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Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, a radio for history podcast for everyone, for

people who don't like history, people who do like history and people who forgot to

learn any at school.

My name is Greg Jenner, I am a public historian, author and broadcaster, I'm the Chief Nerd

on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories, and you might have heard my other podcast,

Home School History, but that's mostly for the kids.

On this podcast we run a two-party system of witty wise cracks and historical high jinks,

and we are ending series three of your Dead To Me with five episodes dedicated to American

history.

Last time out was the Harlem Renaissance, but today we are paddling across the pond and

joining back nearly 250 years to learn all about the early days of the US Republic.

Yes, it's the inevitable politics episode, I mean we had to really dimly.

And joining me in the room where it happens, or rather the zoom where it happens, are

two very special guests.

In History Corner, slash history covered because she's literally in a closet, she's a professor

of history at Yale and specialises in early American politics, political violence and

cultural polarization.

Hmm, sounds familiar.

She was co-host of the American History Podcast backstory.

She's the author of prize-winning books such as the staggeringly relevant field of blood,

violence in Congress and the road to civil war.

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