Hello and welcome to the American History Podcast, episode zero introduction.

Welcome to the American History podcast.

Hosted by Sean Worswick.

Yeah. My name is Sean Worswick, your host for this podcast, which will explore the history of the United States.

Now, this first episode, it's my goal to simply lay the foundation for the podcasts, which will follow, and to answer two simple questions. What is this and why am I doing it? Well, this is a podcast about the history

of the United States, starting before the political entity known as the United States existed.

We will cover many of the familiar topics of American history, but also many things which perhaps are not so well known.

And we will certainly be covering them in far more depth than what is often done in, say, a history course in your local high school.

Now, the second question, why am I doing a podcast?

That's pretty simple to answer.

Just as probably almost every other history podcaster,

I love history, and I have since, well, ever since I can remember. I love going on family

vacations to places like Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon and stopping along the way at different

historical locations. Now, as a teacher, I really hate being answerable to some distant education board and having to teach things the way they say are important, or to teach the things they say are important.

The beauty of this podcast is that I can focus on what I think is important and interesting.

I can also go at my own pace.

Furthermore, as a professional

historian and teacher, I despise how oftentimes the mainstream culture, and even some of my

own professionals, caricature people and events, boiling them down into almost a cartoon version

of history. In general, I love podcasts, and I've been inspired by both podcasters in general and history

podcasters specifically.

First, I need to thank Tom Woods.

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