Star-Spangled Studies Teaser: Your Guided Tour Through U.S. History | American Yawp Preview

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Hello, y'all.

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It's me.

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It's me.

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It's Dr.

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G, and welcome to Star Spangled.

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Studies a new podcast journey

through the sprawling, complicated,

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and absolutely fascinating

history of these United States.

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Now, you might be wondering about the

name of our guide for this journey.

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For the first two seasons, we're

going to be following the path laid

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out by the fantastic, massively

collaborative open source US history

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textbook called The American yawp.

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And if you're asking, what

on earth is a yawp, well then

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you're asking the right question.

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The name comes from the Great American

poet Walt Whitman, who in: 1855

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wrote, I sound my barbaric yawp over

the roofs of the world End quote.

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A yawp is a raucous noise, a

bit of rough, vigorous language,

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and that is what US history is.

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It's not a single, quiet, neat story.

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It is a loud, often

conflicting chorus of voices.

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It's a history that you can find

in the marbled halls of government,

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sure, but also in the crowded slave

cabins, the bustling city markets,

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and the congested tenements.

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It's a story of dynamism and conflict

of resistance and cultural creation,

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and our goal here is to listen to

as many of those ops as we can.

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So here's how we're going to do this.

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We're launching our first two

seasons available all at once

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for you to binge Think of these.

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First two seasons, 30 episodes in total as

your foundational college survey course.

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This is your US History 1 0 1 or 1 0

2, and we'll start before the first

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European arrived in indigenous America.

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And we'll travel chronologically

all the way up to the recent past.

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We'll cover the big topics, colonization,

the American Revolution, slavery,

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the Civil War reconstruction.

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The World Wars, the Cold Wars,

and everything in between.

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We're building the framework, drawing

the big map of the American past,

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and this is essential background.

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You will need to make sense of it

all, but this isn't the end point.

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This is just the beginning.

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Once we've built that foundation

together, we're going to start

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season three, and that's where the

real deep dive into history begins.

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Week after week, we'll go back to

the map we've drawn and we'll explore

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specific corners in much greater detail.

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For example, in season one, we'll

have an episode on the era of religion

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and reform, but in a future season,

we're gonna spend an entire episode

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on the utopian community at Anita.

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And they're radical ideas about marriage

or family, or another one just on the life

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of the abolitionist Frederick Douglas.

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We'll also talk about manifest destiny

in season one, but later on we might

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devote an entire show to the Cherokee

Trail of Tears or the forgotten

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stories of the California Gold Rush.

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The first two seasons are designed

to give you the breadth of US

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History, a basic ground level study.

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Season three, we're gonna go beyond

and we're gonna give you the depth.

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This is a scholarly podcast.

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I'm a professional historian and I promise

to keep this factually accurate, to

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engage with the latest historical debates

and to ground our stories in primary

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sources, the raw materials of history.

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But this isn't going to

be a dry, boring lecture.

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History is more than that.

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It is about people, and people are

messy, but they're also inspiring.

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And endlessly interesting.

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I tell my students that there

is no story that you can think

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of that is more fascinating than

what's happened in the past.

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And we are going to find the narrative,

the hooks and the human drama that's

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gonna make that past go alive.

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So get ready.

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We're about to embark on

an incredible journey.

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Let's start at the beginning.

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Go ahead and jump into season one,

episode one of Indigenous America, and

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I'll meet you at the beginning of season

three when we start our deep dives.

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I'm Dr.

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G.

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This is Star Spangled Studies,

and I'll see y'all in the past.