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Hello, everybody.

Tom Woods here.

We're talking about a watershed moment in the history of American foreign policy today.

And that is the Spanish-American War of 1898. And joining me to cover this

material is C.J. Kilmer, sometimes known as Prof. C.J. He is the host of the Dangerous History

Podcast, which I recommend you check out. He did a recent episode on this subject, And since I've not covered it in the past,

I thought it was worth talking about today, particularly because it is important in getting a

grasp of American foreign policy and some of the themes that have run through American foreign

policy for over 100 years now. A lot of them you can see in germ in the Spanish

American War. So that's our topic for today. C.J., welcome back. Hey, thanks. Good to be back.

I don't remember the last time I get into a nice juicy historical episode, and you'd think

as a historian I would do more of that. So I'm glad we're talking about the Spanish-American

War. Really a watershed in American history. It's, of course, 1898, and I'm trying to set the

stage. I have to remember that I have probably one-fifth of people who listen who are not

listening from the United States, and I don't want to just assume, well, everybody knows American history.

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