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It's Not History
by Its Not History
A podcast about understanding what happens in the past doesn’t always stay there
Episodes
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Olympia: Episode 3- Teddy starts a World War -Part 1
In this episode, I follow a pencil-scrawled telegram from a burning harbor in Havana straight into the offices of two warring newspaper tycoons and the clubroom of a future president who'd been dreaming of exactly this fight since college. It's a story that involves yellow journalism, a…
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Olympia: Episode 2- Trouble in the Tortugas
In this episode, I sail in a small boat to a remote string of islands and the largest brick fortress in the Americas, one which began sinking into the sand the moment it was finished. It's a story that involves Cuban revolutionaries, Spanish silver mines and how a pile of wet coal in the wrong...
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Olympia: Ep 1 - How to forge an empire, and then have breakfast
In this series we discover how a bizarre, beautiful, steampunk hybrid called USS Olympia, a ship I first came to know as a kid, destroyed one empire, birthed another. Then had breakfast. It’s a story that involves a (literal) mountain of silver, how Hoagies came to be and why coal, battleships…
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The Conestoga Dilemma: Historic preservation when there is no 'thing' left.
In this episode, recorded before a live audience in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, we look at Conestoga Town through a different lens: the challenge of historic preservation without physical artifacts. Looking for inspiration, we discover 27 miles of fabric and cans of red spray paint. What happens…
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The Hidden Fortress: Episode 5 - Found
In this, the final episode of this series, my family discovers a new war and a new fortress in the fields of Negiuchi. The B-29 Super Fortress. Much is lost. But some things are found. And saved.
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The Hidden Fortress: Episode 4 - The Three Unifiers
For 150 years during the Sengoku Jidai, thousands of men, both distinguished and noble men, had a go at making all of Japan theirs. Three men made it happen. One was labeled a fool, another was born a peasant, and the last established a dynasty. An omnipotent dynasty powerful enough to rule all…
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The Hidden Fortress: Episode 3 - The New Hojo
In this episode, the poster child of the Sengoku-jidai rebrands himself and marches north - picking up three provinces, 80,000 guys, millions of barrels of rice, and a few dozen castles. One of these castles is my castle. Negiuch-jo. Meet the new Hojo clan.
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The Hidden Fortress: Episode 2 - How did we get here?
In this episode, we look at how my 500-year-old survived both a 16th-century civil war and 20th-century bulldozers. And how one of the clues to its survival is in another field. One in Pennsylvania, named Gettysburg.
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The Hidden Fortress: Episode 1 - Wait...what castle?
Why is there a 500 year old Samurai Castle in my yard? Negiuchi Castle stood at a turning point in the struggle for unity in medieval Japan. Once the tip of the spear of one the most powerful clan in the Sengoku-jidai - The Age of Warring States. Today it's nearly forgotten, hidden in a forest...
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Conestoga Town: Episode 22- Still Here: Part 2
We conclude this series and season with the answer to the question 'What happened to the people the rivers are name after'—the second part of our interview with Michael Mantooth of the Conestoga Susquehannock tribe.
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Conestoga Town: Episode 21- Still Here
In which the question that started this whole series - 'What happened to the people the rivers are named after " is finally answered. By the people the rivers are named after.
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Conestoga Town: Episode 20- Gandestoga and Modern Memory
In this, our next-to-last episode, we get ‘meta’ and look at the story of the ‘Paxtons and Conestoga’ as just that—a story. We also examine how that story has been retold, manipulated, appropriated, and occasionally fabricated over nearly 300 years in print, prose, movies, television, and, best…
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Conestoga Town: Episode 19 - The New Frontier
In which we see how the impact of the Paxton Boys' violence and the complicity of the colonial elite extended far beyond the immediate victims, shaping the political landscape of colonial America and contributing to the growing tensions that would eventually lead to the American Revolution....
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Conestoga Town: Trailer
Conestoga Town is an opportunity to delve into a hidden chapter of American history, one that challenges our understanding of the nation's origins and the very foundation upon which it was built. A story that is only now being uncovered. And likely one that you and your audience have never heard...
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Conestoga Town: Episode 18 - The Accomplice
Over this series, we've uncovered many hidden, unexpected, and surprising things. Today we get the most head-spinning of all. Because the Paxtons, in their wake, kicked off another war. A war that would shortly blow up the political landscape and ultimately the government of Pennsylvania and send...
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Conestoga Town: Episode 17 - Declarations
In this episode, we look at two of the foundational treatises of America. One explores the rights of men the other explores the justification for exterminating Native Americans. The two documents could not be more different but they share some shocking similarities and convergences -including the...
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Conestoga Town: Episode 16 - The March on the Capital
After destroying Conestoga Town and massacring its inhabitants a new larger Paxton army rises in the backcountry of Lancaster County and marches east over frozen fields to destroy Indians sheltered in Philadelphia and anyone helping them. They are stopped by a man with a pen.
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Conestoga Town: Episode 15 - Shikata ga nai
In this episode, we see that- it didn't have to be like this. Not all powerful men seek to make their massacres seem just. And that the brave can seek justice and are swayed by mercy.
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Conestoga Town: Episode 14 - Who Knew
Evidence not seen for nearly 300 years is discovered in a long-forgotten archive. Evidence that reveals an answer to the question of why the Conestoga was murdered, who knew about it even before it happened - and could have stopped it.
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Conestoga Town: Episode 13 - Response
In the wake of the destruction of the Conestoga Town community, Native Americans react with outrage; in the Settler community, women and men of letters respond with shock and horror. Among the colonial elites supporters of the Paxtons emerge from the shadows.
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Conestoga Town: Episode 12 - The Massacre of the Conestoga
The Paxton militia, believing that all Indians are now the enemy, launch a genocidal campaign and ride to Conestoga Town.
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Conestoga Town: Episode 11 - 1763 and The (first) American Revolution - Pontiac’s War
1763: English America gets a continent. Native America launches a war of independence. And on the Frontier between the two, pacifist Quakers fund an army. The Paxton Rangers.
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Conestoga Town: Episode 10 - The (first) First World War
The first, First World War begins—not in Sarajevo, but in Pennsylvania—when a young Virginia Plantation owner and part-time Army officer walks into a room full of gunpowder with a lit match. And sets the world ablaze.
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Conestoga Town: Episode 9 - Paxton
With William Penn gone, Pennsylvania begins its transformation from a Peaceable Kingdom to a violent frontier. Leading this, a new wave of settlers establish a base of operation at a place they name Paxton.
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Conestoga Town: Episode 8 - Gandestogue
We explore the mystery of how a people's homeland becomes larger and more powerful... after they leave the land behind. And a man is saved from execution by an army of ghosts…with knives.
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Conestoga Town: Episode 7 - "Queen of the Pamunkey"
In which a woman emerges from the Great Dragon Swamp to create one of the most essential and enduring documents in America. And she did it her way. Meet Cockacoeske "Queen of the Pamunkey"
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Conestoga Town: Episode 6 - A Peaceable Kingdom
In which a man goes from an English prison to becoming the largest private landowner in the world. Then he creates a Peaceable Kingdom in America founded on equality and equanimity - for everyone. It almost works.
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Conestoga Town: Episode 5 - Bacon and Exile
The Susquehannock find sanctuary - and civil war - in Virginia. A war started by America's first heartland populist. And a pig.
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Conestoga Town: Episode 4 - Not Your Continent
In this episode, we look at the time when Europeans and Indigenous Americans first met and the lethal impact it had on both groups. And how both silver and clam shells can make and destroy economies.
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Conestoga Town: Episode 3 - Way Back
In this episode, we go back, all the way back, to a time that is older and stranger than you probably imagined to meet the first Pennsylvanians and follow their journey across the millennia.
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Conestoga Town: Episode 2 - The Scene of the Crime
In this episode, we return to the scene of the crime, Lancaster, PA, where the Massacre of the Conestoga happened. Searching for primary sources in a basement and a wax museum, we try to figure out how we know what we think we know and discover why it's nearly impossible to return Native American...
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Conestoga Town: Episode 1 - Into the Cold
A personal exploration of how two groups, the Conestoga and the Paxtons, in 1763, set the blueprint for the relationship between Settlers and Native Americans going forward. Their conflict helped launch two separate and parallel Wars of Independence. One you know all about, the other you have...
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A podcast about understanding what happens in the past doesn’t always stay there
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