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. This is James,

as always. We have a new podcast that is joining the Parthenon Podcast Network. In fact,

it's already joined, and there's already three excellent episodes out.

Some of you may have heard of it.

Some of you may have even listened.

But in case some of you have not, I wanted to let you know that Chris Mowrie from the Vlogging Through History YouTube channel is now doing a podcast by the same name,

vlogging through history.

What Chris is doing is he's taking some of his YouTube channel episodes where he's visited battlefields, and he is expanding

them, adding in new personal memoirs from journals and other and diaries and books and other sources,

and it turns into a great story. Chris is a fantastic storyteller,

and I know you're going to love this podcast. Here is the description that Chris himself gives

for the podcast. Many people learn about history as a collection of names, dates, and places. History is so

much more interesting than that. It is the stories of

men and women who made those places and events matter. It is the story of the private soldier as much

as it is the story of the great general. It is the story of the farmer in the field as much as it is

the story of the man in the Oval Office. Join Chris from the YouTube channel vlogging through history

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