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George Washington once spoke to a congregation of Jews in America to assert that they had a place in the new Republic, as surely as anyone else. While a majority of Presidents have been one particular flavor of Christian, we've had the odd exception along the way, largely as a matter of culture and tradition. As of 2021 we even have as many as *two* Catholics in the mix. Will this always be the case? Here are my short thoughts on the matter. Let me know what you think! Get your copy of WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL: https://www.amazon.com/What-So-Proudly-We-Hail/dp/1610170806 Support a small business! My brother sells vinyl signs of all kinds (www.wallquotes.com) and my mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. Check out my alternate history series ENGINES OF LIBERTY: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074CFVWKH?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb&binding=kindle_edition Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

Drafted and signed in 1620, the Mayflower Compact is one of the oldest formal documents created by European settlers in North America. What is it, why did they write it, and why is it relevant today? Here are my short thoughts on the matter. Let me know what you think! Get your copy of WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL: https://www.amazon.com/What-So-Proudly-We-Hail/dp/1610170806 Support a small business! My brother sells vinyl signs of all kinds (www.wallquotes.com) and my mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. Check out my alternate history series ENGINES OF LIBERTY: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074CFVWKH?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb&binding=kindle_edition Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

These two important documents are back-to-back in WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL, prompting me to consider their relation to each other. In this video I explore some names, dates, and reasoning behind both the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Gettysburg Address (1863). Let me know what you think! Get your copy of WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL: https://www.amazon.com/What-So-Proudly-We-Hail/dp/1610170806 Support a small business! My brother sells vinyl signs of all kinds (www.wallquotes.com) and my mother makes high-quality quilts (www.enchanteddesertquilter.com) Thank you guys. Check out my alternate history series ENGINES OF LIBERTY: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074CFVWKH?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb&binding=kindle_edition Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

In addition to being a huge reader and a lifelong writer, I'm also an artist. Here's some of the stuff that's made it from my head to the sketchbook, and onto the wall. Thanks for watching!

Ralph Ellison was a sailor in the 1940s. His short story IN A STRANGE COUNTRY is about a black sailor who makes port in Wales, only to get beat up by a group of white American sailors. When he's taken in by some benevolent Welshmen, he learns a thing or two about loving his own country, and celebrating others. Get your copy of WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL: https://www.amazon.com/What-So-Proudly-We-Hail/dp/1610170806 OH, BROTHER by Johnniece M. Wilson: https://www.amazon.com/Brother-Paperbacks-Johnniece-Marshall-Wilson/dp/0590410016 Check out my alternate history series ENGINES OF LIBERTY: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074CFVWKH?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb&binding=kindle_edition Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

Mary Antin left Russia as a young girl and was inspired by American figures like George Washington. Soon she adopted him as her own hero and happily assimilated herself into the American experiment, despite not being connected to it by birth. This is a powerful idea that we often set by the wayside in the modern age. In this video, let's talk about American heroes, and how they can help us overcome the divisions we all-too-readily embrace in the 21st Century. Get your copy of WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL: https://www.amazon.com/What-So-Proudly-We-Hail/dp/1610170806 Check out my alternate history series ENGINES OF LIBERTY: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074CFVWKH?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb&binding=kindle_edition Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

I hope you have a productive Independence Day this year, and that you can reflect on why we celebrate this. The whole text of the Declaration: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript Buy the ENGINES OF LIBERTY trilogy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074CFVWKH?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb&binding=kindle_edition Get your copy of WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL: https://www.amazon.com/What-So-Proudly-We-Hail/dp/1610170806 Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was an American writer who penned this beautiful story and published it in 1863--right in the midst of the Civil War. It focuses on the fictional Philip Nolan, a man banished from the United States after he followed Aaron Burr in the early 19th century. While he initially got what he wanted with the banishment, he eventually came to regret his decision...although his judgment was permanent. What he learned during his exile is powerful, beautiful, and instructive about the value of a home nation. Read "The Man Without A Country" for free: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16493 Get your copy of WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL: https://www.amazon.com/What-So-Proudly-We-Hail/dp/1610170806 Find great fiction recommendations: www.upstreamreviews.com Check out my website: www.dreadpennies.com

In 2005, two hikers in the Sierra Nevada mountains found the frozen body of an American airman from World War Two. Identifying his remains would bring closure to a mystery that had lasted sixty years, and left four Gold Star families wondering what had happened to their sons. The book FINAL FLIGHT by Peter Stekel is an exhaustive investigation into who this airman was, how he got there, and who was with him when his plane crashed. Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Final-Flight-Mystery-Frozen-Airmen/dp/0899974759/ And let Peter Stekel know what you think of his work here: http://peterstekel.com/ Wikipedia entry for Leo Mustonen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Mustonen Wikipedia entry for Glenn Munn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Glenn_Munn Find great fiction recommendations by me and other writers at www.UpstreamReviews.com

In 2020, Eric Weathers launched a crowdfunding campaign for BATTLE BRICK ROAD--a graphic novel based on THE WIZARD OF OZ. I just got my copy this week, check out how cool this thing looks! ------------------- Find more books to read at www.upstreamreviews.com ------------------ Buy stickers, signs, wood decorations, and more at www.wallquotes.com (not sponsored)

In the spirit of my Mayflower Passengers video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA1rY4gdQgs&t=66s) , I decided to do a little breakdown of the signers of the Declaration of Independence! The 250th anniversary of this historic American moment is just a few short years away. Take some time to read up on these folks and learn more about the age in which they lived, as well as what inspired them to make this life-altering decision. Amazon (Links to a different edition than the one I own): https://www.amazon.com/Signers-Declaration-Independence-Augustus-Goodrich-ebook/dp/B07DND9QKG/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=lives+signers+declaration+independence&qid=1654558727&sr=8-5 ---------------------- Follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dreadpennies My friends and I make book recommendations at upstreamreviews.substack.com My brother runs an excellent signmaking website at www.wallquotes.com. He also does wood and metal pieces that are really cool.

Did you know that the fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie was based on a book? I didn't, until 2010. ON STRANGER TIDES was released in 1988, and I don't know how it flew under the radar. It's a great piece of historical fantasy. ----------------- Be sure to check out www.upstreamreviews.substack.com for more great fiction recommendations!

After I bagged on Shusterman's bad ending to SCYTHE, I thought I should further explain my disappointment by contrasting it with his greatest work--the UNWIND series. Come check it out.

In a follow-up to my video on ELANTRIS and WARBREAKER, I'll introduce you to Sanderson's longest-running series, called "Mistborn." It's a ton of fun. Find the whole Mistborn series on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F8DKXXF?searchxofy=true&binding=kindle_edition&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tkin&qid=1652303818&sr=8-1 Reserve "The Lost Metal" at Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-lost-metal-brandon-sanderson/1140665519 See Brandon's other work at www.brandonsanderson.com OTHER CONTENT: ----------------------------- Find my audiobooks for free on the DreadPennies Adventure Hour Podcast ----------------------------- Find more regular content on the Radcracker Podcast, including brief reviews of what I read in a given week. ----------------------------- Buy my books on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/Graham-Bradley/e/B00M5HM3FG?ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_byln

This popular urban fantasy/sci-fi series is about a group of gunslingers who hunt monsters for bounty money. Each book has an individual plot, while the whole series moves towards and apocalyptic conflict. Highly entertaining and humorous! Check out Declan Finn's reviews of each volume on www.UpstreamReviews.com Book one: https://upstreamreviews.com/?p=3694 Book two: https://upstreamreviews.com/?p=3699 Free eBook for MONSTER HUNTER INTERNATIONAL: https://www.baen.com/monster-hunter-international.html Larry Correia's Web Page: www.monsterhunternation.com OTHER CONTENT: ----------------------------- Buy my books on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/Graham-Bradley/e/B00M5HM3FG?ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_byln ----------------------------- Find my audiobooks for free on the DreadPennies Adventure Hour Podcast ----------------------------- Find more regular content on the Radcracker Podcast, including brief reviews of what I read in a given week.

The biggest name in epic fantasy right now is @Brandon Sanderson . He had half a dozen books out from his own universe before he released the THE GATHERING STORM with Tor Books, which began the end of the late Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series. In this video I'll run through two of his standalone fantasies, ELANTRIS and WARBREAKER, which are two different takes on the same idea. Buy a copy of Elantris: https://www.amazon.com/Elantris-Brandon-Sanderson-2006-05-30/dp/B01FEK9RIQ/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=elantris&qid=1651014075&sr=8-4 Buy a copy of Warbreaker: https://www.amazon.com/Warbreaker-WARBREAKER-Mass-Market-Paperback/dp/B00QOTU0C4/ref=sr_1_2?crid=29VF6OU9J70BN&keywords=warbreaker&qid=1651014106&sprefix=warbreake%2Caps%2C161&sr=8-2 OTHER CONTENT: ----------------------------- Find my audiobooks for free on the DreadPennies Adventure Hour Podcast ----------------------------- Find more regular content on the Radcracker Podcast, including brief reviews of what I read in a given week. ----------------------------- Buy my books on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/Graham-Bradley/e/B00M5HM3FG?ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_byln ----------------------------- Check out my brother's podcast, "Italian Histories with Jordan Bradley." He's one of the most intelligent and studious people I know, and his love for Italy is rivaled only by my love for Spain. www.italianhistories.com

Today my much-loved Australian shepherd Bo had to be put down at ten years of age. This is the fourth time in my life that one of my dogs has died. It never gets easier, but you find different ways to cope with it. One way, for me anyhow, is to go to the familiar and comforting stories of Gary Paulsen, and the many dogs he had over the years. THIS SIDE OF WILD, by Gary Paulsen. Available here: https://www.amazon.com/This-Side-Wild-Laughing-Dinosaurs/dp/1481451510/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1649460830&sr=8-1 OTHER CONTENT: ----------------------------- Find my audiobooks for free on the DreadPennies Adventure Hour Podcast ----------------------------- Find more regular content on the Radcracker Podcast, including brief reviews of what I read in a given week. ----------------------------- Buy my books on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/Graham-Bradley/e/B00M5HM3FG/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1 ----------------------------- Check out my brother's podcast, "Italian Histories with Jordan Bradley." He's one of the most intelligent and studious people I know, and his love for Italy is rivaled only by my love for Spain. www.italianhistories.com