
and everything in between.
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We're building the framework, drawing
the big map of the American past,
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and this is essential background.
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You will need to make sense of it
all, but this isn't the end point.
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This is just the beginning.
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Once we've built that foundation
together, we're going to start
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season three, and that's where the
real deep dive into history begins.
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Week after week, we'll go back to
the map we've drawn and we'll explore
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specific corners in much greater detail.
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For example, in season one, we'll
have an episode on the era of religion
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and reform, but in a future season,
we're gonna spend an entire episode
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on the utopian community at Anita.
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And they're radical ideas about marriage
or family, or another one just on the life
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of the abolitionist Frederick Douglas.
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We'll also talk about manifest destiny
in season one, but later on we might
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devote an entire show to the Cherokee
Trail of Tears or the forgotten
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stories of the California Gold Rush.
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The first two seasons are designed
to give you the breadth of US
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History, a basic ground level study.
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Season three, we're gonna go beyond
and we're gonna give you the depth.
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This is a scholarly podcast.
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I'm a professional historian and I promise
to keep this factually accurate, to
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engage with the latest historical debates
and to ground our stories in primary
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sources, the raw materials of history.
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But this isn't going to
be a dry, boring lecture.
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History is more than that.
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It is about people, and people are
messy, but they're also inspiring.
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And endlessly interesting.
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I tell my students that there
is no story that you can think
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of that is more fascinating than
what's happened in the past.
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And we are going to find the narrative,
the hooks and the human drama that's
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gonna make that past go alive.
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So get ready.
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We're about to embark on
an incredible journey.
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Let's start at the beginning.
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Go ahead and jump into season one,
episode one of Indigenous America, and
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I'll meet you at the beginning of season
three when we start our deep dives.
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I'm Dr.
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G.
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This is Star Spangled Studies,
and I'll see y'all in the past.
