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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.

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

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

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The English colony at Roanoke

is one of the seminal pieces of American mythology.

It's got a little bit of everything.

It's got pirates. It's got plucky pioneers struggling to survive.

It's got a fight against the British aristocracy,

and of course there's the horrific maltreatment of the Native Americans.

Beyond that, it's just a good story,

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