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Podcast: History Unplugged Podcast
Episode: New Series Launches Tomorrow: Key Battles of the Barbary Wars (with James Early)
Description: James Early and Scott will be doing a nine-part series starting tomorrow called Key Battles of the Barbary Wars (1801-1815). We look at an infant United States try to assert itself in the Atlantic World, as North African pirates demand tribute, capture crews, and do everything it can to humiliate the nation as European powers looked on, wondering if the new nation would be project any sort of power beyond its shores. New episodes every Thursday.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.