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My name is Greg Jackson.

I'm a PhD holding historian, a professor and the creator of history that doesn't suck.

A podcast that makes legit seriously researched

American history come to life through entertaining stories. Join me for a

chronological telling of the United States story. From the revolution to

fractious civil war, tenacious inventors, brave reformers, and more.

With more than 100 episodes, you can already binge listen to your way from 1776 to the early 20th century.

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That's Commodore's Kane, Kenway, Hefe, Zumen, the Pirate Nopales, Matthew the Navigator,

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I'd also like to welcome our newest Commodore Drunken Dack and compliment you on a spectacular

name, and of course our quartermaster Heather. The Hello, welcome to the Pirate History Podcast. My name is Matt. Thank you for listening.

Last time we talked about, well we talked about the history of the 16th century.

It was obviously extremely truncated,

but it was sort of a medley of history

pertinent to pirates and piracy

from about 1453 to 1573.

And we touched on all the hits,

we talked about Christopher Columbus and the Spanish Empire.

We talked about the Treaty of Tortosceus and the Anglo-Spanish War, and we talked

about Sir Francis Drake. Very briefly, we talked about the dawn of the Protestant Reformation, and that's a theme that we'll be talking about

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