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

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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

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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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

Civil.ge - Timeline-2005

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

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 - Inaugural Address

Polk - First Annual Message to Congress

Vancouver - A chart shewing part of the coast of N.W. America

Wilkes - Map of the Oregon Territory

Oregon Treaty, 1846

Treaty of Washington, 1871

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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Douglass - The Heroic Slave

Home - Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation

Jervey and Huber - The Creole Affair

Jones - The Influence of SLavery on the Webster-Ashburton Negotiations

Momodu - The Creole Case

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

US DOS - The Amistad Case, 1839

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

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

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty

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

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

Carroll - The Passionate Canadians: The Historical Debate about the Eastern Canadian-American Boundary

Maine Council - Aroostook War: HIstorical Sketch and Roster of Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Men

Meander Maine - The Pork and Beans War

Paradis - John Baker and the Republic of Madawaska

Perry - “Maine and Her Soil or Blood!” Political Rhetoric and Spatial Identity During the Aroostook War in Maine

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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

Keedy - The Constitutions of The State of Franklin, The Indian Stream Republic and The State of Deseret

Showerman - The Indian Stream Republic and Luther Parker

Tsai - America’s Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community