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 another special bonus episode of Key Battles of American History.

I recently sat down and had a conversation with Chris Maori.

Chris Maori, as you may know by now, is the host of the

newest podcast in the Parthodon Podcast Network, and that is Vlogging Through History. I released

a special episode about two weeks ago in which I gave you a little clip of Chris's episode on

Sergeant Alvin York, and I've been wanting to have

him on the show and interview him for a very long time, but for a variety of reasons it has

taken several months, but I finally was able to do that.

In this interview, we talk about how Chris became a history fanatic, how he started his

YouTube channel, which is an amazing

channel. It's got over 300,000 subscribers, very, very good channel, which I highly recommend.

It's a really cool story of how he developed that channel and how he grew it.

And we talk about some of the other things I like to talk about with other content creators,

including what are his greatest difficulties, the challenges, the greatest rewards

and blessings that he's received, and just his view of history teaching through new media,

through places like podcasts and YouTube videos and things like that.

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