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  • Cat's Eyes

    Cat's Eyes
    Jan 10 2026
    The story was told later in newsprint (January 10, 1943, Hanford, CA), folded into a Sunday paper in California, trimmed to fit a column and given a confident headline that promised reassurance to families far from the sea. It said there was never a dull moment for a submarine, and that submarine duty was not a job but a way of life. It said the night belonged to sharp eyes, steady nerves, and a skipper who knew when to act. All of that was true. None of it conveyed what the night of February 3, 1942 actually felt like aboard USS Searaven SS-196.
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    5 m
  • The Rubicon

    The Rubicon
    Jan 10 2026
    Rome did not fall in a day, and it did not fall because one man crossed a river. That is the version history likes because it is neat and dramatic and wrong in the ways that matter. The crossing of the Rubicon in 49 BC was not a sudden act of ambition. It was the final symptom of a republic that had been quietly coming apart for a generation. By the time Julius Caesar reached that narrow stream, the Roman political system was already jammed solid. Power had shifted away from institutions and toward personalities. Laws had become weapons. Compromise was treated as weakness. The Senate still spoke the language of tradition, but it no longer controlled events. When a system cannot resolve conflict through its own rules, it eventually hands the problem to force. This not about celebrating Caesar or condemning him. It is about understanding the machinery that failed before his boots ever touched the water. We will trace how informal alliances replaced law, how fear radicalized politics, and how a constitution designed for a city state collapsed under the weight of empire. The Rubicon matters not because it was crossed, but because by then there was nowhere else to go.
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  • Connecticut Ratifies

    Connecticut Ratifies
    Jan 9 2026
    In January 1788, the future of the American experiment advanced not with shouting crowds or dramatic reversals, but with a quiet vote in Connecticut. It was the fifth state to ratify the United States Constitution, and the outcome was never really in doubt. What makes this moment worth our attention is not the margin of victory, but the manner in which the decision was made. Connecticut was known then, as it often is now, for being steady, deliberate, and restrained. That temperament shaped how the state approached revolution, governance, and ultimately the Constitution itself. This video explores why that restraint mattered. Connecticut was not indifferent. It was cautious. Its delegates understood that the Constitution was imperfect, that power carried risks, and that liberty did not preserve itself automatically. They accepted the document not as an article of faith, but as a workable framework designed to survive uncertainty, foreign threats, and human fallibility. At the heart of the story is a simple idea. Union was not an abstract ideal. It was a matter of survival. Connecticut’s ratification helped legitimize the Constitution at a critical moment, proving it could earn the assent of the most careful members of the union. This is a story about decisions made without applause, and why those decisions often matter most.
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    27 m
  • Tolling of the Boats - January

    Tolling of the Boats - January
    Jan 7 2026
    January does not announce itself gently in naval history. It arrives cold, dark, and already carrying the weight of decisions made months or years earlier. For the United States submarine force, January became a recurring point of reckoning, a month when machinery, weather, navigation, and war itself seemed to conspire against boats already stretched thin. The losses that occurred during January across multiple years of the Second World War were not part of a single battle or campaign. They were scattered in geography and cause, but unified by circumstance. They tell a story not of failure, but of exposure, of a service operating at the edge of what men and steel could endure.
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    9 m
  • DDH - He Has Burnt Our Cities

    DDH - He Has Burnt Our Cities
    Jan 6 2026
    This week on Dave Does History with Bill Mick, the Liberty 250 series moves from pamphlets and protests into something far less abstract. Fire. Shells. Families running inland with what they can carry. A royal governor ruling from the deck of a warship because the land beneath him has rejected his authority. History stops being theoretical and starts burning.
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    34 m
  • 41 Cold War Sentinels - USS Samuel Rayburn SSBN-635

    41 Cold War Sentinels - USS Samuel Rayburn SSBN-635
    Jan 6 2026
    The USS Samuel Rayburn SSBN-635 entered the world quietly, as most serious things do, laid down in December 1962 while the Cuban Missile Crisis was still a fresh bruise on the national psyche. The men who authorized her construction did not need speeches or slogans to understand what they were building. They were responding to a moment when the margin for error had narrowed to the width of a human heartbeat. Submarines like Rayburn were conceived as insurance policies written in steel and uranium, meant never to be cashed, only to exist. She was commissioned on December 2, 1964 at Newport News, carrying the name of a Texas congressman who believed deeply in institutional endurance and disliked theatrical gestures. It was an oddly fitting namesake for a boat designed to remain unseen, unheard, and uncelebrated while doing the most consequential job imaginable.
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    6 m
  • WTF - Only (Need 100) Fans

    WTF - Only (Need 100) Fans
    Jan 4 2026
    In this episode, we wander cheerfully from missed dates and misplaced years into Venezuela, oil, China’s long game, and why shouting slogans is not the same thing as understanding history. We detour through California’s latest attempt to fix humanity by statute, ask whether public health works better with consent than compulsion, and then take a sharp turn into scripture, wisdom, and why King Solomon might not have been the relationship role model people think. And finally, we confront the modern truth. In the digital age, speech is free, but broadcasting requires permission. All we need is 100 followers. That is it. History has survived worse odds.
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    59 m
  • The Destroyer Killer

    The Destroyer Killer
    Jan 3 2026
    January 3, 1945 arrived quietly in Texas, but the news that settled over Dallas was anything but. The wire stories spoke with the cautious gravity of wartime language, careful not to say too much and yet saying enough. Commander Samuel David Dealey, one of the most successful submarine skippers in United States naval history, was missing in action. His boat, USS Harder, was overdue and presumed lost. For families who had learned to read between lines, that phrase carried the weight of finality. The Tyler Morning Telegraph ran the story beneath a headline that tried to balance pride and dread, calling Dealey a valiant hero of the Pacific while admitting what everyone already feared, that one of the war’s most aggressive and effective commanders had vanished into enemy waters and silence.
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    5 m
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