The History of the Americans
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The History of the Americans
The history of the people who live in the United States, from the beginning.
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Bacon’s Rebellion 3: Go Ahead, Shoot!
Nathaniel Bacon and his army of volunteers have returned from beating up on the friendly Occaneechees (Occaneechis) on the Roanoke River in southern V...
Bacon’s Rebellion 2: The Susquehannocks Strike Back
The Susquehannocks, having successfully escaped from their beseiged fort on Piscataway Creek in Maryland, fled through the Virginia Piedmont to set up...
Bacon’s Rebellion 1: The Case of the Repossessed Hogs
The year is 1675, and we are in Virginia. All kinds of social, demographic, fiscal, and economic pressures have been building for decades, and the com...
Notes on Virginia 1644-1675
We are back in Virginia, finally! In my defense, offered in response to the many listeners who have asked for "more Virginia," the thirty years before...
Augustine Herrman’s Map
I got the idea for this episode talking to a bartender in Prague. The place was empty, and the fellow was garrulous and quickly said he loved American...
Sidebar Conversation: Phil Magness on The 1619 Project
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Dr. Phillip W. Magness is an economic historian and t...
King Philip’s War 9: Aftermath
This is the last episode of our telling of King Philip's War. We cover the fate of the last Algonquian sachems, including the daring capture of Annaw...
King Philip’s War 8: The Defeat of the Algonquians
Maps of New England during King Philip’s War
In May 1676 the tide of King Philip's War had turned against the Algonquians o...
King Philip’s War 7: The Turn of the Tide
Maps of New England during King Philip’s War
March 1676 had been catastrophic for the settlers of New England. Algonquians...
King Philip’s War 6: The Awful Winter of 1676
Maps of New England during King Philip’s War
After the Great Swamp Fight, Josiah Winslow turned away overtures from the Nar...
King Philip’s War 5: Enter the Narragansetts
Maps of New England during King Philip’s War
It is the fall of 1675, and "King Philip's War" rages on. The English colonie...
Sidebar: “The Soldier’s Faith,” a Memorial Day Speech (Encore Presentation)
This is an encore presentation of a Sidebar episode we originally posted on Memorial Day 2023. It seems even more relevant today, strange as that may...
Interview with Matthew J. Tuininga
Matthew J. Tuininga is Professor of Christian Ethics and the History of Christianity at Calvin Theological Seminary in Michigan. He is author or edito...
King Philip’s War 4: “Wheeler’s Surprise” and the Problem of Counterinsurgency
Maps of New England during King Philip’s War
At the end of July 1675 two important things were happening at once. King Phil...
Sidebar: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere 2: The Ride
This is the second of two "Sidebar" episodes in honor of the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s famous ride, which we will celebrate on the night of A...
Sidebar: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere 1: The Prelude
April 18, 2025 is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's "Midnight Ride" to alarm the towns around Boston that the "Regulars" were marching out to cap...
King Philip’s War 3: The Fire Spreads
It is July 1675 in New England. On June 23, fighting men of the Wampanoag nation and of Plymouth Colony had begun killing each other and enemy civili...
King Philip’s War 2: Lighting the Match
After Massasoit's death in 1660 or 1661, his son Wamsutta became sachem of the Pokonoket community and the leading sachem of the Wampanoag confederati...
King Philip’s War 1: The Kindling of War
This episode looks at the background causes of the brutal war between the New English colonies of Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, and Connecticut and the...
Jolliet and Marquette: Loose Ends and Notes on Early Chicago
This episode ties up the loose ends that remained at the end of the expedition of Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette in 1673. Among other things, we...
Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette Explore the “Mesippi”
In the summer of 1673, two now famous Frenchmen and five others who are all but nameless traveled by canoe from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan at the...
Raid on America 3: “All Theyr Cry was for New Yorke!”
This is the last of a three-episode series on the Dutch "raid on America" in 1673, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Commander Cornelis Evertsen the...
Raid on America 2: Kees the Devil Sails
This is the second of three episodes about a daring Dutch raid on the West Indies and the English colonies of North America during the Third Anglo-Dut...
Raid on America 1: Overview of the Anglo-Dutch Wars
This is the first of three episodes about a daring Dutch raid on the West Indies and the English colonies of North America during the Third Anglo-Dutc...
New Jersey Is Revolting!
In 1672, the settlers of the New Jersey proprietary colony arose in a bloodless rebellion against Philip Carteret, appointed by the proprietors as gov...
The First English Settlement of South Carolina
The first English settlers in today's South Carolina departed England in August, 1669, but would not actually get to the coast of Carolina until April...
Lord Ashley, John Locke, and the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
Notwithstanding the promising expeditions of William Hilton and Robert Sandford, by the end of 1666, with the Carolina proprietors waging war with the...
Barbadians Explore South Carolina
Spaniards had been in South Carolina off and on since perhaps 1514, and certainly by 1521. Even in the 1660s Spaniards occasionally came up the coast...
Ohhhh! Whaddabout New Jersey?
New Jersey is something of a puzzle, especially as a matter of early colonial history. The future Garden State rates barely a mention in most surveys...
Introduction to the Columbian Exchange (Revised)
In recognition of the holiday(s),* this is a revision of one of the podcast's earliest episodes, Introduction to the Columbian Exchange. The "Columbia...
English Colonial Governance in a Nutshell: Charters, Proprietaries, and Royal Colonies
This blessedly short episode encapsulates the types of English colonial government in the 17th and 18th centuries, which were chartered corporations,...
Sidebar Interview: David Beito on the New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights
David T. Beito's most recent book, and the subject of this conversation, is The New Deal’s War On the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concen...
The Fall of New Amsterdam and the Founding of New York
In August 1664, an English fleet acting under the orders of James, Duke of York, the brother of King Charles II, materialized off Manhattan and forced...
Spanish Florida and the “Republic of Indians”
While the English were consolidating their territory on most of the eastern seaboard of North America in the 1600s, Spanish Florida plugged along with...
Spanish Florida in the 1600s: Indian Wars, Yellow Fever, and Pirates!
We are back to Spanish Florida after a long hiatus, with the story of St. Augustine, La Florida after the founding of the city and the slaughter of th...
The Official Founding of North Carolina
In March 1663, after 97 years of failed attempts by first the Spanish and then the English to establish settlements in North Carolina, King Charles II...
Sidebar: The Master of the Senate
On July 29, 2024, President Joe Biden visited The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the...
The Free County of Albemarle
In the early 1660s, a motley crew of free-thinkers, republican veterans of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army, and Quakers would build the freest place...
Carolana On My Mind
Early North Carolina, originally part of a territory called Carolana, is all but ignored in most surveys of American history. After a fast start – bo...
War on the Hudson Part 2
Late in the morning on June 7, 1663, soldiers of the Esopus Indians attacked the fortified Dutch settlements of New Village – now Hurley, New York – a...