Hey everyone. Today is a big day for us here at American History Hit.

Today is our 200th episode. 200 episodes over about two years.

We started recording these conversations

back in September 2022. I was in a closet in my house back then. I have since

graduated to a booth, I'm glad to say. I couldn't be prouder of what we've done here all of us the sheer amount of American

history on this pod.

I often reflect on how little I've known of almost anything we've covered and then

how much I learned after, know then again that was the idea

here's a guy who doesn't know too much more than the audience knows learning history

from the masters of the trade. The podcast has taken us back to prehistoric Americans.

Onward to Roanoke and Jamestown,

all the way to pre-revolution 18th century and Pontiacs rebellion.

That was one of our first episodes recorded with the esteemed

Yale professor Ned Blackhawk telling us about the Native American uprising against the expansion

of British colonialism.

This was Pontiac's strategy to seize the forts that had become the primary establishment

of French and then British settlements, right?

Correct.

It seems kind of a strange and a kind of contemporary sense to think of these isolated

fortifications as central nodes of authority and power.

But that's really what they were, and it's not just because they were stationed on various respective

lands, but because they also help control the seas or the waters.

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