The History of North America podcast is a sweeping historical saga of the United States,

Canada, and Mexico from their deep origins to our present epoch.

Join me, Mark Vinet, on this exciting, fascinating epic journey through time, focusing on the compelling,

wonderful, and tragic stories of North America's inhabitants, heroes, villains, leaders,

environment, and geography.

I invite you to come along for the ride.

History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts.

It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here.

Welcome to the History and Plug podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange,

and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is.

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

A couple of generations ago, if you wanted to learn about the Revolutionary War,

the best book was Christopher Ward's two volume treatise, The War of the Revolution,

and it was published in 1952.

A whole bunch of new studies have come out since then, the David McCullough books,

Ron Churno, who wrote Hamilton, and biography on Washington,

and over the last 20 years, several studies of the War have appeared in print.

Field surprise winning historian Rick Adkinson has finished the first volume of his new trilogy

about the Revolutionary War and his well into research about the second.

Interestingly enough, even though the American War for Independence happened nearly 250 years ago,

it's a relatively new field of study.

Historians are exploring parts of it for the first time,

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