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Welcome to The History of the Americans Podcast. My name is Jack Henneman, and I am telling a history of the people who inhabited and inhabit the lands now constituting the United States from the beginning to the present, with as little presentism as possible and no partisan politics.
Welcome to The History of the Americans Podcast. My name is Jack Henneman, and I am your host. This podcast is telling a history of the people who inhabited and inhabit the lands now constituting the United States from the beginning to the present.
It should be said up front that I am a retired corporate lawyer and executive, not a professional historian. I am, however, the son of a professor of history, grew up in a house lined with history books, and have done my share of reading over the years. Unlike at least some academic historians, my father was a big supporter of popular history. He believed that history should be fun and encouraged as widely as possible, even at the risk of errors that might irritate professionals. So let’s do this in that spirit, come what may. No doubt I will make mistakes or come to conclusions with which the experts take issue. All feedback is, of course, welcome, and I’ll do my best as we go along to acknowledge meaningful errors.
What else about me? I grew up in Iowa City in a family of New Yorkers, and lived and worked in Chicago and Princeton, New Jersey before moving to Austin, Texas on account of true love. My wife is a psychotherapist, which my friends widely regard as useful to me, and we and our dog Hubbell can often be found in New Orleans when we are not in Austin. I’ve been to 49 states in my 62 years – sorry, North Dakota, I’ll get to you eventually – and seen enough of the world that I know what a good thing we have here.
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It should be said up front that I am a retired corporate tool, not a professional historian. I am, however, the son of a professor of history, grew up in a house lined with history books, and have done my share of reading over the years. Unlike many academics, my father was a big supporter of popular history. He believed that history should be fun and encouraged as widely as possible, even at the risk of errors that pain the professionals in the field. So let’s do this in that spirit, come what may. No doubt I will make mistakes or come to conclusions with which “the experts” take issue. All feedback is, of course, welcome, and I’ll do my best as we go along to acknowledge meaningful errors.
What else about me? I grew up in Iowa City in a family of New Yorkers, and lived and worked in Chicago and Princeton, New Jersey before moving to Austin, Texas on account of true love. My wife is a psychotherapist, which my friends widely regard as useful to me, and we and our dogs can often be found in New Orleans when we are not in Austin. I’ve been to 49 states in my 59 years – sorry, North Dakota, I’ll get to you eventually – and seen enough of the world that I know what a good thing we have here.