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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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00:04:49

The Huns

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/27

In today’s episode of Dave Does History, we journey back to a summer day in 1900, when Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II stepped onto a platform in Bremerhaven and let loose one of the most infamous speeches in modern imperial history. As German troops prepared to sail for China to join the fight against the Boxer Rebellion, the Kaiser delivered what has come to be known as the "Hun Speech." It was fiery, reckless, and meant to inspire fear. Instead, it handed Germany a nickname that would haunt

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00:05:44

Into the Belts of Fire

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/26

In the summer of 1958, the United States quietly launched a small satellite that carried a very big secret. Explorer 4 wasn’t just another science mission. It was part of a classified effort to understand what happens when nuclear weapons are detonated in space.Designed by Dr. James Van Allen’s team and launched aboard a Juno I rocket, Explorer 4 became the first satellite to observe both natural and artificial radiation belts surrounding Earth. It flew during the covert Operation Argus tests, where

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00:08:22

Before Time Rushed In

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/25

Wyoming has always held a special place in my heart. It is one of those rare places that still feels untamed, where the sky stretches without apology and the land remembers everything. If life ever lines up just right, I’d love to settle there, not just visit, but stay and listen to what the wind has to say.In this episode of Dave Does History, we’re heading back to July 25, 1868, when the Territory of Wyoming was officially established. But this story begins long before the ink dried. We’ll explore

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00:06:18

Until There Was No Sky Left

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/24

Amelia Earhart wasn’t just a pilot. She was a force of nature wrapped in leather and sky. In this episode of Dave Does History, we trace the arc of her remarkable life—from her bold, tomboy beginnings in Kansas to the cockpit of the Lockheed Electra that carried her into legend. She didn’t break barriers gently. She tore through them at altitude, shattering expectations for what women could do in a world that told them to stay grounded.We’ll explore her record-setting flights, her rise to

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00:05:55

National Vanilla Ice Cream Day

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/23

On this episode of Dave Does History, we’re taking a bite out of something sweet, simple, and surprisingly historic: vanilla ice cream. July 23 is National Vanilla Ice Cream Day, and while some folks might shrug at vanilla as “plain,” the truth is anything but.This flavor has roots that stretch from the ancient empires of Mesoamerica to the refined kitchens of Monticello. Along the way, it gathered tradition, technique, and meaning. It became a quiet classic on American tables, always there, never

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00:32:48

The Patriot King?

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/22

In this episode of Dave Does History, we step into the uneasy months before independence, when not everyone in the colonies was ready to break with the Crown. Some still believed King George III could be reasoned with, that he might rise above Parliament and become the kind of monarch Enlightenment thinkers dreamed of. John Dickinson’s Olive Branch Petition was a final appeal to that idea, a hope that the King would act as a Patriot King, as imagined by Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke. But what

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00:05:40

Bull Run

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/21

On this episode of Dave Does History, we go back to a moment when the Civil War still wore a fresh coat of naivety. July 21, 1861. The first major clash between North and South unfolds near a muddy Virginia stream called Bull Run. People thought this would be over quickly. They brought picnic baskets. They brought their kids. What they got instead was a violent wake-up call. Union troops, raw and untested, marched straight into a Confederate trap and came undone in full view of the nation. This

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00:04:28

Chryse Planitia

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/20

On this episode of Dave Does History, we go back to July 20, 1976, a day that lit the fuse on a lifetime passion for space.At just twelve years old, I watched as Viking 1 became the first American spacecraft to land safely on Mars. It wasn’t a movie. It wasn’t science fiction. It was real, and it was glorious.Viking wasn’t just a piece of hardware. It was a question on legs, asking the Red Planet if anything lived there. Backed by Carl Sagan’s vision and NASA’s engineering brilliance, Viking 1

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00:04:01

The Blaze That Built a City

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/19

Before sunrise on July 19, 1845, Lower Manhattan stirred under the weight of another blistering summer. Most of the city slept, unaware that a moment of carelessness or perhaps a faulty flame in a whale oil shop would turn calm into catastrophe. The fire began in the early hours inside J.L. Van Doren’s candle and whale oil business at 34 New Street. A single blaze, born in a building filled with some of the most flammable materials imaginable, found plenty to feed on. Within minutes, flames spilled

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00:05:58

Eleven Shots

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/17

On this episode of Dave Does History, we take a sobering look at one of the most haunting nights of the 20th century: the brutal execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family by Bolshevik revolutionaries on July 17, 1918.It wasn’t a battlefield. It wasn’t a courtroom. And it certainly wasn’t justice. It was a dark cellar, a lie about a photograph, and a hail of bullets that ended over 300 years of Romanov rule in a single night.This wasn’t just the fall of a monarchy. It was the violent birth

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00:05:36

He was Kneeling

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/16

On July 16, 1950, in the early chaos of the Korean War, a Catholic chaplain named Father Herman Felhoelter made a choice that would define the very idea of sacrifice. Surrounded by wounded American soldiers who could not be moved, he stayed behind as the enemy advanced.He knelt to pray over the dying and was gunned down mid-prayer, alongside the men he refused to leave.This is the story of the Chaplain–Medic Massacre, one of the first and most horrifying atrocities of the war. It is a story of

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00:32:45

Liberty 250 -Liberty Saddles Up

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/15

This week on Dave Does History on Bill Mick Live, we take you back to the morning that changed the world—April 19, 1775. It didn’t begin with a declaration. It began with whispers, riders, and a few dozen men standing on Lexington Green. These weren’t revolutionaries yet. They were farmers, tradesmen, and teenagers who had simply had enough.Dave brings a personal lens to the story, tracing the footsteps of his own ancestors—Ebenezer and Isaac Bowman—as they faced down the British Regulars. From Paul

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00:07:19

But... The 1st Amendment???

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/14

In the summer of 1798, the young American republic faced a moment of crisis. Gripped by fear of foreign enemies and internal dissent, Congress passed a series of laws that would become known as the Alien and Sedition Acts. Pitched as national security measures during the undeclared Quasi-War with France, these laws instead became a hammer used against political opponents and a direct challenge to the very freedoms the Revolution was fought to secure.In today’s episode of Dave Does History, we’ll

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00:07:01

The Northwest Ordinance

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/13

In the summer of 1787, while America’s greatest political minds were huddled in Philadelphia crafting the Constitution, another crucial act of nation-building was quietly unfolding in New York. The Confederation Congress, often remembered more for its failures than its triumphs, passed the Northwest Ordinance—one of the most influential pieces of legislation in American history.This wasn’t just a law about land. It was a blueprint for how liberty could stretch westward. It promised new states,

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00:06:14

Along the Arkansas River

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/12

On July 12, 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt rolled into Pueblo, Colorado aboard his special train, stood on the rear platform, and delivered a brief but memorable speech. The weather was pleasant, the crowd was cheerful, and FDR, ever the showman, tossed out a line that still echoes today: “We want to make democracy work.” It sounded noble. It sounded patriotic. But what did he mean by it? And how did that idea of democracy compare to the one envisioned by the Founding Fathers? In this episode

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00:06:32

BB-36

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/11

On this episode of Dave Does History, we set our sights on one of the toughest warships to ever sail under the American flag—the USS Nevada. Launched in 1914 and sunk, finally, in 1948, the Nevada wasn’t just a battleship. She was a brawler. She took a torpedo at Pearl Harbor, shook off six bombs, stood back up, and got back into the fight. She bombarded beaches from Normandy to Okinawa and even stared down two atomic bombs at Bikini Atoll. And when it came time to sink her, the Navy had to throw

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00:07:27

The Earth Did Not Crash Into the Sun

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/10

Today on Dave Does History, we’re cracking open one of the dustier chapters of the American presidency—one that begins not with fireworks and fanfare, but with cherries and spoiled milk. When President Zachary Taylor died unexpectedly on July 9, 1850, the nation turned to a man most Americans barely knew: Vice President Millard Fillmore. What followed was a presidency built on compromise, cautious pragmatism, and just enough action to hold the country together—for a while. Fillmore didn’t make grand

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00:07:51

Monongahela

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/09

July 9, 1755. The forests of western Pennsylvania echoed with musket fire, panic, and the cries of wounded men as the mighty British Empire came face to face with a kind of war it didn’t understand. At the center of it all was a proud general who wouldn’t listen, an outnumbered enemy who knew the terrain, and a young Virginian named George Washington who refused to break. The Battle of the Monongahela should have been a victory. Instead, it became one of the most humiliating defeats in British

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00:07:21

Shootout on the Juneau Wharf

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/08

On July 8, 1898, one of the Wild West’s most infamous con men met his end not in a saloon or a courtroom, but on a weathered dock at the edge of Skagway, Alaska. Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith had made a career out of charming suckers and swindling prospectors, running everything from fake lotteries to rigged card games. He called himself a protector of order, but the people of Skagway saw through the illusion. When Soapy’s gang robbed a returning miner of his gold, the town finally had enough

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00:06:39

Otumba

Dave Does History ·

2025/07/07

On this episode of Dave Does History, we’re heading back to the summer of 1520, deep into the heart of Mesoamerica, where a broken band of Spanish conquistadors found themselves surrounded by thousands of Aztec warriors on the dusty plains of Otumba. Hernán Cortés was battered, outnumbered, and on the brink of ruin. What happened next wasn’t a miracle—it was desperation, steel nerves, and a reckless cavalry charge that changed history. Today, we’ll dive into the truth behind the Battle of Otumba,

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