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The History Things Podcast A conversational approach to interpreting history.

Hosts Patrick McGuire and Matt Borders aim to connect you to some of your favorite stories from the past as well as ones you might not have ever heard before!

This was a BIG year for the podcast! We continued to grow and reach new listeners at an incredibly surreal pace! We embr...
28/12/2024

This was a BIG year for the podcast! We continued to grow and reach new listeners at an incredibly surreal pace! We embraced awesome new experiences such as live podcast recordings and significant studio upgrades as well as plotted the course for the future of the show! We got to catch up with many of our listeners out in the world this year and that has always been the most humbling and special of experiences!
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As we close our 2024, there are a couple accomplishments that we are immensely proud of here at and we wanted to share our appreciation of them with you!
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Firstly, the show has now been played on 6 continents! Being a global show is truly a wild thing when you say it out loud and we just wanted to make sure everyone tuning in from around the world knew that we see you and we LOVE you! Thank you so much for spreading the signal! Moving forward we will start a campaign in earnest to tap into the Antarctican market!
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We also made it into the top 25% of all history podcasts globally! There are a lot of people in the podcast world doing great works focusing on the topics of the past, and it is an honor to be included alongside some of the people we look to as leaders and inspirations in the world of public interpretation!
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As we have discussed in recent weeks, big changes have come to the podcast, but as 2025 and Season 6 rolls out in just a few short weeks, we are confident that all the familiar energy of the show will continue to carry us through rabbit hole after rabbit hole of great historical conversations!
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Thank you to everyone who has been a part of the show this year, Whether you’re staff, or were a guest, or are the most critical part of the show, a listener, we are so lucky to do what we love to do and continue to have the opportunity to do it into the future!
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With all of our love, gratitude, and respect, this has been , Season 5, for all of us here, we thank you for listening, and we will catch you all LATER!!!!!!!!!! Happy New Year!!!!!!
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🚨‼️🔔ANNOUNCEMENT🔔‼️🚨:It’s the end of the year again, which means it’s the end of the season… our 5th season! And while i...
20/12/2024

🚨‼️🔔ANNOUNCEMENT🔔‼️🚨
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It’s the end of the year again, which means it’s the end of the season… our 5th season! And while it is customary for us to take a look back at the years work we have put out, this year we will also be looking back at 5 years of doing the podcast, because this years edition of our Year In Review, will also be the last time Co-Host Matt Borders joins us.
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After 5 years behind the microphone, Matt will be stepping away from the show, and instead of mourning the departure of such an immense talent and historian, we will celebrate his time and contributions with us, and send him off as friends!
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It’s been a wild and unexpectedly wonderful ride and we look forward to continuing that adventure into next season, but for now let’s get nostalgic and have some fun with Matty B one last time and wish him luck in his future endeavors!
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Last night was so much fun! Thank you to the Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center for having us out to do our firs...
02/11/2024

Last night was so much fun! Thank you to the Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center for having us out to do our first ever live show! It was an incredible chat INSIDE the famed seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania about the town in the year 1869 with our good friend Codie Eash - Writer and Historian! We discussed a visit from Frederick Douglass, and what the town was like 6 years after the battle was fought there!
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Recording in front of a live audience was an amazing experience, certainly one we will not forget! Thank you to everyone who came out to see the show! It was great to see so many of our friends, both old and new!
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For those of you who couldn’t make it out for this one, don’t worry yourself a bit! You will be able to hear this conversation later in the month for Season 5’s “Black Friday Special!”
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The fourth annual “24 Hours on the Ridge” is this Friday and Saturday, November 1 and 2 at the Seminary Ridge Museum and...
28/10/2024

The fourth annual “24 Hours on the Ridge” is this Friday and Saturday, November 1 and 2 at the Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center in Gettysburg, PA! During this ambitious event, Museum Admission will be FREE, with donations toward the Adams County Community Foundation Giving Spree encouraged and very appreciated, and some events having a minimum donation requested.
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On Friday at 6:30pm on the Museum’s second floor, we are going to be recording an episode in front of a live audience, to discuss “Gettysburg 1869” with Codie Eash, SRMEC Director of Education and Interpretation.
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You might remember Codie Eash from his previous visit to the podcast where he took us through the dramatic story of the ride of Alexander Hays on July 3, 1863!
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This is our first live recording endeavor and we are incredibly excited for the opportunity and to see all of you in person this Friday!
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24/10/2024

🔮🧙‍♂️🧙‍♀️🎃👻 It is spooky season!!! 👻 🎃 🧙‍♀️ 🧙‍♂️ 🔮
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One of our favorite seasons is upon us! The time of year when things get weird(er) on ! Coming up on Monday 10/28, we have special guest .j.broomall in the to discuss some of the more macabre souvenirs that soldiers of the American Civil War found themselves collecting!
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Join us for “A Quest For Bones,” for on your favorite podcast app!
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15/10/2024

🔮🧙‍♂️🧙‍♀️🎃👻 It is spooky season!!! 👻 🎃 🧙‍♀️ 🧙‍♂️ 🔮 :One of our favorite seasons is upon us! The time of year when things get weird(er) on ! Coming up on 10/28, we have special guest .j.broomall in the to discuss some of the more macabre souvenirs that soldiers of the American Civil War found themselves collecting! :Join us for “A Quest For Bones,” for on your favorite podcast app! :

We did something new! All this talk on the show this month about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, got a couple of old...
30/09/2024

We did something new!

All this talk on the show this month about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, got a couple of old musicians going, and we took a crack at covering one of our favorite songs!

Check out the episode we dropped today about the history and impact of the song and also head over to YouTube to watch our performance of the Gordon Lightfoot classic!

Special thanks to Jonathan Filson, Pat’s band mate in Auld Mally, for participating in this project and laying down the drums!

27/08/2024

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 MONDAY - MONDAY - MONDAY
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This Monday we explore a new shipwreck on ! And this time we have some help from our fellow podcast host, Rich Napolitano of the !
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In this installment, we explore the tragedy of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, who was lost in a severe storm on Lake Superior in 1975 after an illustrious 17-year career!
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Rich takes us through a history of the ship and the events of that fateful voyage!
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Download this episode and all episodes of the podcast for on your favorite podcast app!
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Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy the show!
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Happy Birthday ! We know our man likes to keep a low profile when he’s off the microphones, but we couldn’t let our favo...
09/08/2024

Happy Birthday ! We know our man likes to keep a low profile when he’s off the microphones, but we couldn’t let our favorite information wizard pass another revolution around the sun without acknowledging how grateful we are for him keeping the laces straight here on the podcast! Plus he looks fantastic for being a nearly 10,000 year old history mage!
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We love you Matty-B, Happy Happy Happy Birthday!
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06/08/2024

A corrupt local government? U.S. veterans recently home from WWII? Voting violations? People who have had enough? - - It sounds like story of the 1946 Battle of Athens, Tennessee!
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Join us as we chat with our friends from Ill-Equipped History to discuss this incredible story of more than a decade of corruption and abuse of authority that eventually boiled over into an actual gunfight between armed veterans of the Second World War and local politicians and the Sherriff’s Department of Athens, Tennessee! The results might surprise you!
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Download this episode and all episodes of for on all major podcast apps!
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Thanks for listening! We hope you enjoy the show!
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This Paranormal Life

24/07/2024

A update!
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We have had a BUSY BUSY July in which we released 3 podcast episodes and a 21-part video series for this season’s “From The Field!”
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gives a quick rundown on all the action of the July Blitz as we kick off the second half of Season 5!
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Download all episodes of for on your favorite podcast app and tune in to all our video programming on , , & !
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Thanks for listening! We hope you enjoy the show!
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Like so many of you we were devastated to learn of the news of Pete’s passing. Our hearts go out to this wife and childr...
21/07/2024

Like so many of you we were devastated to learn of the news of Pete’s passing. Our hearts go out to this wife and children as well as to his colleagues, friends, students, and anyone else who shared his wisdom and his laughter. We were honored to have known him and worked with him on several occasions, however no honor was greater than being able to call him a friend, and for that honor, we are indescribably grateful.
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Whether you have read his work, listened to his lectures, listened to him on our friends Addressing Gettysburg - Podcast, or caught up with him casually, you were likely better for it…
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Tonight we toast another great mind and better person that left us way too soon… with all of our love, respect, and admiration, thank you Pete, we will miss you terribly forever!
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- Pat & Matt

27/06/2024

We’re back for this years installment of “From The Field!”

This season we are going through the 1864 Valley Campaign of Jubal Early, with a focus on the fighting on July 9, 1864 at Monocacy Junction!

Mid year is out now! - Catch up on where we have been and where we are going this season, as well as hear about some of ...
22/06/2024

Mid year is out now! - Catch up on where we have been and where we are going this season, as well as hear about some of our off-mic lives and updates!
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