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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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00:32:04

Liberty250 - Live From the Apollo

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/30

In May 1774, Virginia stepped onto the stage of defiance and never looked back. When the House of Burgesses called for fasting and prayer in solidarity with Boston, Governor Lord Dunmore tried to silence them by dissolving the assembly. The Burgesses refused to be silenced. They gathered in the Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern, turning a tavern meeting into a spark of revolution. Dave and Bill explore how this act of defiance carried into the Virginia Association, a bold economic boycott that

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00:02:15

Breaking the Hindenburg Line

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/29

In September 1918, the First World War was nearing its end, but no one on the Western Front could be certain of that. The German Army still clung to the Hindenburg Line, a massive belt of fortifications stretching across northern France. At St. Quentin Canal, this line was at its strongest, defended by concrete bunkers, deep wire, and the canal itself, which served as a natural moat. For years, German commanders had called it impregnable.On September 29, Allied forces tested that claim. Americans,

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00:02:10

Good King Wenceslaus

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/28

When most of us hear the name “Good King Wenceslas,” we think of the Christmas carol that paints him as a benevolent monarch who braved the snow to help a poor man. The truth, however, is far darker and far more fascinating. Wenceslaus I was not a king but a duke of Bohemia, ruling in the early tenth century at a time when the nation stood at a crossroads between Christianity and pagan tradition, between independence and submission to stronger neighbors.His reign was brief but significant. He

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00:02:36

Give Me Liberty... Ships!

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/27

On September 27, 1941, long before American troops landed on foreign shores, a different kind of weapon was launched in Baltimore. The SS Patrick Henry, the first Liberty ship, slid into the water at the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard as bands played and President Franklin Roosevelt’s words echoed over the radio. It was a plain freighter, built not for beauty but for speed, economy, and purpose. Roosevelt admitted it looked like an ugly duckling, yet he knew what it represented.The Patrick Henry was

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00:08:47

The Return of the Golden Hind

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/26

On September 26, 1580, the people of Plymouth looked out to sea and saw a battered ship limping into the harbor. Her sails were patched, her timbers worn, and her crew thinned by years of hardship. Yet she carried a story that would change the course of England’s future. This was the Golden Hind, commanded by Francis Drake, and she had just completed a voyage that no Englishman had ever dared attempt.For nearly three years, Drake and his men had circled the globe, raiding Spanish treasure ships,

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00:02:11

The Battleship Liberte

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/25

On the morning of September 25, 1911, the French battleship Liberté lay quietly at anchor in Toulon harbor. The fleet was already grieving the loss of sailors from a smaller accident aboard the cruiser Gloire, and preparations for their funeral were underway. At first light, there was no reason to expect anything but another routine day. Then smoke began to curl from Liberté’s forward turret, followed by small blasts that sent rescue boats rushing to her side. Eighteen minutes later, a cataclysmic

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00:01:56

The Great Chief Justice

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/24

When John Marshall became Chief Justice in 1801, the Supreme Court was little more than a formality. It met in cramped quarters beneath the Capitol, ignored by presidents and forgotten by the public. Over the next thirty four years, Marshall would transform that overlooked institution into a powerful branch of government.Marshall had already lived many lives. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a lawyer in Virginia, a diplomat who refused to bow to French demands, and Secretary of State under John

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00:05:52

Operation Kiebitz: How Canada Outsmarted Nazi U-Boat...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/23

In 1943 a strange and daring plot unfolded in Canada, one that sounds like the script of a wartime thriller. Four of Germany’s most celebrated U-boat commanders, including Otto Kretschmer, the infamous “Tonnage King,” were being held at Camp 30 in Bowmanville, Ontario. Behind the fences they hatched an audacious escape plan. They would dig tunnels, slip across Canada, and meet a German submarine waiting on the coast of New Brunswick. The plan was called Operation Kiebitz, and it had the full backing

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00:02:05

The Candy Bomber

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/22

In 1948 Berlin was a city under siege. Not by tanks or artillery, but by hunger. The Soviet Union cut off all roads, rail lines, and canals leading into West Berlin. Over two million people faced starvation, and the world wondered if the Western Allies would abandon them. Instead, the Americans and British launched the Berlin Airlift, a mission that would keep a city alive from the sky.Pilots flew around the clock, carrying food, fuel, and medicine, often landing every thirty seconds. It was a

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00:01:36

The Meeting That Nearly Ended the American Revolution

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/21

On September 21, 1780, Benedict Arnold crossed the line from hero to traitor. Three years earlier he had been the savior of Saratoga, celebrated as the boldest commander in Washington’s army. But pride, debt, and resentment festered. Congress insulted him, creditors hounded him, and his Loyalist wife Peggy Shippen opened a channel to the British.That night, Arnold met Major John André on the banks of the Hudson. In Joshua Hett Smith’s house, he handed over maps of West Point and a signed pass under

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00:11:27

Half a Ducat and the Global Gambit

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/20

Five hundred years ago, Ferdinand Magellan embarked on a historic Spanish expedition to find a western sea route to the lucrative Spice Islands. What began as a commercial venture evolved into an epic, three-year ordeal of discovery, hardship, and perseverance. Sailing from Seville in 1519, Magellan’s fleet of five ships crossed uncharted oceans, endured mutinies, starvation, and storms, and made first contact with numerous Indigenous peoples.Though Magellan himself was killed in the Philippines,

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00:01:29

Plans, Preparation, and Departure -Magellan Departs...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/20

In September of 1519, five ships waited at Sanlúcar de Barrameda, their masts swaying above the tide. On board were nearly three hundred men. Some hoped for riches, others for redemption, and many had no choice at all. At their head was a man already carrying a limp and a grudge. Ferdinand Magellan had turned his back on Portugal, pledged himself to Spain, and promised King Charles he would find a strait to the Indies.On the morning of September 20, the bells rang, the drums beat, and sails filled

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00:17:28

The Debate: Was the Victory at Saratoga a Result of...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/19

Jonathan Mercer and Dr. Eleanor Whitcombe host an expanded debate on the underlying reasons for the American victory at Saratoga...

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00:01:36

The Battles of Saratoga 1777: How America’s First...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/19

The fall of 1777 brought the Revolution to a breaking point. In the dense forests and rolling fields of upstate New York, General John Burgoyne marched south with a British army that looked unstoppable on paper. But the wilderness, angry farmers with rifles, and a swelling Continental force turned his campaign into a slow bleed. At Freeman’s Farm, Daniel Morgan’s sharpshooters picked off British officers one by one, and though Burgoyne held the ground, his losses were crippling.Three weeks later at

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00:01:25

The Bloody End of Rome's Flavian Dynasty: The Murder...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/18

On the morning of September 18 in the year 96, Emperor Domitian was already on edge. He feared omens, dreaded the noon hour, and trusted fewer and fewer people. What he didn’t know was that the real danger wasn’t in the stars. It was walking toward him in the form of a steward named Stephanus, his arm wrapped in bandages, hiding a dagger.Domitian sat to read a petition. Stephanus struck. The first blow went to the groin, and the emperor cried out for a sword that was no longer there. The doors were

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00:01:33

The Prussian Drillmaster: Von Stueben Tains the...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/17

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was not born American, yet his influence helped secure American independence. A Prussian soldier trained under Frederick the Great, von Steuben arrived at Valley Forge in 1778 with nothing more than his experience, his determination, and a reputation that was perhaps a bit inflated by Benjamin Franklin’s pen. What he found was an army in rags, disorganized and nearly broken. What he gave them was structure, discipline, and confidence.Von Steuben drilled Washington’s men

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00:31:39

Government Without Representation: The Third...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/16

In this episode of Dave Does History, we turn to the third grievance of the Declaration of Independence, a charge that strikes at the very heart of liberty. Representation was not an abstract principle for the colonists. It was the difference between living as free men or being reduced to subjects of arbitrary power. From the seeds planted at Runnymede with Magna Carta to William Molyneux’s warning from Ireland, from Patrick Henry’s fiery Virginia Resolves to John Dickinson’s steady arguments in his

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00:01:48

Marco Polo’s World: From Venice to Kublai Khan and...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/15

A Venetian teenager leaves home with two older relatives and a bag of letters from the Pope. Twenty four years later he comes back with a head full of Asia, a coat lined with jewels, and a story that will rewrite how Europe pictures the world. We follow Marco Polo from Venice to Xanadu, through deserts that crack underfoot and courts where a wrong word can end you. We will hear how paper money moves an empire, how salt funds armies, and how a Mongol princess survives a murderous sea. We will wrestle

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00:01:36

Battle of South Mountain: The Overlooked Union...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/14

In the autumn of 1862, Robert E. Lee took the war north into Maryland, hoping to shake the Union and win foreign recognition for the Confederacy. What he did not count on was losing his battle plan, wrapped around a set of cigars, and having it fall into George McClellan’s hands. That stroke of luck set the stage for a clash in the mountain passes above the Maryland countryside.On September 14, the Union Army fought its way through Crampton’s, Fox’s, and Turner’s Gaps in the Battle of South

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00:01:32

The Plains of Abraham

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/13

In September of 1759, two armies faced each other on a plateau outside Quebec City, on land that belonged to a farmer named Abraham Martin. History remembers it as the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.James Wolfe, the young British general already dying of illness, gambled everything on a nighttime landing and a climb up a cliff the French thought was impassable. By dawn, four thousand redcoats stood ready. Montcalm, the French commander, chose to attack immediately rather than wait for

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