In case you missed it, earlier today I published my 4+ hour Dangerous History Podcast episode on the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 that killed 34 Americans, wounded 171 & nearly sank the ship. Check it out! image
Happy REAL declaration of independence day! 250 years ago, on 4/19/1775, thousands of average Americans, acting on their own local initiative, confronted the Redcoats & declared their independence with blood & bullets. (The fancy powdered-wig guys in Philly would take almost 15 months to catch up & declare it with ink & parchment.) To commemorate, I've just reissued Dangerous History Ep. 59 (made a decade ago!), which is part II of my American Revolution series. image
“There are twenty million Germans too many.” -French PM Georges Clemenceau, Dec.1918, on keeping the starvation blockade against Germany despite the armistice I just can’t imagine why the Germans would be spoiling for revenge a generation later. 🤷‍♂️
In case you missed it, yesterday I dropped a new DHP Woodrow Wilson episode. In this one, he makes the most important & worst decision of his life, a decision that’s still negatively impacting the US & much of the rest of the world to this day: getting the US into WW1. image