- 023: Thoughts on the 2026 Iran War
America: Secret Wars Season 2 kicks off with Trevor, Roberto, and Ben discussing current events in the 2026 Iran-Israel-US War. We talked a lot about the foreseeable consequences of the conflict, it's place in history, and a relatively long tangent about Muppets to break up the darkness.
The History of Saqartvelo Georgia https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historysaqartvelogeorgia
Tsar Power https://tsarpowerpod.weebly.com/
Quest for Power https://quest-for-power.captivate.fm/
Wittenberg to Westphalia https://wittenbergtowestphaliapodcast.weebly.com/
Why Tho? A Personal Journey Through my Record Collection https://shows.acast.com/why-tho-podcast
Step Back - the Iran war is SO much worse than you think - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovd33yfxoPk
LiveUAMap - https://iran.liveuamap.com/
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street - https://bookshop.org/p/books/street-gang-the-complete-history-of-sesame-street-michael-davis/c168ea5e423e65c9?ean=9780143116639&next=t
S2E23 - 1h 22m - Apr 28, 2026 - 022: How Al-Qaeda Invaded Georgia
The years immediately after 9/11 were a weird time. Every adult in the world went a little insane. The US and Putin's Russia were intelligence allies. Al-Qaeda really was inside Georgia - just not that one by Roberto of altogether too many projects to discuss the Pankisi Gorge Crisis, and how US training and advisors helped combat both fundamentalist insurgents and anti-corruption protestors. Roberto is the host of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and co-host of Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) and Quest for Power.
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Quest for Power https://quest-for-power.captivate.fm/
Leupp - Georgia and the War on Terrorism
Manning - Folklore and Terror in Georgia’s ‘Notorious’ Pankisi Gorge
The AP - Green Berets Land in Georgia For 2-Year Training Program
Bush - Presidential Letter, September 19, 2003
Bush - Presidential Letter, March 20, 2004
Cecire - How extreme are the Extremists? Pankisi Gorge as a Case Study
Filkins - U.S. Entangled in Mystery of Georgia’s Islamic Fighters
GlobalSecurity.org - Georgia Train and Equip Program (GTEP)
Grennan - Georgia's Pankisi Gorge and the Global War Against Terrorism
McGregor - Ricin Fever: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the Pankisi Gorge
Menabde - Pankisi Gorge: A Resurgent Flashpoint in Georgia?
Myers - World Briefing\Europe: Georgia: Region Under Control
Quinn-Judge - The Surprise In the Gorge
Traynor - Georgia: US opens new front in war on terror
USDoS - Country Reports on Terrorism 2021: Georgia
Welt - Shaking up the System: Georgia and the War on Terror
S1E22 - 1h 11m - Aug 5, 2025 - 021: The Pig War (Canadian Almost War 5)
America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 5, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Pig War and the boundary disputes that gave us Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
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Unfortunately, production on this series has been a nightmare and the full bibliography was lost in a technical error (not realizing my laptop had disconnected from wifi and stopped auto-saving). Here is an abbreviated version:
Coleman - The Pig War: The Most Perfect War in History
Shewmaker - Daniel Webster and the Oregon Question Available to Purchase
Polk - First Annual Message to Congress
Vancouver - A chart shewing part of the coast of N.W. America
S1E21 - 1h 37m - Jun 8, 2025 - 20: The Creole Case (Canadian Almost War 4)
America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 4, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Creole Case, the struggle for emancipation in antebellum America, and how the slaver states wanted to use a war against British Canada to their own advantage.
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Jervey and Huber - The Creole Affair
Jones - The Influence of SLavery on the Webster-Ashburton Negotiations
National Archives - The Amistad Case
Rediker - The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
Sorrell and Berry - This 1841 Rebellion at Sea Freed More Than 100 Enslaved People
S1E20 - 1h 19m - Apr 28, 2025 - 019: The Patriot War (Canadian Almost War 3)
America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 3, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Patriot War, a failed Canadian Revolution where the US somehow managed to fight and lose on both sides.
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Guillet - The lives and times of the patriots; an account of the Rebellion in Upper Canada
Bonthius - The Patriot War of 1837-1838: Locofocoism with a Gun?
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Ducharme - Closing the Last Chapter of the Atlantic Revolution
Forcese - Destroying the Caroline: The Frontier Raid that Reshaped the Right to War
Kilbourn - The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada
Kinchen - The Rise and Fall of the Patriot Hunters
Read - The Rising in Western Upper Canada 1837-8: The Duncombe Revolt and After
Sewell: Mackenzie: A Political Biography
Waxman - The Caroline Affair in the Evolving International Law of Self-Defense
S1E19 - 1h 46m - Mar 30, 2025 - 018: The Aroostook War (Canadian Almost War 2)
America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 2, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Aroostook War, a conflict between the United States, British New Brunswick, and the forces of nature.
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Aroostook War Songs:
Greenwood & Burns - Aroostook War Fighting Song
Wallace House - The Soldier Song (Aroostook War)
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Campbell and Campbell - The Aroostook War of 1839
Meander Maine - The Pork and Beans War
Paradis - John Baker and the Republic of Madawaska
S1E18 - 1h 51m - Mar 16, 2025 - Live Show at Intelligent Speech!!!
Intelligent Speech 2025 is coming! The event will feature a gathering of excellent history podcasters THIS SATURDAY. That’s FEBRUARY 8, 2025 at 10:00am US Eastern Time for an all day event featuring presentations, panels, and live Q&A with a ton of history podcasts. If that doesn’t convince you, this episode is last year’s History of Persia Presentation. Get those tickets ASAP!!!
Get tickets to Intelligent Speech February 8, 2025!
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S1 - 40m - Feb 6, 2025 - 017: The Republic of Indian Stream (Canadian Almost War 1)
America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 1, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the fascinating little Republic of Indian Stream.
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Brown - The Struggle for the Indian Stream Territory
Showerman - The Indian Stream Republic and Luther Parker
Tsai - America’s Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community
S1E17 - 1h 48m - Feb 3, 2025 - 016: Occupation and Genocide in Croatia
Trevor is joined by Aurora and Roberto from Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) to form an unholy alliance of altogether too many podcasts and discuss how the United States occupied a slice of the Croatian coast after World War 1 and helped the newly formed Yugoslavia fend off Italian nationalists. Also, the Italians invent fascism along the way.
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Swords, Sorcery, and Socialism https://swordsandsocialismpod.buzzsprout.com/
Davidonis 1943 - American Naval Mission in the Adriatic, 1918-1921
Davidonis 1945 - American Naval Mission In The Adriatic, 1918-1921
Hughes-Hallett - Gabriele d'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War
Imperial Valley Press 27 - Knox Queries About Marines
Jakir - Reactions in Dalmatia to the Treaty of Rapallo 1920
James - Says Serb Troops Recaptured Trogir
Morning Press 48.23 - U.S. Navy Ousts Italians From Dalmation City
Nye - Dalmatia, Centre of War’s Shifting Spotlight
NYT - U.S. Marines Saved Italians At Trogir
NYT - Trogir Recovered Without A Fight By Olympia’s Men
San Luis Obispo Daily Telegram 178 - Senate Wants Facts As To Landing
Simonelli - The lions' retaliation: D'Annunzio and the italian nationalist mythology in Dalmatia
S1E16 - 1h 37m - Oct 29, 2024 - 015: Teresa Urrea and the Yaqui Revolt
Trevor was joined by Anthony from Disastrous History (@DisastrousHstry) to discuss the history of the Yaqui people of modern Sonora, their conflicts with Mexico, when those clashes crossed the border, and the story of a magical prophetess-healer-saint-revolutionary.
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Fort Huachuca Museum - Huachuca Illustrated The Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Huachuca Vol. 1
Fort Huachuca Museum - Huachuca Illustrated The Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Huachuca Vol. 2Garcia - Desert immigrants: the Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920
Hu-DeHart - Yaqui Resistance and Survival: The Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821–1910
Johnson - The Cyclopedic review of current history Vol. 6 1896
Miller - The Yaquis Become American Indians: The Process of Federal Tribal Recognition
Ruiz and Korrol - Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community
TTU - Early Research Into Yaquis Native Americans Had Support From West Texas Region
Valdez - Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture
Luis Alberto Urrea - https://luisurrea.com/
S1E15 - 1h 33m - Sep 28, 2024 - Bye Week 1: Libertalia
Alright. I'm moving house. Covid is ravaging my Secret Wars guest list. It's 104* F and I can't turn off my AC to record History of Persia. So we're trying a new thing tonight. Hope y'all like mythical pirate anarchism because that's what I have on hand.
8m - Aug 28, 2024 - 014: Shinmiyangyo the Extra-Forgotten Korean War, Part II
Trevor is joined by Cody Reynolds of the Accidentally on Purpose network (https://linktr.ee/aopnetwork), the Imperfect Men Podcast (@imperifectmenpod), and We Effed Up (@WeEffedUp) to discuss how Americans desperately tried to force the Korean Kingdom of Joseon to trade in the 1800s. Tomb raiding, stupid battles, and sword fights ensue.
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Duvernay - Sinmiyangyo: The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea
Long - Gold Braid and Foreign Relations: Diplomatic Activities of U.S. Naval Officers…
Chung - General’s Flag Returns Home From US
Eckert, et al. - Korea Old and New: A History
GlobalSecurity - SS General Sherman Incident
Howe - The Forgotten “Weekend War” A Comprehensive Account of the 1871 Korean Expedition
Hwang - American campaigns for flag’s return
Oppert - A Forbidden Land: Voyages to the Corea
Shields - US' 1871 invasion of Ganghwa Island
S1E14 - 57m - Aug 12, 2024 - 013: Shinmiyangyo the Extra-Forgotten Korean War
Trevor is joined by Cody Reynolds of the Accidentally on Purpose network (https://linktr.ee/aopnetwork), the Imperfect Men Podcast (@imperifectmenpod), and We Effed Up (@WeEffedUp) to discuss how Americans desperately tried to force the Korean Kingdom of Joseon to trade in the 1800s. Tomb raiding, stupid battles, and sword fights ensue.
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Duvernay - Sinmiyangyo: The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea
Long - Gold Braid and Foreign Relations: Diplomatic Activities of U.S. Naval Officers…
Chung - General’s Flag Returns Home From US
Eckert, et al. - Korea Old and New: A History
GlobalSecurity - SS General Sherman Incident
Howe - The Forgotten “Weekend War” A Comprehensive Account of the 1871 Korean Expedition
Hwang - American campaigns for flag’s return
Oppert - A Forbidden Land: Voyages to the Corea
Shields - US' 1871 invasion of Ganghwa Island
S1E13 - 57m - Aug 6, 2024 - 012: Americans in the Opium Wars – Part 2
Trevor is joined once again by Roberto Toro – host of many podcasts – to talk about the United States’ participation in The Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, and early-19th Century China. Roberto is the host of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and co-host of Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) and Quest for Power.
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Quest for Power https://quest-for-power.captivate.fm/
Long – Gold Braid and Foreign Relations: Diplomatic Activities of US Naval Officer 1798-1883
Hanes and Sanello – The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption…
Crean – The Fear of Chinese Power: An International History
Downs – American Merchants and the China Opium Trade, 1800-1840
Grant – Seventh Annual Message
Haythornthwaite – The Colonial Wars Source Book
Mao – The Qing Empire and the Opium War: Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty
Meyer – The Opium War’s Secret History
Nalty – The Barrier Forts: A Battle, A Monument, and a Mythical Marine
Rait – The Life and Campaigns of Hugh, first Viscount Gough, Field-Marshal
Tolley – Yangtze Patrol: The U.S. Navy in China
Wong – Deadly Dreams: Opium and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China
World Drug Report 2008 – A Century of International Drug Control
S1E12 - 1h 15m - Jul 21, 2024 - 011: Americans in the Opium Wars - Part 1
Trevor is joined once again by Roberto Toro - host of many podcasts - to talk about the United States' participation in The Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, and early-19th Century China. Roberto is the host of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and co-host of Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) and Quest for Power.
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Tsar Power https://tsarpowerpod.weebly.com/
Quest for Power https://quest-for-power.captivate.fm/
Long - Gold Braid and Foreign Relations: Diplomatic Activities of US Naval Officer 1798-1883
Hanes and Sanello - The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption…
Crean - The Fear of Chinese Power: An International History
Downs - American Merchants and the China Opium Trade, 1800-1840
Grant - Seventh Annual Message
Haythornthwaite - The Colonial Wars Source Book
Mao - The Qing Empire and the Opium War: Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty
Meyer - The Opium War’s Secret History
Nalty - The Barrier Forts: A Battle, A Monument, and a Mythical Marine
Rait - The Life and Campaigns of Hugh, first Viscount Gough, Field-Marshal
Tolley - Yangtze Patrol: The U.S. Navy in China
Wong - Deadly Dreams: Opium and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China
World Drug Report 2008 - A Century of International Drug Control
S1E11 - 1h 9m - Jul 13, 2024 - Must Listen Announcement!!!! (and the History of Gold minisode)
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30m - Jun 27, 2024 - 010: Invading Taiwan - The Formosa Expedition
Trevor sat down with Emma Lehman (https://www.emmalehman.com/) from Los Audio and the podcasts Gooned and Texas Twiggy to discuss the American Formosa Expedition of 1867. In a poorly thought out mission for revenge and imperialism, American sailors and marines got their first taste of East Asian jungle warfare.
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Los Audio - https://losaudio.substack.com/
Gooned - https://www.goonedpodcast.com/
Texas Twiggy - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/texas-twiggy/id1587025076
Gordon - Confrontation over Taiwan: Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers
Le Gendre - Formosa: Reports of Mr. C. W. Le Gendre
Davidson - The Island of Formosa: Historical View from 1430 to 1900
Haythornhwaite – The Colonial Wars Source Book
Long – Gold Braid and Foreign Relations: Diplomatic Activities of US Naval Officer 1798-1883
Meinheit - The Consul’s Maps: Diplomacy, Cartography and Japan’s 1874 Formosa Expedition
NHHC - H-063-4: The Formosa Expedition, 1867
NYT - European Intelligence...
NYT - The American Fleet in Chinese Waters -- Avenging National Insults
NYT - THE PIRATES OF FORMOSA.; Official Reports of the Engagement of the United States Naval Forces
NYT - American Officers in the Japanese Formosa Expedition
NYT - China and Japan; Active Preparations for War. The Formosa Expedition Successful...
Wong - Approaching Sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands: From the Perspectives of Ryukyu and Okinawa
S1E10 - 1h 21m - Jun 23, 2024 - 009: An Invasion of Japan During the Civil War? Part 2
Trevor’s brother, Evan, is usually with the US Navy in Japan. So we sat down to talk about the first time the United States fought the Empire of Japan in 1863.
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CIRA-Nippon – Bakunin’s Stop-over in Japan
Cullen – A History Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds
Department of the Navy – Brief Summary of the Perry Expedition to Japan, 1853
Griffis – Matthew Calbraith Perry: A Typical American Naval Officer
Haythornhwaite – The Colonial Wars Source Book
Herbert – Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion
Horii – The Perry Expedition (1853-1854) and the Japanese Encounter with “Religion”
Keith – Civilization, Race, and the Japan Expedition’s Cultural Diplomacy, 1853-1854
Long – Gold Braid and Foreign Relations: Diplomatic Activities of US Naval Officer 1798-1883
Perry – Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan…
Satow – A Diplomat in Japan: The Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan…
S1E9 - 43m - Jun 1, 2024 - 008: An Invasion of Japan During the Civil War? Part 1
Trevor's brother, Evan, is usually with the US Navy in Japan. So we sat down to talk about the first time the United States fought the Empire of Japan in 1863.
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CIRA-Nippon - Bakunin's Stop-over in Japan
Cullen - A History Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds
Department of the Navy - Brief Summary of the Perry Expedition to Japan, 1853
Griffis - Matthew Calbraith Perry: A Typical American Naval Officer
Haythornhwaite - The Colonial Wars Source Book
Herbert - Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion
Horii - The Perry Expedition (1853-1854) and the Japanese Encounter with "Religion"
Keith - Civilization, Race, and the Japan Expedition's Cultural Diplomacy, 1853-1854
Long - Gold Braid and Foreign Relations: Diplomatic Activities of US Naval Officer 1798-1883
Perry - Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan...
Satow - A Diplomat in Japan: The Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan...
S1E8 - 59m - May 25, 2024 - 007: The American Invasion of the Falkland Islands
Trevor and Ben Jacobs (@w2wpodcast) of the Wittenberg to Westphalia and Why Tho? podcasts talk about the United States’ weird military history in the Falkland Islands with guest appearances from Irish rebels, the War of 1812, and the Argentinian Revolution.
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Lorton – Falkland Wars – The History of the Falkland Islands
Barnard – A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Capt. Charles H. Barnard…
Cawkwell – The History of the Falkland Islands
Dickens – The Falkland Islands Dispute Between the United States and Argentina
Drexler – Monroe Doctrine: Primary Documents in American History
Falklands.info – A Brief History of the Falkland Islands Part 3
Fitzroy – Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
Holt – Memoirs of Joseph Holt: General of the Irish Rebels, in 1798
Maisch – The Falkland/Malvinas Islands Clash of 1831-32…
Silbey – The Incomplete World of American Politics, 1815-1829…
Tatham – The Dictionary of Falklands Biography
USS Duncan – Silas Duncan and the Falklands’ Island Incident
S1E7 - 1h 15m - May 12, 2024
