#128 Philadelphia Area Meet-up Details and a Book Recommendation

The History of the Americans

Jack Henneman

History

4.9 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The main purpose of this micro-episode is to give you the details on the much ballyhooed Philadelphia area meet-up of fans of the podcast. The date is this Friday, October 6, 2023. The place will be Neshaminy Creek Brewing Company, 909 Ray Avenue, Croydon, Pennsylvania. The official start-time is 5:00 pm, but if you can’t get there so early rest assured that I’ll be around until at least 7:30, and certainly as late as the conversation remains fun and interesting. I’ll aim to get there at 4:30 or so to check out the room I reserved, which I believe they call “the nook.” I trust many of you will recognize me from my photo on the website or on Twitter or Facebook, but in case not I’ll be wearing a red “History Nerd” cap.

I also read a short excerpt from Yascha Mounk’s new book The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, which I highly recommend. Mounk explores the philosophical roots of critical theory and the full range of ideas clumsily lumped together as “wokeism,” or “the successor ideology.” The book is extremely useful for understanding how we arrived at our current identity politics, and is relevant to understanding the “history wars” that have played out over the last four or five years. You can buy it through the link above.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 128.1. I'm your host, Jack Heneman,
0:14.6	and I'm recording this episode on October 3, 2023 in Princeton, New Jersey.
0:21.7	In general, we are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States
0:26.1	from the beginning without presentism.
0:29.6	But not this time.
0:31.5	The main purpose of this micro episode is to give you the details on the much-belly-hooed Philadelphia area meetup of fans of the
0:41.0	podcast. The date is this Friday, October 6, 2023. The place will be in a Chamonie Creek
0:48.2	Brewing Company, 909 Ray Avenue, Croydon, Pennsylvania.
0:54.8	The official start time is 5 p.m., but if you can't get there so early,
0:59.4	rest assured that I'll be around until at least 7.30 and certainly as late as the conversation
1:04.8	remains fun and interesting.
1:08.0	I'll aim to get there at 4.30 or so to check out the room I reserved, which I believe they call
1:13.4	the Nook. I trust many of you will recognize me from my photo on the website or on Twitter or
1:20.0	Facebook, but in case not, I'll be wearing a red history nerd cap. Be there as your schedule allows. And if you do plan on coming, it would help
1:30.7	me to send a note at the History of the Americans at gmail.com or via the contact page on the
1:37.3	website, the history of the Americans.com, or by direct message on Twitter or even Facebook.
1:44.9	I hope I picked a good venue.
1:47.5	The main consideration was geography,
1:49.8	and Croydon seemed to be within range for a lot of listeners,
1:53.5	yet out of the expense and difficulty of downtown Philly.
1:58.3	The brewery is also within the northern boundary of New Sweden, at least according to
2:02.8	the most aggressive interpretation of Peterman Wee's long-lost deed. Last but not least, the actual
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