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Dave Does History

Dave Does History takes listeners on an engaging journey through the moments that shaped the world we live in today. Hosted by Dave, a passionate historian with a knack for storytelling, the podcast explores pivotal events, unsung heroes, and the complex forces behind historical turning points. With a conversational tone and a deep understanding of the past, Dave makes history accessible, relatable, and downright fascinating.

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00:02:32

The Legend

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/24

On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, while millions of Americans prepared for turkey and football, a nondescript man in a business suit bought a one-way ticket from Portland to Seattle for twenty dollars cash. He gave his name as Dan Cooper, boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305, and settled into seat 18C with a bourbon and 7-Up.Less than thirty minutes after takeoff, he handed flight attendant Florence Schaffner a note claiming he had a bomb. What followed was the most audacious crime in commercial aviation

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00:02:32

Let Truth and Falsehood Grapple

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/23

Today we're talking about the single most important defense of free speech ever written in English: John Milton's Areopagitica, published illegally in November 1644 while England was busy tearing itself apart in civil war.Parliament had just killed the king's censorship machine, watched ideas explode everywhere, panicked, and promptly rebuilt the exact same censorship machine under new management. Milton, already public enemy number one for arguing you should be allowed to divorce a bad

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00:02:37

The Juan Fernandez Islands

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/22

The Juan Fernández Islands first caught my attention thanks to a documentary so wildly inaccurate that it should have come with a warning label. The history was nonsense, the claims were absurd, yet the imagery was stunning. Those rugged cliffs rising from the Pacific, the wind carved ridges, and the lonely bays felt like a place where the world still keeps its secrets. It was the kind of landscape that stays with you long after the credits roll.In this episode we look past the fiction and into the

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00:02:09

Not More Illustrious for Public Services Than For...

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/21

Josiah Bartlett does not always get the fanfare of the larger revolutionary names, yet his fingerprints are all over the birth of the nation. He was a frontier doctor who challenged the medical habits of his day and saved lives by trusting observation over superstition. He was a legislator who refused to bow to royal pressure. When the moment of truth came in July of 1776, he was the first delegate called and the first to vote for independence. His signature followed right after John Hancock on the

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00:03:52

The Daughters of Liberty

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/20

The story of the American Revolution usually unfolds with images of muskets, marches, and men debating the future of a continent. Yet the fight for liberty also lived in quieter rooms where spinning wheels hummed and tea went untouched. The Daughters of Liberty stepped into that space and turned ordinary domestic life into a political force that Parliament never saw coming.Their work pulled women into a struggle that claimed to speak for all Americans while giving them no formal voice. They answered

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00:02:14

The Siege of 96

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/19

In the quiet backcountry of South Carolina, a small trading village called Ninety Six became the unlikely center of a civil war within the American Revolution. It was a crossroads of trails and tempers, where Loyalists and Patriots clashed not just over independence, but over who truly represented justice and order.In this episode, we look at the two sieges that defined Ninety Six: the first in 1775, when neighbors turned their guns on each other at Savage’s Old Fields, and the second in 1781, when

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00:31:20

How an Ancient Epic Shaped American Liberty

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/18

Welcome to another captivating episode of Dave Does History, recorded live on Bill Mick LIVE on November 18, 2025.After a five-week recovery from shoulder surgery, historian Dave Bowman makes a triumphant return to explore a profound and often overlooked influence on America's founding: Virgil's ancient epic, The Aeneid.Far from mere mythology to the Founding Fathers, this Roman masterpiece shaped their understanding of liberty as dutiful obedience to a higher moral order, not unchecked

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00:02:11

The Architect of Death

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/17

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, when Chicago was bursting with industry and ambition, a man named H. H. Holmes built something far darker than a business empire. Behind his polite smile and bowler hat was a mind that turned murder into method and fraud into daily practice.This episode of Dave Does History examines the life and crimes of Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H. H. Holmes, often called America’s first serial killer. From his eerie “Murder Castle” near the World’s

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00:02:18

Do You Know the Way to Santa Fe?

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/16

In this episode of Dave Does History, we ride back to the early 1820s, when the American frontier was not yet a land of settlers but of merchants chasing profit across a sea of grass. The story begins with William Becknell, a man drowning in debt who set out from Missouri and ended up opening the Santa Fe Trail. His daring 1822 expedition proved that wagons could cross the Great Plains, carrying trade goods and transforming a lonely wilderness into a bustling highway of commerce.We’ll follow

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00:04:32

Subs That Go Bump In the Night

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/15

In the frozen silence of the Barents Sea, two submarines from rival nations crossed paths on November 15, 1969. One was the USS Gato, a sleek American attack sub built for stealth. The other was the Soviet K-19, a ballistic missile boat already haunted by disaster and known among sailors as “the Widowmaker.” When their steel hulls collided 200 feet below the surface, the world nearly brushed nuclear catastrophe.This episode tells the story of that collision—the secret confrontation between the

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00:05:32

SCE to AUX

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/14

On November 14, 1969, the crew of Apollo 12 rode a pillar of fire into a gray and rain-soaked Florida sky. Just thirty-six seconds after liftoff, lightning struck the massive Saturn V, knocking out power, blinding the instruments, and filling the command module with flashing warning lights. A second strike followed, threatening to end the mission before it had even cleared the clouds.Inside the capsule, three Navy men—Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon, and Alan Bean—fought to make sense of chaos while

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00:02:35

The Pennsylvania Farmer

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/13

John Dickinson was called the Penman of the Revolution, but his story is more complicated than that. He was a patriot who resisted British authority with his pen long before most dared, yet when independence came to a vote, he stood against declaring it too soon. His caution earned him scorn from some and respect from others. He believed in liberty, but he also believed that liberty without order was just chaos dressed up in slogans.In this episode, we explore the life of John Dickinson, the man who

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00:05:52

For the Children Who Sleep in the Deep

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/12

On November 12, 1928, the SS Vestris slipped beneath the gray Atlantic roughly two hundred miles off the Virginia Capes. She had sailed from New York two days earlier, overloaded and poorly maintained, bound for Buenos Aires on what should have been a routine voyage. Instead, she became a floating indictment of negligence and pride. The captain delayed his distress call, the crew mishandled lifeboats, and “women and children first” turned into a bitter joke as every child aboard was lost.The tragedy

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00:06:37

The Centralia Tragedy

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/11

On November 11, 1919, the small town of Centralia, Washington gathered to honor the first anniversary of the end of the Great War. What began as a peaceful Armistice Day parade ended in gunfire, chaos, and death. As members of the American Legion marched proudly in uniform, celebrating service and sacrifice, they were ambushed by members of the Industrial Workers of the World, a radical labor group that despised the very ideals those veterans represented.Four Legionnaires fell that day, murdered on

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00:13:39

The Wilmington Insurrection

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/10

On November 10, 1898, the city of Wilmington, North Carolina, was torn apart by the only successful coup d’état in American history. What began as a campaign of white supremacy ended in organized terror. Armed mobs burned The Daily Record, a Black-owned newspaper, and murdered scores of Black citizens while forcing the city’s elected officials to resign at gunpoint. By nightfall, Wilmington’s multiracial government was gone, replaced by a white supremacist regime that would usher in decades of Jim

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00:06:46

The Night the Militia Stood Their Ground

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/09

In the early hours of November 9, 1780, the quiet woods along the Broad River in South Carolina erupted in musket fire. The British, led by Major James Wemyss, had crept toward what they thought was a sleeping rebel camp. Instead, they charged straight into the muzzle flashes of men who had learned their lessons the hard way.This is the story of the Battle of Fishdam Ford, a small but fierce fight that changed the rhythm of the Southern Campaign. Brigadier General Thomas Sumter’s militia, hardened

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00:06:41

Once Upon a time In Camelot

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/08

In 1960, America stood on the edge of a new decade, torn between the steady hand of experience and the promise of youthful change. The presidential race between Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy was more than a contest for the White House. It was a battle for the nation’s direction in a tense and uncertain age.For the first time, the power of television would shape how voters saw their leaders. Kennedy’s calm, confident presence clashed with Nixon’s weary intensity under the

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00:02:19

Dunmore's Proclamation

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/07

On November 7, 1775, from the deck of a British warship anchored off Norfolk, Virginia, Lord Dunmore issued a proclamation that shook the colonies to their core. The royal governor declared martial law and promised freedom to any enslaved person who would take up arms for the King.It was a desperate act, meant to crush rebellion and strike fear into Virginia’s planters. Instead, it ignited outrage among Patriots and inspired thousands of enslaved people to risk everything for liberty. In trying to

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00:06:00

The March King

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/06

John Philip Sousa was more than a composer. He was the heartbeat of an emerging America, a man whose marches made a young nation stand taller. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1854, Sousa rose from a Marine Band apprentice to the most recognized bandleader in the world. His music carried the pride of parades, the dignity of ceremony, and the thrill of unity.Yet behind the polished brass and crisp snare rolls was a man wary of the new century. He distrusted the phonograph and the player piano, calling

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00:05:18

HMS Jervis Bay

Dave Does History ·

2025/11/05

In November 1940, in the cold and deadly North Atlantic, a converted passenger liner named HMS Jervis Bay faced an impossible task. She was the only escort for Convoy HX 84 when a German pocket battleship, the Admiral Scheer, appeared on the horizon. Her captain, Edward Fegen, ordered the merchant ships to scatter and turned his under-armed vessel straight toward the enemy. What followed was twenty minutes of pure courage, a hopeless stand that saved thirty-one ships and hundreds of lives. This is

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