It's Not History

About It's Not History

A podcast about understanding what happens in the past doesn’t always stay there

Publisher

Its Not History

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Jul 2024

Latest episode

1 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 32 episodes have a transcript.

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   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Olympia: Episode 3- Teddy starts a World War -Part 1

   Host [Host Name] explores how Teddy Roosevelt's ambition and yellow journalism ignited the Spanish-American War, revealing the unlikely path to American empire.

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   3 Jun 2026

   Olympia: Episode 2- Trouble in the Tortugas

   In this episode, I sail in a small boat to a remote string of islands and the largest brick fortress in the Americas, one which began sinking into the sand the moment it was finished. It's a story that involves Cuban revolutionaries, Spanish silver mines and how a pile of wet coal in the wrong place can sink a battleship and an empire. And how the truth about what actually happened took almost a century to float to the surface.

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   20 May 2026

   Olympia: Ep 1 - How to forge an empire, and then have breakfast

   In this serries we discover how a bizarre, beautiful, steampunk hybrid called USS Olympia, a ship I first came to know as a kid, destroyed one empire, birthed another. Then had breakfast. It’s a story that involves a (literal) mountain of silver, how Hoagies came to be and why coal, battleships and revolutions are a terrible combination. And how America first tried on becoming an empire. And decided it didn’t fit.

Inside a recent episode

Olympia: Episode 3- Teddy starts a World War -Part 1

Published 1 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Like Benjamin Franklin, he was both very much a man of his time and a man out of time. Roosevelt, not unlike Franklin, is a seemingly bottomless well of energy, intelligence, and accomplishment. And yeah, he was born on third base and halfway home. His family was rich, old money New York rich, and his father, Theodore Sr., an imperious and influential knickerbocker, But even so, Theodore Jr.? What he accomplished is staggering, especially considering how he started out. You look at the older Roosevelt, stout, presidential, and vigorous, and it's hard to imagine that he actually began life as a brunt. […]

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

22 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

23 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

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Quality

37

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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