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  • Religious Freedom

    Religious Freedom
    Jan 16 2026
    In January of 1786, a quiet vote in the Virginia General Assembly changed the way the modern world understands belief, power, and conscience. There were no parades, no ringing bells, and no sense that history had just pivoted. Yet with the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, something ancient finally loosened its grip. For the first time, a government walked away from controlling belief and trusted its people to carry faith, doubt, and conviction on their own. This story is not about abstract philosophy or tidy slogans. It is about jail cells and tax collectors, about preachers hauled into court, about lawmakers who feared that liberty might unravel moral order. It is about Thomas Jefferson writing a law that dared to claim the human mind was created free, and James Madison fighting to defend that idea when compromise seemed safer. It is also about ordinary Virginians, Baptists, Presbyterians, and dissenters who refused to keep paying for a church they did not belong to. The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom did not promise harmony. It promised restraint. It did not elevate religion or suppress it. It stepped aside. In this episode, we walk through the long road to that decision, the battles that nearly derailed it, and the legacy it left behind, one that still shapes the First Amendment and the global understanding of freedom of conscience today.
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    6 m
  • Vermont

    Vermont
    Jan 15 2026
    January in the Green Mountains has never been gentle. It strips away comfort, soft thinking, and easy assumptions. In that kind of cold, people tend to tell the truth, or at least the version of it they are willing to live with. On January 15, 1777, a group of settlers gathered in a small courthouse in Westminster and did something the American story still struggles to categorize. They declared independence, not from a distant king alone, but from a neighboring colony that claimed ownership of their land, their labor, and their future. This is not a tale of powdered wigs and polished speeches. It is a story rooted in mud, timber, disputed deeds, and men who had already learned that law could be used as a weapon. Vermont did not drift into independence on a philosophical breeze. It fought its way there through land disputes, court orders, whippings in the woods, and blood spilled on courthouse steps. The revolution here was practical before it was idealistic. For fourteen years, Vermont existed as something awkward and unresolved, a republic without recognition, a state before it was allowed to be one. In that space, it experimented boldly, sometimes uncomfortably, with ideas of liberty, labor, and power. This video walks through that uneasy birth, not as legend, but as lived history, fingerprints still visible on the banister.
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    7 m
  • DDH - It's Just Common Sense!

    DDH - It's Just Common Sense!
    Jan 13 2026
    Philadelphia did not merely witness rebellion. It engineered amplification. This episode opens in a city that understood a hard, unfashionable truth. Ideas do not change history because they are elegant. They change history because they are repeated until they feel unavoidable. Philadelphia was not built for reverie. It was built for movement. Goods, rumors, sermons, pamphlets, all circulating with the same restless energy. If an idea could not survive contact with ink, paper, and working hands, it did not last long . By early 1776, the argument for independence was no longer a polite theory. It was a physical object. Folded. Smudged. Passed hand to hand. Sometimes read aloud by men who barely read at all. This was not the hush of a library. It was the racket of a print shop doing what print shops do best, turning thought into force. Thomas Paine did not sound like a philosopher auditioning for posterity. He sounded like
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    36 m
  • Ink, Mittens and Treason

    Ink, Mittens and Treason
    Jan 12 2026
    January 1776 is usually remembered as a moment of clarity. Common Sense appears, the fog lifts, and independence suddenly feels inevitable. But that is not how it actually happened. This episode tells the messier story, the human one. A story about cold winters and empty pockets. About a radical writer who believed words could change the world, and a flamboyant printer who believed controversy could sell anything. About a handshake deal that collapsed, money that vanished, mittens that were never bought, and a pamphlet that escaped everyone’s control. Common Sense did not spread because it was orderly or polite. It spread because it was cheap, stolen, argued over, and fought about in public. Its impact came not just from what it said, but from how it was printed, pirated, and pushed into the streets. This is the story behind the ink. And why the American Revolution was never as tidy as we like to remember.
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    8 m
  • Viral, But Not Verified

    Viral, But Not Verified
    Jan 11 2026
    Here is the introduction. --- There are moments in history when the loudest sound is silence. When something real is happening, dangerous, destabilizing, and profoundly human, yet the headlines barely whisper. Iran may be in one of those moments right now. Reports of widespread protests are filtering out, uneven, fragmented, hard to verify. Rumors are filling the gaps, some reckless, some hopeful, some deliberately false. And meanwhile, much of the Western media seems oddly restrained, as if this story does not quite fit the categories it knows how to tell. Tonight, we are not here to sell certainty. We are here to ask why uncertainty is being handled so selectively. Why protests against a clerical regime struggle for oxygen. Why silence becomes policy when narratives collide with ideology. History teaches us this much. Revolutions do not always announce themselves politely. Sometimes they arrive half seen, badly explained, and remembered later with embarrassment by those who looked away. Here is the thing. When the noise goes quiet, that is often when you should lean in and listen hardest.
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    1 h
  • Hamilton!

    Hamilton!
    Jan 11 2026
    Alexander Hamilton entered the world already marked by circumstances that polite society preferred not to discuss. He was born in the British West Indies, on the island of Nevis, the son of James Hamilton and Rachel Faucette Lavien. Even the year of his birth remains uncertain, likely 1755 or 1757, which is fitting for a man whose life never quite fit clean categories. Illegitimacy was not merely a social embarrassment in the eighteenth century. It was a legal condition, one that followed a person like a brand. From the beginning, Hamilton was defined less by what he was than by what he was not permitted to be.
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    5 m
  • 41 Cold War Sentinels - USS Alexander Hamilton SSBN-617

    41 Cold War Sentinels - USS Alexander Hamilton SSBN-617
    Jan 11 2026
    The USS Alexander Hamilton entered the Cold War quietly, which was the only acceptable way to enter it. When her keel was laid at Electric Boat in Groton in June 1961, the United States was still learning how to live with nuclear weapons without letting them consume every waking thought. Strategy had moved beyond bombers and bravado. What mattered now was endurance. The Hamilton was conceived as a patient thing, meant to vanish beneath the surface and stay vanished, carrying consequences that no adversary could afford to ignore. She would become one of the Forty One for Freedom, a fleet built not to fight wars, but to prevent them by making certainty impossible.
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    5 m
  • 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
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