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This series will provide useful, pragmatic history from America’s greatest trauma that people from all walks of life, backgrounds, and professions might find helpful. You may be surprised just how much we can learn from the Civil War that can assist us in making sense of our lives today! As I tell my students, get ready for a wild and thought-provoking ride that will inform, challenge preconceived notions, and offer insights into understanding all sorts of issues and realities that affect us ...
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The Savvy Citizen podcast equips ordinary American citizens with the civic knowledge, legal understanding, and historical context needed to formulate, articulate, and defend one’s perspectives and viewpoints.
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Welcome to I Am Roe, Hear Me Roar! I'm your host, Kelley Keller. This podcast recounts the journey of Jane Roe, Henry Wade, their cataclysmic meeting in the United States Supreme Court, and the ensuing aftermath. The show will focus on asking and answering the following questions: What exactly does Roe say? What exactly does Roe NOT say? What is the state of the law now? Where do we go from here? What actually happened to Roe and Wade? So, please join me on this fascinating journey as we unp ...
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6: The United States Constitution: Amendments 11 through 27
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This is Episode 6 of The Savvy Citizen podcast. I’m your host Kelley Keller and it is my privilege to present the 11th through 27th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America. In the last episode, we read through the Bill of Rights, or the first 10 Amendments. Now, we turn to the 17 amendments that come after, ratified between 1…
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5: The Bill of Rights, Effective December 15, 1791
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This is Episode 5 of The Savvy Citizen podcast. I’m your host Kelley Keller and it is my privilege to present the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution, which are well known as the Bill of Rights. In the previous episode, we read through the preamble and all 7 articles of the U.S. Constitution, which created our current structure of…
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7: Chancellorsville: A Campaign of Strategic Contingency
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In this second installment of our series on the campaigns of the Eastern Theater with significant strategic impact, we'll take a close look at Robert E. Lee's surprising victory at Chancellorsville. How did an operation with great potential for the Union morph into one of the Confederacy's greatest triumphs? What, exactly, did the loss of Stonewall…
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4: The Constitution of the United States of America, Effective March 4, 1789
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I’m your host Kelley Keller and it is my privilege to present America’s third founding document: The Constitution of the United States of America. In the previous episode, we took a high level look at the Articles of Confederation which functioned as America’s first Constitution. But the Articles simply didn’t work and we needed an upgrade. While t…
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3. The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, March 1, 1781
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This is Episode 3 of The Savvy Citizen podcast. I’m your host Kelley Keller and it is my privilege to present America’s second founding document: The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union adopted on November 15, 1777, ratified on March 1, 1781. The Articles of Confederation served as the United States’ first constitution. It was in force fr…
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2. The Declaration of Independence of the United States, July 4, 1776
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It is my privilege to present America’s first founding document, The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America from King George III of Great Britain and his parliament, dated July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence has five sections. It begins with a Preamble. The preamble identifies the purpose of the document. The preamble…
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The story of the United States of America begins on July 4, 1776. One year after the Battle of Lexington launched the American Revolution, the American colonists had exhausted their efforts to negotiate a more workable arrangement with the English crown, specifically King George III. With all efforts - shy of separation - having failed, the colonis…
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6: The Theater Strategy and Execution of the Pennsylvania Campaign
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This is the first in a series of episodes concentrating on the most strategically significant campaigns of the Eastern Theater of the war. In this podcast, we take a close look at the Union and Confederate ends, ways, and means in the climactic campaign of summer 1863 that culminated at Gettysburg. We will learn that sometimes strong strategies are…
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5: The Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi Theater - Strategic Highlights
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This is the third in a series of three episodes concentrating on the strategic-level characteristics, geography, and personalities of the three major theaters of war. In this podcast, we examine the Trans-Mississippi Theater in light of these considerations and briefly discuss its most important campaigns, with a focus on Missouri, Arkansas, and th…
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4: The Civil War in the Western Theater - Strategic Highlights
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This is the second in a series of three episodes concentrating on the strategic-level characteristics, geography, and personalities of the three major theaters of war. In this podcast, we examine the Western Theater in light of these considerations and briefly discuss its most important campaigns, with a focus on Tennessee, Georgia, and Vicksburg, …
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3: The Civil War in the Eastern Theater - Strategic Highlights
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This is the first in a series of three episodes concentrating on the strategic-level characteristics, geography, and personalities of the three major theaters of war. In this podcast, we examine the Eastern Theater in light of these considerations and briefly discuss its most important campaigns, with a focus on Virginia--termed "the cockpit of the…
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Have you ever had a gut feeling about something, but lacked confidence that you actually “knew enough” to have a meaningful conversation about it, so you just kept your mouth shut? Have you ever been confronted about the validity of your point-of-view or belief system and struggled to find just the right words to silence your critics? Have you ever…
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2: The Strategic Background - Why the Civil War Occurred
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Why the American Civil War occurred has been the subject of much debate and thousands of books since the guns fell silent in 1865. In this episode, we will decomplicate the complex political, social, and economic background behind the coming of the war, discuss these factors in common-sense terms, and offer a few thoughts about the phenomenon of wa…
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In this episode, we set the theoretical foundations for understanding what strategy and operations are and how to think about them in the context of the American Civil War. We cover the ends-ways-means-risk paradigm, the DIME construct, and the levels of war and strategy and their corresponding leadership responsibilities. We also discuss the initi…
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5: Abortion Law and the Rise of Regulation
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In this episode, we begin by acknowledging that abortion was returned to the states on June 24, 2022, with the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson. This meant that state laws banning abortion could no longer be overturned on the grounds they violate a woman’s Constitutional right of privacy. Whether laws that restrict abortion are acceptable…
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Welcome to the Civil War Strategy podcast! In this inaugural episode, I'll introduce myself, what this series is about, and why you should care. I look forward to your company as we travel this journey through America's bloodiest conflict together. Connect with Christian Keller https://www.linkedin.com/in/drchriskeller/ http://christianbkeller.com/…
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This episode addresses the June 24, 2022 bombshell decision from the U.S. Supreme Court - Dobbs v. Jackson - which overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. We begin the show by exploring the core issue in Dobbs, which is the “fundamental right” to choose to have an abortion created by Roe. First up, we identify what fundamental right…
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3: The Case That Changed Roe: Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) - Part 1
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This episode lays the groundwork for understanding the second most important abortion case in American law, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, decided in 1992. The episode begins with an acknowledgment that Roe did not settle the abortion debate, but rather created a fractious debate that didn’t really exist before it was passed. We then shift to discuss…
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This episode lays the groundwork for understanding Roe v. Wade, the famous 1973 Supreme Court decision that effectively legalized abortion nationwide for the first time. First, we set the stage - the legal stage that is. We begin with an explanation of Jane Roe’s initial lawsuit filed in the federal district court in Dallas, Texas against Henry Wad…
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Welcome to Episode 1 of I am Roe, Hear Me Roar. This introductory episode is a table of contents of sorts for the podcast so you know what to expect. Here’s the scoop. What is the show about? Specifically, I am Roe, Hear Me Roar is a legal podcast. It will paint a clear picture of the legal landscape surrounding abortion in the United States. It is…
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Welcome to I Am Roe, Hear Me Roar! I'm your host, Kelley Keller. This podcast recounts the journey of Jane Roe, Henry Wade, their cataclysmic meeting in the United States Supreme Court, and the ensuing aftermath. The show will focus on asking and answering the following questions: What exactly does Roe say? What exactly does Roe NOT say? What is th…
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