American History Hotline
Hosted by Bob and Bob Crawford · Scratch Track Productions
4.3from 172 ratings
- 70
- Episodes
- 48
- Transcribed
- 172
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
- 419M
- YouTube views
About American History Hotline
Bob Crawford searches for the best historians and experts to answer listener questions about American history — from the Revolutionary War to rock & roll feuds. Got a question? Send it to AmericanHistoryHotline@gmail.com.
- Publisher
- Scratch Track Productions
- Category
- education · history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 Apr 2025
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
48 of 70 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Tuscarora Jack: Patriot or Villain?
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
When Presidents and Vice Presidents Don't Get Along
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Accurate Was The Oregon Trail Game? The Real History Behind America's Most Famous Video Game | Sarah Keyes
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Tuscarora Jack: Patriot or Villain?
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's inland. about 10 to 12 miles from where the Atlantic breaks. So what are these early settlements in Beaufort like? Well, the earliest settlements were cattle and deerskins trading with the Indians. Now we're talking about the late 1600s. There was a man named Thomas Nairn, who was one of the Scots, Scottish man who was one of the early settlers here. And he and John Barnwell are generally credited with founding Beaufort in 1711, uh, founding the town of Beaufort. And so, um, Nairn was, uh, uh, an Indian trader. He met a horrible fate when the, uh, Yemesee Indians rose up on Good Friday in April of 1715. […]
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- John Warley
- Elaine Kamarck
- Sarah Keyes
- Peter Bergen
- Lindsay Chervinsky
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 419,109,926
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 138 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 34 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100
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- Quality
- 77
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 84
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Who hosts American History Hotline?
Bob and Bob Crawford host the show. Published by Scratch Track Productions.
How often do new episodes come out?
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