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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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00:01:25

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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00:01:38

The Ship of Gold: The Sinking of SS Central America...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/12

In September 1857, the SS Central America set out from Havana on what should have been a routine run to New York. She carried more than five hundred souls and a fortune in California gold, the kind of voyage that symbolized American progress and prosperity. But the Atlantic had other plans. For three days a hurricane tore at the ship, stripping away her sails, drowning her boilers, and reducing her passengers to bucket brigades and desperate prayers. Miners tossed away money belts heavy with gold,

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00:01:44

"Give Me Back My Legions" - The Battle of Teutobrg...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/11

Today we are traveling deep into the forests of Germania, back to the year 9 CE, where Rome suffered one of its most shocking defeats. For decades the Roman Empire had marched across Europe, building roads, planting forts, and convincing itself that nothing could stand in its way. But arrogance has a way of blinding even the most powerful empires.At Teutoburg Forest, three entire Roman legions vanished. They were led by Publius Quinctilius Varus, a governor more comfortable collecting taxes than

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00:01:29

Sisi’s Tragic Death in Geneva: The Assassination of...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/10

On September 10, 1898, Europe lost one of its most mythologized figures in the most unexpected way. Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known to the world as Sisi, was walking along the lakeside in Geneva. She was sixty years old, dressed in black as she had been since the death of her son, and she was about to board a steamship for what should have been a quiet journey.Instead, an Italian anarchist named Luigi Lucheni lunged at her with a sharpened file, striking her in the chest. At first she didn’t

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00:04:50

Somnium Holtianum

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/09

This morning on Bill Mick Live we heard Senator Tim Kaine declare that our rights come from government, not from God or from nature. That claim rattles me because it cuts against the very foundation of the American idea. History is not just about dates and battles. It is how we pass down the virtues we want our children to carry. When we stop teaching those lessons, societies begin to slip.The Romans knew this. Cicero wrote of Scipio Africanus speaking to his grandson in a dream, urging him to seek

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00:32:54

The Kaine Mutiny

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/09

On this episode of Dave Does History on Bill Mick Live we took a hard look at a statement from Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia that deserves more than a passing shrug. Kaine declared that our rights do not come from God or from nature, but from government.That claim cuts right into the heart of the American idea. Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence begins with the opposite truth, that we are created equal and endowed with unalienable rights. Government exists to secure those rights, not to invent

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00:01:23

Legacy of the Renaissance: Michelangelo’s David

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/08

Michelangelo’s David is one of those works of art that we think we know. We see him on postcards, posters, and T-shirts. He is reproduced so often that it is easy to forget what he really is. In Florence, standing seventeen feet tall, the marble figure looks less like a souvenir and more like a revelation.This was not a statue carved from perfect stone. It came from a massive block that other sculptors had abandoned as too flawed to use. Michelangelo, only twenty-six years old, took on the challenge

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00:06:25

The Turtle

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/07

Special guests Lena and Graham from Patrol reports, sit in today to bring you the story of the Turtle...In September of 1776, New York Harbor was the stage for one of the most unusual moments in the American Revolution. The British fleet, anchored in force and confident of its dominance, faced a new kind of threat that no navy had ever encountered before. It came not from a ship bristling with cannon, but from beneath the water in a wooden contraption no larger than a barrel.This strange invention

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00:03:27

"It is Useless, Gentlemen": The Assassination of...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/06

On September 6, 1901, the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo was filled with excitement. Crowds gathered to see President William McKinley, a leader at the height of his popularity, who delighted in greeting ordinary Americans face to face. It was supposed to be a celebration of progress and prosperity, but history had other plans.Among those waiting in line was Leon Czolgosz, a disaffected young man who had lost faith in the system and embraced anarchist ideas. Concealing a

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00:02:29

The Sunken Treasure of the Atocha: Spain’s Lost...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/05

In September of 1622, the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha set sail from Havana carrying a fortune in silver, gold, emeralds, pearls, and goods that represented the wealth of an empire. She was the rear guard of the treasure fleet, armed with twenty bronze cannons and built to protect the convoy from attack. Her holds were so full that the registered cargo alone would be worth hundreds of millions in today’s dollars.But the fleet left late in the season, and only a day out of Havana the

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00:04:15

Little Rock Nine and the 1957 Central High Crisis:...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/04

On September 4, 1957, the front steps of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, became the stage for one of the most dramatic confrontations of the Civil Rights era. Nine African American teenagers, known now as the Little Rock Nine, tried to attend school like any other students. Instead, they found themselves blocked by the Arkansas National Guard and surrounded by an angry mob. Governor Orval Faubus called it a matter of public safety. The federal courts called it a violation of the

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00:03:01

The Battle of Naulochus – Rome’s Sea Change

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/03

In 36 BCE, the Roman Republic’s fate wasn’t decided in the Senate or on a battlefield in Italy, but on the waves off Sicily. The Battle of Naulochus is a name most people have never heard, yet it was the clash that made Augustus possible. Rome was starving, her grain supply strangled by Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey the Great, who ruled the seas like a pirate king. Into this crisis stepped Marcus Agrippa, Octavian’s brilliant right-hand man, who built a secret fleet, trained new crews, and

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00:32:49

DDH - The Royal Assent

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/02

On this week’s edition of Dave Does History on Bill Mick Live, we dig into the very first grievance Thomas Jefferson listed in the Declaration of Independence. It wasn’t about taxes, soldiers in your house, or even British warships off the coast. No, Jefferson opened with something that feels almost ordinary—laws. Specifically, the King’s refusal to give his assent to laws that the colonists believed were wholesome and necessary for the public good.That neglect, Jefferson argued, was more

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00:02:35

The Powder Alarm of 1774 – The False Alarm That...

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/01

On today’s episode of Dave Does History, we’re heading back to Massachusetts in the fall of 1774 for a story that almost rewrote the American Revolution’s opening chapter. It’s called the Powder Alarm, and it was the day when a rumor nearly set off a war months before Lexington and Concord. General Gage thought he was playing it safe by quietly seizing a stash of gunpowder from the colonists. Instead, his move sparked a chain reaction that mobilized tens of thousands of armed New Englanders who

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00:02:07

The McNamara Plot, Darrow’s Defense, and a City Remade

Dave Does History ·

2025/09/01

In the early hours of October 1, 1910, downtown Los Angeles was rocked by an explosion that tore through the Los Angeles Times building. The blast, fueled by dynamite hidden in a suitcase and ignited by barrels of ink and ruptured gas lines, turned the newsroom into an inferno. Twenty-one people were killed and more than a hundred injured. The city awoke not only to smoke and rubble, but to the opening act of what newspapers quickly called the crime of the century.At the heart of it all was the long

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