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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 a listen to your way from 1776 to the early 20th century.

Listen to history that doesn't suck on Spotify. Today's episode is brought to you by our Patreon supporters, including our Commodore

class.

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

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

Before we get started today, I'd like to address a couple of things. First, a touch of housekeeping.

Last time, I neglected to mention one of our Commodores at the opening of the show, The Pirate Nopales.

So I'd like to apologize for that. opening of the show, the Pirate Nopales.

So I'd like to apologize for that and offer them an honorary captaincy for the day maybe.

I really appreciate all of your support and I do apologize about that. But secondly, about last time, I cut the

episode a bit short. I had a much longer episode outlined and it involved a lengthy segment of quotations.

Those quotes were intended to showcase another point of view about the topic around which

today's show is centered. a point of view that's different

from my own or the other Western historians who I use as sources. But a couple of things happened.

First of all, it felt incomplete at the end of last week's episode.

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