War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. your host, James Early. Hello and welcome to another Parthenon podcast network roundtable discussion.

This is the third one we've had.

We've met previously and we discussed first, who would you kill if you could go back in history

and just wipe out somebody who would you take out? And then we had another one, I'm sure you

remember, who would you save? It was just the opposite. And how would that change history?

Tonight we have a different idea. We're going to talk about what event in history would you make not happen.

If you could go back in time and just eliminate an event rather than a single person,

what event would you eliminate?

And we agreed up front that you cannot eliminate 9-11.

That's kind of our JFK assassination of this one.

It's too easy, too obvious.

So I am here with the other members.

This is James Early, by the way. This is James Early. I'm the host of the Key Battles of American

History podcast, and I'm joined by my fellow Barthadon Podcast Network podcasters. We have the host of the flagship podcast of our network

history unplug, Dr. Scott Rank. How are you doing, Scott? All right. Flagship is pretty August

term, but I think you... Anyway, appreciate it. We also have with us the host of not one but two podcasts, Overachiever.

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