War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. your host, James Early. Hello and welcome to a special bonus episode.

This is your host, James, as always.

And today I'm coming to you with another feed drop from one of the other podcasts in

the Parthenon Podcast Network.

Specifically, this one's coming to you from the eyewitness history podcast by Josh Cohen.

In this podcast, Josh interviews people who have been through or witnessed key events in

recent history, recent of course, because they had to have been an eyewitness,

everything from Holocaust survivors to people who have been through the Vietnam War or 9-11

or many other things. And in this episode, which is really just a snippet, you'll have to go to

his podcast feed if you want to listen to the entire episode.

But in this episode, Josh speaks with the former principal of Columbine High School, Frank

DeAngelis.

Frank and Josh discuss the events of the tragic shooting, what the police were doing at the

time of the shooting, as well as the potential motivations of the two shooters, Eric Harris

and Dylan Klebold.

They also discuss the infamous basement tapes as well as seeing Klebold the previous week at prom,

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