SYMHC Classics: Regulator War
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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This 2019 episode covers the Regulator War, aka the War of the Regulation, aka the Regulator Movement. It was a North Carolina event which arose in response to unfair taxes, poor representation and corruption.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.6 | Happy Saturday. |
| 0:08.0 | Today's Saturday classic is on The Regulator War, also called The Regulator Movement. |
| 0:13.6 | It was inspired by the TV show Outlander, although I did not choose it as today's Saturday |
| 0:18.3 | classic to align with last night's Outlander series finale. |
| 0:23.0 | It is because today is the 255th anniversary of the Battle of Alamance, |
| 0:28.4 | which took place on May 16th, 1771, and was the Regulator War's final, |
| 0:34.6 | and by some descriptions only, battle, because some people want to draw a distinction |
| 0:39.2 | between battles and skirmishes. This originally came out on January 28, 2019. Enjoy. Welcome to |
| 0:49.5 | Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:59.4 | Thank you. Mist in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio. Hello and welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:01.3 | I'm Tracy V. Wilson. |
| 1:02.9 | And I'm Holly Fry. |
| 1:04.1 | If you have been watching the fourth season of the TV show, Outlander, one of the things |
| 1:10.2 | that keeps coming up is that there are some rebellious |
| 1:13.1 | people in colonial North Carolina who are called the regulators and that they're mad about something, |
| 1:19.9 | about unfair taxes and corruption. The show doesn't really make it all that clear. This season of |
| 1:26.2 | Outlander was roughly based on the novel Drums of Autumn, |
| 1:29.3 | which, to be clear, I haven't read. I also haven't read the next novel after that one, |
| 1:34.0 | which is called The Fiery Cross. And this episode is being recorded before the last episode |
| 1:39.1 | of this season of the TV show, but it's going to come out after. So I don't have any idea |
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