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A daily history podcast from Patriot Compass. Each episode explores the events that shaped America on this day in history, told through expert narration and grounded in primary sources.

Episodes

  1. 1d ago

    July 5: The Battle of Chippawa

    On a smoke-filled field near the Niagara River, a supply mix-up in gray cloth tricks a British general — and an American army built from scratch proves it can stand and fight.

    6 min

  2. 2d ago

    July 4: Congress Adopts the Declaration of Independence

    On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress stopped petitioning the Crown and voted to become a nation. The story of the vote, the printing press that ran all night, and the war it guaranteed.

    5 min

  3. 3d ago

    July 3: Washington Takes Command of the Continental Army

    On the day before he'd take formal command, George Washington rides toward Cambridge to face an army that barely deserves the name — and a political gamble Congress needed to work.

    6 min

  4. 4d ago

    July 2: Continental Congress Votes for Independence

    On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted to sever ties with Britain — the legal act of independence that John Adams believed Americans would celebrate forever. He was off by two days.

    7 min

  5. 5d ago

    July 1: The Battle of Gettysburg Begins

    On July 1, 1863, two armies collided by accident in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania — launching three days that broke Lee's invasion and left over 50,000 casualties in a small farming town.

    6 min

  6. 6d ago

    June 30: Lincoln Signs the Yosemite Valley Grant Act

    On June 30, 1864, Abraham Lincoln signed a bill protecting Yosemite Valley — establishing the unprecedented idea that a government could hold land for the people's permanent enjoyment.

    6 min

  7. Jun 29

    June 29: First iPhone Launched

    On June 29, 2007, thousands camped outside Apple stores as the first iPhone went on sale — a device Steve Jobs had promised would "reinvent the phone."

    6 min

  8. Jun 28

    June 28: The Battle of Fort Sullivan Repels the British Fleet

    Six days before independence was declared, a half-finished fort made of spongy palmetto logs stopped a British fleet cold — and bought the South four years of breathing room.

    5 min

  9. Jun 27

    June 27: Truman Orders U.S. Forces into Korea

    Two days after North Korea invaded the South, President Harry Truman made the call that would define American military intervention for generations: he ordered U.S. forces into combat without a declaration of war.

    6 min

  10. Jun 26

    June 26: 50 Nations Sign the United Nations Charter in San Francisco

    June 26, 1945: Two months after Roosevelt's death, fifty nations signed the UN Charter in San Francisco — the architecture of postwar order that he had envisioned but never lived to see.

    6 min
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A daily history podcast from Patriot Compass. Each episode explores the events that shaped America on this day in history, told through expert narration and grounded in primary sources.

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  • Episodes
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    The American Record