Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast, Episode 209.

I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and we are recording this episode on May 19, 26, in a secure,

undisclosed location in Washington, D.C.

Actually, just the Kempton on 16th, north of Rhode Island.

We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States from the beginning

without intentional presentism.

I'm here in Washington to attend a live show of the fifth column podcast.

I made the trip both because I expected it to be very entertaining

and also to support those guys.

They've been very kind to me and this podcast.

So thank you. Before we get to the history fund, a public service announcement, a listener sent an

email asking whether there was a mailing list for meetups.

I don't have one, and have been relying on posts on the Facebook page for the podcast and X to get the word out. That's not working very well. I then had the idea that announcing

meetups and other podcast fund through my substack would make sense.

So if you want to get emails about possible meetups, subscribe to my substack.

Just spitballing.

Link in the episode notes.

Subscribing will subject you to my occasional substack posts, which I hope are occasionally interesting,

and the substack email function will be a very convenient mechanism for keeping everyone posted.

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subscriber for a cost per month less than a pint of beer almost anywhere. As is probably obvious, this episode will make a lot more sense if you've

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