• E185 - The First Barbary War and America on the Global Stage

  • Nov 19 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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E185 - The First Barbary War and America on the Global Stage

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  • Abby Mullen, assistant professor at the US Naval Academy, joins the program to talk about her book To Fix a National Character: The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800–1805. The group explores the conflict, American geopolitics in its infancy, the Barbary States and piracy committed on their behalf at the time, how US naval expeditions in an era without a global network of bases functioned, the myth of the war in "The Marines' Hymn", and more.
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