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HTP EP 25: Into the Furnace (PART TWO) Nov 05, 2021

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In our Season 2 Quarter 4 follow-up installment of the History Things Podcast, Matt and Pat hang out once again with author and historian Johnathan Bracken, who takes us through the tumultuous and violent years of 1916, 1917, & 1918 as the 151st French Infantry Regiment endured them.
Want to experience the full magic of this episode? Join us over on YouTube beginning on Friday November 26, 2021 as we launch our channel with a dramatic visual version of Johns presentation on the young and old men of the Verdun Regiment, who were thrown into the furnace of the First World War.
The History Things Podcast is brought to you by TR Historical, your one-stop shop for all your historical fang gear needs. Shop TRHistorical.com and use the promo code: HISTORY THINGS to receive 10% off your next purchase. Make sure to tell them Pat & Matt sent you!
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HTP EP 24: Into The Furnace (PART ONE) Oct 01, 2021

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In our Season 2 Quarter 4 installment of the History Things Podcast, Matt and Pat finally take the show to the Western Front: 1916, specifically to Verdun! In this episode we are joined by author and historian Johnathan Bracken who takes us through Part One of an amazingly detailed and at times horrific experience that the 151st Infantry Regiment of the French Army endured throughout the war and during the famous and terrible 11 month Battle of Verdun.
Want to experience the full magic of this episode? Join us over on YouTube beginning on Friday November 26, 2021 as we launch our channel with a dramatic visual version of Johns presentation on the young and old men of the Verdun Regiment, who were thrown into the furnace of the First World War.
The History Things Podcast is brought to you by TR Historical, your one-stop shop for all your historical fang gear needs. Shop TRHistorical.com and use the promo code: HISTORY THINGS to receive 10% off your next purchase. Make sure to tell them Pat & Matt sent you!
Want to stay up to date on the latest news and happenings here at The History Things Podcast? Make sure to follow us on social media at @TheHistoryThingsPodcast (Facebook & Instagram) and to leave us a 5star rating and review on your favorite podcast app! All questions, comments, and compliments can be sent to HistoryThingsPodcast@gmail.com
Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy the show!

HTP EP 23: Remembering 9/11 - 20 Years Later: A Reflection Sep 10, 2021

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In this special presentation by The History Things Podcast, co-Hosts Pat McGuire & Matt Borders take us back to that awful Tuesday in September 2001 with a haunting timeline of the events of that day. Additionally Matt & Pat engage in a discussion with each other about their memories of the days, weeks, months, and years that have followed in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington D.C., and Somerset County, Pennsylvania. This conversation features audio clips of news broadcasts of the events as they unfolded as well as audio clips from several friends, family members, and colleagues. The opinions expressed in these audio clips is their own.
This episode is dedicated to all those who lost their lives on that day, as well as in the coming years and wars to follow.
We will never forget.

HTP EP 22: One Fort/Three Wars Follow-up Sep 03, 2021

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It's time for the follow up episode for Quarter 3's "One Fort, Three Wars" with Maryland Park Ranger Rob Ambrose. Rob takes Pat and Matt into the 20th century history of Fort Frederick and how it developed into the state historic site it is today.
From the CCC and the Maryland Park System, as well as listener questions, this is a great conversation. Check it out!
The History Things Podcast is brought to you by TR Historical, your one-stop shop for all your historical fang gear needs. Shop TRHistorical.com and use the promo code: HISTORY THINGS to receive 10% off your next purchase. Make sure to tell them Pat & Matt sent you!
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HTP EP 21: The Revolutionary War in the Adirondacks Jul 30, 2021

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Keeping with our episode 3 theme of colonial and revolutionary history, The History Things Podcast has a bonus episode for you! Pat and Matt speak with author, historian and podcaster, Marie Williams about her book, The Revolutionary War in the Adirondacks: Raids in the Wilderness. This was a great conversation looking into one of the lesser known theaters of the Revolutionary War, upstate New York. Come to find out, there was a lot more happening there than just the 1777 Saratoga Campaign.
So checkout Marie's work with her podcast The Half-pint Historian and look for The Revolutionary War in the Adirondacks wherever books are sold!
The History Things Podcast is brought to you by TR Historical, your one-stop shop for all your historical fang gear needs. Shop TRHistorical.com and use the promo code: HISTORY THINGS to receive 10% off your next purchase. Make sure to tell them Pat & Matt sent you!
Make sure to follow us on social media at @TheHistoryThingsPodcast (Facebook & Instagram) and to leave us a 5star rating and review on your favorite podcast app! All questions, comments, and compliments can be sent to HistoryThingsPodcast@gmail.com
Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy the show!

HTP EP 20: One Fort/Three Wars Jul 01, 2021

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The second half of Season 2 gets under way with a great conversation with our very good friend, Rob Ambrose. Rob is a Park Ranger who wears many different hats for Fort Frederick State Park, which is the site of the French and Indian War era stone fortification known as Fort Frederick. About 20 miles west of Hagerstown, Maryland and just a mile off of the Rt. 70 exit at Big Pool & Indian Springs, is the location of one of the coolest historical sites you likely never have heard of... well... WE ARE ABOUT TO CHANGE ALL THAT!
Rob was gracious enough to bring to podcast life his living history program that he puts on annually known as "One Fort, Three Wars." Built by the English during the mid 1750s, Rob takes us through the old stone forts history and its experience as "edge of the world," fort through the French and Indian war, its use as a prison (think Andersonville from the American Civil War) during the American Revolution, and as a place for Federal soldiers to loosely use and harass Confederate troops and cavalry across the Potomac River on and off during the American Civil War!
The History Things Podcast is brought to you by TR Historical, your one-stop shop for all your historical fang gear needs. Shop TRHistorical.com and use the promo code: HISTORY THINGS to receive 10% off your next purchase. Make sure to tell them Pat & Matt sent you!
Make sure to follow us on social media at @TheHistoryThingsPodcast (Facebook & Instagram) and to leave us a 5star rating and review on your favorite podcast app! All questions, comments, and compliments can be sent to HistoryThingsPodcast@gmail.com
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HTP EP 19: Season 2 MID YEAR REVIEW 2021 Jun 01, 2021

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BOOM! And just like that we have made to the halfway point of our Season 2 adventure here on The History Things Podcast! Here at our second midyear look at the show, Pat and Matt take stock of subjects they have covered, updates and upgrades to the production of the show itself, as well as updates from some of their personal endeavors! The fellas also reflect on the guests they have been honored to have had on the show along the war thus far into Season 2! Lastly, the mid year review closes out with a look ahead at what's to come with the monumental second half of season, so make sure you stick around, because there is plenty more coming from The History Things Podcast in the very near future!
Make sure to follow us on social media at @TheHistoryThingsPodcast (Facebook & Instagram) and to leave us a 5star rating and review on your favorite podcast app! All questions, comments, and compliments can be sent to HistoryThingsPodcast@gmail.com
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HTP EP 18: Lincoln Assassination Follow-up May 19, 2021

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In our Quarter 2 follow-up, Pat and Matt are joined once again by special guest Coby Treadway, the Education Coordinator at the Surratt House Tavern Museum in Clinton, Maryland! In Q2 we spent nearly 5 hours discussing the depths of the murder plots and assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at the conclusion of the American Civil War, and in this installment, we conclude our story with the aftermath of the assassination and manhunt. In this episode we cover the trial, sentencing, and executions of John Wilkes Booth's co-conspirators and the various legacies that endure to this very day!
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HTP EP 17: Murder at Ford's Theater Apr 30, 2021

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In our first bonus episode of Season 2, we hang out with our very good friend Jana Friesen McCabe, who is currently the Chief of Interpretation and Guest Services at Monocacy National Battlefield. Previously in Jana's career in the Park Service, she spent time as an interpretive ranger at Ford's Theater, site of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln! We thought it would be super cool to get her unique perspective on the murder plot and assassination of President Lincoln as it pertained to Ford's Theater!
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HTP EP 16: The Lincoln Assassination Apr 01, 2021

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In our Season 2, Quarter 2 installment, Pat and Matt have an epically huge episode in-store! We sat down in our newly renovated (still in progress lol) War Department Studio with special guest Coby Treadway to discuss at length about the plot(s) to kidnap and eventually the plot(s) to murder Abraham Lincoln, President Of The United States! Coby is the Acting-Director as well as the Education Coordinator for the Surratt House Tavern Museum in Clinton, Maryland!
Make sure to follow us on social media at @TheHistoryThingsPodcast (Facebook & Instagram) and to leave us a 5star rating and review on your favorite podcast app! All questions, comments, and compliments can be sent to HistoryThingsPodcast@gmail.com

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