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The American Record episodes
- September 19: Washington's Farewell Address to the Nation
On this day in 1796, George Washington's Farewell Address hit the Philadelphia press — a private letter of warning that became the country's first unwritten rule.
6 min - September 18: National Security Act Takes Effect, Creating the CIA and Defense Department
On September 18, 1947, a wartime turf war over the military finally settled — and quietly, without ceremony, America got a secretary of defense, a National Security Council, and a brand-new agency called the CIA.
7 min - September 17: Twenty-Three Thousand Fall in a Single Day at Antietam
On the bloodiest single day in American military history, Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North collapses along a Maryland creek, and the outcome reshapes the purpose of the Civil War itself.
6 min - September 16: Washington's Army Routs British Light Infantry at Harlem Heights
Two days after his army broke and ran on Manhattan, George Washington needed his men to prove they could stand. In a buckwheat field above the Hudson, they finally did.
6 min - September 15: X Corps Storms the Beaches at Inchon
Before dawn on September 15, 1950, Marines scaled a seawall at Inchon in a landing the Navy itself called reckless — and turned the Korean War inside out within two weeks.
5 min - September 14: Theodore Roosevelt Sworn In as President in a Buffalo Library
On September 14, 1901, a wagon-and-train dash through the night ends in a private library in Buffalo, where a judge and a borrowed room turn a vice president into the youngest president in American history.
6 min - September 13: British Warships Bombard Fort McHenry for Twenty-Five Hours
Twenty-five hours of British bombs over Fort McHenry, a chain of sunken ships, and the dawn that gave Francis Scott Key his poem.
7 min - September 12: American Guns Open on Chapultepec Castle
On a hilltop outside Mexico City, American guns pound a castle full of cadets and soldiers with nowhere to hide, setting up the assault that would decide a war.
6 min - September 11: Hijackers Attack the World Trade Center and Pentagon
A clear Tuesday morning, four hijacked planes, and the day that redrew American history. This is the story of September 11, 2001.
6 min - September 10: Nathan Hale Volunteers as Washington's Spy Behind British Lines
A 21-year-old schoolteacher-turned-officer volunteers for a mission with no precedent and no protection — the story behind America's first intelligence martyr.
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About The American Record
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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.