Naked History

Welcome to Naked History, the podcast that peels back the polished layers of the past to reveal the weird, wild, and wonderful truths beneath. Hosted by historian Dyllan Gasaway, this show dives into the untold tales, strange coincidences, and overlooked events that shaped the world. From volcanic eruptions that sparked literary masterpieces to strange coincedences, absurd inventions, historical what-ifs, and the mystery of it all, you've found the right place.

Naked History is a history podcast hosted by Dyllan Gasaway, with 20 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Dyllan Gasaway hosts Naked History, a history show with 20 episodes published.

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  Episode #5

  America's 250th Special Debrief: The Founding Myths We Refuse To Let Die

  Jul 20, 202627 minS1

  The paintings are familiar: the Declaration signed on July 4, a united group of elderly Founders, Betsy Ross sewing the first flag, and the Liberty Bell ringing out the birth of a nation. The trouble is, much of that story never happened quite the way we remember it. In this Debrief to The American Experiment Is Haunted, Dyllan examines six of the most deeply embedded myths surrounding the American founding. We look at when the Declaration was really signed, how young and divided many of the Founders actually were, the uncertain origins of the first American flag, the later mythology surrounding the Liberty Bell, George Washington’s fictional cherry tree and very real dental nightmare, and the crucial foreign support that helped the United States win independence. These myths are not simply mistakes. They are part of the national story Americans have told for generations—stories that made the founding cleaner, more heroic, and much less complicated than it really was. The truth does not make the founding less meaningful. It makes it human. Music Credits: "Our Story Begins" Kevin MacLeod ( ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ incompetech.com ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http:// ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music track: lavender by massobeats Source: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://freetouse.com/music ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Royalty Free Music for Video (Safe)

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  America's 250th Special, Ep 3: The Basement and the Porch: Expansion, Memory, and the Next 250 Years

  Jul 13, 202626 min

  In the final episode of Naked History’s 250th special, we descend into the basement of the American Experiment — the place where the house keeps its machinery. After independence, the Revolution had to become a government. That meant debt, unpaid soldiers, postwar unrest, constitutional arguments, and the uneasy question of whether the new republic could survive itself. From there, we follow the long shadow of expansion, the hunger for land, the violence of removal, the polishing of national memory, and the Civil War as the terrible return of the founding contradiction. Then we step onto the porch and ask what comes next. What does patriotism look like when it tells the truth? What does commemoration owe to complexity? Can a country be loved without being lied to? This is not the end of the American Experiment. It is a look at the house we inherited, the ghosts still asking questions, and the unfinished work of the next 250 years. Music Credit: "In The West" Kevin MacLeod (⁠⁠⁠incompetech.com⁠⁠⁠)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License ⁠⁠⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/⁠⁠ Music track: lavender by massobeats Source: ⁠⁠⁠https://freetouse.com/music ⁠⁠⁠Royalty Free Music for Video (Safe)

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  Episode #2

  America's 250th Special, Ep 2: The Locked Rooms and Who Was Left Outside Liberty?

  Jul 6, 202628 minS1

  In Episode 2 of Naked History’s 250th special, we move deeper into the haunted house of the American Experiment and open the locked rooms of the Revolution. The Declaration promised liberty, but not everyone was invited into that promise. This episode looks at the people whose stories complicate the clean patriotic version of 1776: enslaved people who used revolutionary language to pursue freedom, Indigenous nations facing settler expansion, women whose labor helped sustain resistance while their authority remained limited, Loyalists whose choices were more human than cartoon history allows, and poor soldiers and veterans who fought for independence only to come home to debt, taxes, and hardship. This is the Revolution with the doors open: messier, sharper, more honest, and far more interesting than the birthday-card version. Music Credit: "In The West" Kevin MacLeod (⁠⁠⁠incompetech.com⁠⁠⁠)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License ⁠⁠⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/⁠⁠ Music track: lavender by massobeats Source: ⁠⁠⁠https://freetouse.com/music ⁠⁠⁠Royalty Free Music for Video (Safe) Sound effects courtesy of freesound__community, Trygve Larsen, Jurji, Gavin Mogensen, Darina Evstafeva, Moniker_Subriquet, Richard Multimedia, Soul Serenity Sounds, and Wulangjia from Pixabay,com

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  America's 250th Special, Ep 1: The Front Door: Revolution, Treason, and the Myth of the Beginning

  Jun 29, 202630 minS1

  America’s birthday starts at the front door. In the first episode of the Naked History 250th Special , we step inside the American Experiment and ask what was actually being born in 1776: a nation, a rebellion, a political argument, or a very expensive group project with muskets? This episode looks at the Revolution before it became marble statues and schoolhouse mythology. The colonies were not one big liberty-loving family reunion. They were divided, angry, indebted, suspicious, smuggling, printing, protesting, and slowly pressurizing into something dangerous. We’ll walk through the printing room, where the Declaration became more than a document. It became a political weapon. We’ll sit at the treason table, where founding a country also meant risking a noose. And then we’ll meet the first ghost in the house: the word “all.” Because “all men are created equal” was beautiful. It was also haunted from the beginning. Welcome to the American Experiment. Please wipe your feet. Music Credit: "In The West" Kevin MacLeod (⁠⁠⁠incompetech.com⁠⁠⁠)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License ⁠⁠⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/⁠⁠ Music track: lavender by massobeats Source: ⁠⁠⁠https://freetouse.com/music ⁠⁠⁠Royalty Free Music for Video (Safe) Sound effects courtesy of freesound__community, Trygve Larsen, Jurji, Gavin Mogensen, Darina Evstafeva, Moniker_Subriquet, Richard Multimedia, Soul Serenity Sounds, and Wulangjia from Pixabay,com

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  Ep26: The 250th Preamble: The Fourth Before It Was the Fourth

  Jun 23, 202620 min

  America’s birthday has a footnote. This week on Naked History , we’re warming up for the big July 4th special with a short episode about why the Fourth of July was not always destined to be the Fourth of July. The vote for independence happened on July 2nd, 1776. The Declaration was adopted on July 4th. And somehow, because history loves branding almost as much as it loves paperwork, the press release got the holiday. In this episode, we look at the Fourth before it was the Fourth: John Adams’s wrong-but-understandable prediction, the difference between declaring independence and explaining it, and how America’s birthday became a memory machine full of fireworks, contradictions, mythology, and potato salad. Because July 4th is not just a celebration. It is a story America tells about itself. And next week, we’re going much deeper. Music Credit: "In The West" Kevin MacLeod (⁠⁠⁠incompetech.com⁠⁠⁠)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License ⁠⁠⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/⁠⁠ Music track: lavender by massobeats Source: ⁠⁠⁠https://freetouse.com/music ⁠⁠⁠Royalty Free Music for Video (Safe)

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