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A Short Walk through Our Long History

I think that if you want to understand the world we live in today, it helps to understand the important events of history. In this series, we are going to look at major events, people, documents, places, books, and ideas that have shaped history, and thus shaped our modern world.

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71 - The Industrial Revolution

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2024/01/09

Ok, we are coming to the end of an era, and the beginning of a new one. But it’s not a clear transition this time. The Middle Ages basically ended with the beginning of the Enlightenment, though of course those two periods overlap as well. The new era we're moving into is known as the Industrial Age, which will last until our current era, the Digital age, which is also known as the age of idiots on Instagram. But throughout the Industrial age, Enlightenment values and ideas continued to

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70 - Benjamin Franklin

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2024/01/09

Ok, I have to acknowledge at the start here that I should have probably put this episode about Franklin before Adams or Jefferson, surely before Napoleon, but I was trying to follow the general flow of history, and Franklin kind of transcends the flow, you know? He’s undeniably one of the most important founding fathers, but at the same time, he doesn’t ever become the lead actor on the stage in the same way that Washington, Adams, or Jefferson did. But Franklin played a role in all the

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69 - Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2024/01/08

I mentioned last episode that the only other Founding Father who could really rival John Adam’s resume was Thomas Jefferson. And you could kind of say that everything Adams did, Jefferson did too, and did it, well, better. Website: shortwalkthroughhistory.comemail: shortwalkthroughhistory@gmail.com

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23:34

68 - John Adams

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/12/12

Ok, we are back to the new world, after lingering in France for more than 50 years, so we’ve gone from France to America, and we’ve gone back in time just a bit, so we can catch up on what’s been happening in America while France was enjoying a quick Reign of Terror. When we last left America, the United States had adopted its Constitution, and Washington was the President. John Adams is one of my favorite historical characters, in part because he just happened to have an absolutely

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32:48

67 - Napoleon

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/12/11

Well, we’re still in France. In this episode, we’re going to talk about one of the most famous Frenchmen ever, Napoleon Bonaparte. But I should start by pointing out that Napoleon, who eventually will become the Emperor of France, was not actually, well, French. He was Corsican. He was born on the Island of Corsica, which is an island in the Mediterranean, between France and Italy. It’s just north of the larger island of Sardinia. Ethnically, the Corsicans were mostly of Italian

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35:32

66- The Reign of Terror and the Rise of Napoleon -...

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/12/06

Well, last episode I tried to summarize the French Revolution, and I realized that there is no way to cover it in just one podcast episode, so here we are in part 2. So in this episode, we’re going to look at the part of the French Revolution that is known as the Reign of Terror, and how that will eventually lead to rise of a new emperor. Now, this is kind of obvious, but the American revolution didn’t have a period known as the reign of terror. Like I said last episode, the two

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65 - Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité - The French...

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/11/28

So in the New World, there’s a new country, with a new Constitution and a new central government. This had never happened before, it was an astounding thing in world history, and that fact was not lost on the people of the Old World. People all over Europe were watching what happened in America with great interest. And when the United States was able to actually throw off the British government, and then were also able to come together and successfully create a new form of government,

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64 - We the People

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/10/14

Well, you probably guessed from the title of the episode what this one is about. It’s about the US constitution, which starts with the amazing line, ‘we, the people.’ And though the US constitution is being ignored and circumvented at many levels in our world today, it is still the very best design of a government that was ever created. Before I get into the constitution itself and how it came to be, and the amazing minds behind it, I want to point out that in a way, the Declaration of

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63 - George Washington and the Revolutionary War

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/09/29

Well, the colonists have gone and done it. They have declared themselves independent of Great Britain, who has basically laughed off the Declaration of Independence, and is now ramping up their military to go whip those darn colonists back into line. And like I said a couple of episodes ago, Great Britain was the world super-power in 1776. The colonies had only a few small militias, made up of mostly farmers. But the colonists had home-field advantage, and that is going to mean a lot

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62 - When in the Course of Human Events

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/08/27

Ok, last episode, I talked about how the Declaration of Independence came to be drafted, and I decided that it was really such an important document that I needed to take an extra episode to explain some of the important ideas within the document, and how they shaped our modern world. I should start by warning you that this episode is a good bit longer than most in this podcast. The Declaration itself is just 1300 words, but there are so many good and important ideas in it, that it’s

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61 - The Second Continental Congress and the...

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/08/25

Well, it’s 1776. Things are about to happen. We just had the Boston tea party, Patrick Henry’s speech, and the battles of Lexington and Concord, and the Battle of Bunker Hill. The British have shelled and burned several colonial towns, including Falmouth, Massachusetts and Norfolk, Virginia. These are their own colonies, and they have burned the towns. The colonies are in open revolt against the British government.Website: shortwalkthroughhistory.comemail:

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60 - Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/08/15

At the end of the last episode, we left colonial Boston chafing under British military rule. Now Boston was a big port, a very important commercial center of New England, but it wasn’t all of New England, and it wasn’t even a very big city. In fact, Boston, at the time, was entirely on one small peninsula of land, in the middle of Boston Harbor. It was connected to the mainland by one small isthmus of land to the south. Nowadays, a lot of the harbor space around Boston has been

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59 - The Boston Tea Party

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/08/09

Things in Boston are about to get really dicey. In this episode, we’re going to look at several events that happened in Boston starting in about 1770 that all are part of the buildup of tension that leads to the beginning of the American Revolution. Last episode we talked about the French and Indian war, and how that was part of the larger 7 Years’ War that Great Britain fought with the French and Spanish. Though Great Britain was the clear winner of that war, the British government did

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58 - The French and Indian War

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/08/03

In this episode, we’re going to look at a world-changing war, that was started by an small Indian and colonial raid on a French patrol. That Indian raid included a few members of the Virginia Militia, including a 22 year old Lieutenant colonel named George Washington. This little raid was later described as “the volley fired by a young Virginian in the backwoods of America that set the world on fire.”Website: shortwalkthroughhistory.comemail: shortwalkthroughhistory@gmail.com

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57 - The American Enlightenment and the Great Awakening

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/07/06

Well, last episode we surveyed the 13 original colonies, as they were at the start of the 1700’s. And as I mentioned, a lot happens in the 1700’s. And as I mentioned 2 episodes ago, one of the things that was happening at this time in Europe was the Enlightenment, which was in full swing by the 1700’s. Anyway, the Enlightenment had a unique expression in America. The Enlightenment had a big effect in Europe, but its expression in the colonies was different. Like I said last episode,

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56 - The 13 Original Colonies

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/06/10

Well, buckle your podcast seatbelts, because we are getting to a point where a lot of stuff happens in a really short time. Welcome to the 1700’s! If you ask the question, which century ‘shaped our modern world’ the most, I think I might pick the 1700’s. A lot of influential stuff happened in the 1700’s. So as we start this crucial century, I thought I should set the stage by talking about each of the 13 English Colonies in the New World. But before I get to them, I should mention

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55 - The English Civil War, the Restoration, and a...

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/06/03

When we last left the British Monarchy, back in episode 53, King James had come to the throne, and finish writing his famous King James Bible. No, no, of course he didn’t write it, but he did commission it, and for its day, the scholarship and translation was very good. It be meant to be a replacement for English translations of the Geneva Bible, which was what was used by the Puritans. The King James Version was written and authorized to be used in Anglican churches, so the Puritans

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22:45

54 - The Enlightenment

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/06/02

Ok, I need to step back for an episode, and step away from the narrative of the English colonies in North America, which I really want to talk about, and instead spend a bit of time talking about one of the most important intellectual parts of the early modern era, because this whole intellectual trend really influences everything that happens in the next few episodes. It’s really the ideas of the Enlightenment that drive the whole Modern era, actually. The Enlightenment is every bit as

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53 - The Puritans, The Mayflower, and Plymouth Colony

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/05/12

After a little while in Holland, the Puritans from Yorkshire felt like they were being over-influenced by the permissive culture of Holland, and that they were also losing their Englishness. So in 1620, the puritans hired two ships, the Speedwell and the Mayflower, to take the entire congregation to the New World, and found a colony there. They were led by John Carver, William Brewster, and William Bradford. They set sail on August 15th, 1620, but the Speedwell was taking on water, so it

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52 - The First English Colonies in the New World

A Short Walk through Our Long History ·

2023/05/02

This episode is kind of a cross-over. We’re looking at the early English explorations of the New world, and their first colonies, which started during Elizabeth’s reign, so they are kind of part of the Middle Ages. But they are kind of part of the modern era, too, because these first colonies set the stage for the founding of Plymouth Colony, which set the stage for Boston, and Massachusetts, and eventually for a group of united colonies, which are definitely part of the modern era. So

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