Join Jacob as he takes you through a journey into history. Covering various topics in American history, from the American Revolution, Pirates, to the Civil War, and other areas, we will try to show the stories that made us!
Join Jacob as he sits down with Dan Welch at Gettysburg National Military Park to discuss everything leading up to the battle and even some family history of Jacob's as well! Enjoy!
Join Jacob as he sits down with Chris Young to discuss the Battle of Chickamauga and the Battles surrounding Chattanooga! Enjoy!
Join Jacob as he sits down to talk about the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln's writing of it, and its legacy. Enjoy!
Join host Jacob as he sits down to discuss the Holocaust and United States reaction to it. Today's episode will also include a discussion on the War Refugee Board, anti-semitism, and World War 2. Enjoy!
Join Jacob as he sits down to discuss the history of several flags in America! Enjoy!
Join host Jacob as he sits down with Education Coordinator Lloyd to discuss the West Virginia Mine Wars. Today's episode will also include discussions on Baldwin-Felts, Sid Hatfield, and Mother Jones as well as women and their role in the Wars! Enjoy!
Join Jacob as he talks about Thomas Paine. Today's episode will also discuss Valley Forge, the French Revolution, and The Rights of Man. Enjoy!
Join Jacob as he discuss The Battle of Guilford Courthouse. This episode also includes discussion on the Regulator Movement, General Nathaniel Greene, and the Battle of Yorktown! Enjoy!
Join Jacob as he discuss the life and some of the important court cases of Chief Justice John Marshall. Today's episode also includes a discussion on the XYZ Affair, Aaron Burr, and the National Banks. Enjoy!
Join host Jacob as he discusses the life of Brigham Young! Today's episode will also discuss Joseph Smith, the Mormon Church, and the Utah War! Enjoy!
Join host Jacob as he discusses the life of Abigail Adams! Todays episode will also discuss slavery, women's rights, and the White House! Enjoy!
Join host Jacob as he discusses the murder of Emmett Till. Also included in today's episode is a talk on the Great Migration, sharecropping, and trials. Enjoy!
Join host Jacob as he sits down with author Alexander Rose to talk about his writing process, having a book turn into a TV Show, and his new work THE LION AND THE FOX: TWO RIVAL SPIES AND THE SECRET PLOT TO BUILD A CONFEDERATE NAVY. Enjoy! If you are interested you can join Alex's substack at https://alexanderrose.substack.com/
Join Jacob as he sits down with Christopher Everett, Director of Wilmington On Fire, a documentary on the Wilmington Massacre of 1898. We will discuss the documentary, reparations, and what Chris has coming up next! Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob as he sits down with Ray Flowers from Fort Fisher to talk about blockade running, the capture of the Fort, and what's new at the site! Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob as he is joined by Maggie from Harpers Ferry National Park to talk about all things John Brown Raid as well as a bunch of other fun history things! Enjoy!
Join Jacob as he discusses the Winter of 1609 in the Jamestown Colony, better known as The Starving Times. Also included in today's episode is a talk on John Rolfe, Pocahontas, and tobacco. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob as he discuss the Kent State Massacre. Also included in today's episode Is a talk on Vietnam, President Nixon, and music. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob as he continues Civil War History Month with another episode on a Civil War Prison Camp, Andersonville! Todays episode will also discuss the Raiders, Henry Wirz, and War Crimes. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob as he kicks off Civil War History Month with a discussion on Elmira Prison Camp! Today's episode also includes discussion of Prison breaks, Train Wrecks, and Life inside the Camp. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob as he discusses the lives and careers of Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and Timothy O'Sullivan and there goal to photograph the carnage of the American Civil War! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob as he discuss the road to securing freedom through the lives of Hiram Revels and Robert Smalls. Today episode also includes a discussion on the 13, 14, and 15 Amendment! Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob as he discusses the journey of the USCT's. Today's episode also includes talks about camp life, combat, and Medal of Honor winners! Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob as he is joined by Ali Bittles to talk all thing Ulysses Grant as well as a bunch of other fun things! Enjoy!
Join Jacob for Part Two of Wilmington 1898 and the violence that broke out in the North Carolina city. Todays episode includes discussion of violence, disenfranchisement, and banishment. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob today as he discusses the events leading up to the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898. Today's episode also includes a discussion of white supremacy and secret organizations! Enjoy --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob as he takes you thru the events lead up to and the fight that was the Rumble in the Jungle! Today's episode also includes brief overviews of the boxing careers of Muhammad Ali and George Foreman! Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob today as he discusses the contradiction between three Founding Fathers and the institution of slavery! Today's episode also includes a talk about Ben Franklin, James Madison, and Hamilton! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob as he invites his second guest Ali Kimlinger on to talk General John J. Pershing and anything else that might pop up!
Join Jacob as he invites his first guest Kevin Brigger on to talk Battlefield Preservation and anything else that might pop up!
Join Jacob as he discuss the dropping of the first atomic bomb of the Japanese city of Hiroshima and its effects. Today's episode will also include a discussion on the Manhattan Project, a little bit of science, and a brand new feature to the episode. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob as he talks about the rivalry between John Adam's and Alexander Hamilton that led to the downfall of the Federalist Party. Also discussed today is the Hamilton-Burr duel and the early lives of Hamilton and Adams. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob today as he discusses the Secession of North Carolina in 1861! The episode also has a discussion on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for volunteers! Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob today as he discusses Colonial Rhode Island and it's New England-ship. Today's episode also covers Cotton Mather, piracy in New England, and religious outcast. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob today as he discuss the Battle of the Carter in Petersburg, Virginia. Today's episode will also include a discussion on Union failures, United States' Colored Troops, and (of course) an explosion! Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob as he discusses the life, crimes, and death of Lewis Powell, Conspirator in the Lincoln Assassination. Today's episode will also dive into Powell's early life and his after-life! Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob today as he kicks off Civil War History Month with a discussion on the Surrender of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and how that surrender did not necessarily mean peace in the United States! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob today as he talks about the Battle of Blair Mountain and the impact of coal companies on this WV conflict! Today's episode also includes a brief talk on the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency and the United Mine Workers Union! Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob today as he discusses the discovery of GOLD!!!! in the North Georgia Mountains. There will also be a talk about Andrew Jackson, NFL team names, and even Mark Twain! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob today as he discuss the frontier upbringing of President Abraham Lincoln. You'll hear about how Lincoln's roots shaped him into the Great Emancipator! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob today as he discusses the death of one of the most infamous pirates of all time Blackbeard! Jacob will also discuss the influence on both Virginia and North Carolina after Blackbeard was killed off NC coast! Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob as he discusses the two battles for Fort Fisher near Wilmington, NC and how Civil War Blockade Runners and Failures by the Union contributed to these Battles. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob as he discusses the successful integration of Major League Baseball and the career of Jackie Robinson! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Today's episode explores the life of General Robert E. Lee after his surrender as well as his legacy and the memorializing of the Confederate Cause! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob today as he sits down for an interview at the James A. Garfield NHS to talk about the life of President Garfield, his death, and his legacy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join The History Book and Marshall Wesley's Campus Minister Benjamin Wells as we discuss the railroad industry, regulations, and the Staggers Act of 1980! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join The History Book as Jacob discusses the life and death of the (rumored) first female serial killer in the United States. This episode also briefly covers the formation of Highways and roads and the history of Charleston, SC! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join The History Book as we dive into the life and death of the American Poet Edgar Allan Poe! This episode includes a talk on the effects of Tuberculosis on not only Poe but the whole United States as well as the mystery that surrounds Poe Death! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join The History Book as we learn about the Convention that would send Abraham Lincoln into the White House and how he brought his rivals into his cabinet! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Jacob and special guest Austin Jeffers as they discuss the War of 1812 and the Battle of Lake Erie! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join The History Book as we discuss the flood that destroyed the town of Johnstown, PA! This episode will also cover the lives of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick and the Red Cross! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
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