{"podcast":{"title":"Skipped History","slug":"skipped-history-6825732","podcast_index_feed_id":6825732,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/53190.rss","website_url":"https://skippedhistory.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/53190/afae8c8674381af1be071d765cbfbc00.jpg","author":"Ben Tumin","episode_count":125,"summary":"A comedic podcast exploring overlooked ideas, people, and events that still shape the US today. Presented by historical satirist Ben Tumin.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T02:17:10.638390+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/skipped-history-6825732"},"episode":{"title":"The Longest American War You've Never Heard Of — and Why It Sounds Familiar","slug":"the-longest-american-war-you-ve-never-heard-of-and-why-it-sounds-familiar","published_at":"2026-03-27T13:23:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/skipped-history-6825732/the-longest-american-war-you-ve-never-heard-of-and-why-it-sounds-familiar","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/skipped-history-6825732","url":"https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-longest-american-war-youve-never","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/192306030/6ae67d1e750490f0b64a4f6e3095a7b5.mp3","summary":"Today, Jamie Holmes explains how Andrew Jackson launched America’s longest war before Vietnam—with almost no understanding of what he was getting into. In The Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the Indigenous Rebel, and America’s Forgotten War , Holmes traces the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). Jackson invaded Florida knowing Black Seminoles were free and armed. When war broke out, he kept saying: why isn’t it over? What’s the problem? The war ended up costing up to $40 million (over $1 billion today), killing more soldiers from disease than combat, and could have been avoided entirely. Holmes sees a pattern echoing today: leaders imposing their will by force alone, denying realities they can’t defend on paper, while the media shapes our understanding of wars in real time. Jamie Holmes is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times , The New Yorker , The Atlantic , and elsewhere. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skippedhistory.substack.com/subscribe","meta_description":"Today, Jamie Holmes explains how Andrew Jackson launched America’s longest war before Vietnam—with almost no understanding of what he was getting into. In…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2181,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/skipped-history-6825732/episodes/the-longest-american-war-you-ve-never-heard-of-and-why-it-sounds-familiar/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/skipped-history-6825732/the-longest-american-war-you-ve-never-heard-of-and-why-it-sounds-familiar.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}