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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.

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Brug, Antwerp, Luxembourg, Alsace Lorraine, Epray, Dunkirk.

Today these names might invoke an image of idyllic Belgian countryside, but to our grandparents and great-grandparents

they were something else.

For those of us with a passion for history, especially those with an interest in military history, those names

are familiar. They invoke images of some of the darkest moments of our past, as well as some of the

moments of greatest hope and heroism.

August 1914, the Schleifen Plan, the Western Front, Trench Warfare,

Mustard Gas, and the Battle of Passendale, the Maginot Line, the Blitzkrieg, Operation Dynamo,

the Holocaust, and then Case Yellow.

The country surrounding those cities has seen throughout their history an untold number of battles.

Still today they'll find debris from one or another of the many wars fought on that soil.

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