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The Life and Times of Samuel Argall and Some Other Stuff
May 11, 2022We’re back after our week off! In this episode we touch on our vacation driving the Natchez Trace, and then proceed briskly to the career of Samuel Argall – Pocahontas’s kidnapper – in the service of...
Sidebar: Justice Gorsuch and the "Insular Cases"
Apr 27, 2022This episode is a “Sidebar,” which is our term for an episode that is off the timeline of the History of the Americans. This episode centers on a concurring opinion delivered by Justice Neil Gorsuch ...
Jamestown and the Powhatans 11: London Town
Apr 22, 2022It is late winter, 1616. When last we left our lovers, John and Rebecca Rolfe were in receipt of a request from the Virginia Company to come to London. They had a young son, Thomas, barely a year ol...
Jamestown and the Powhatans Part 10: True Love
Apr 14, 2022This episode is about the kidnapping and ransom of Pocahontas in 1613, the romancing of her by John Rolfe, her conversion to Christianity, and their marriage in 1614, which settled the First Anglo-Pow...
Jamestown and the Powhatans Part 9: War!
Apr 07, 2022This episode is a close look at the First Anglo-Powhatan War, which began shortly after John Smith left Jamestown forever in October 1609, and ended as a formal matter with the marriage of Pocahontas ...
Revised Introduction for New and Longstanding Listeners
Apr 04, 2022After the experience of 15 months, 66 substantive episodes, and more than 180,000 aggregate downloads/listens, I thought it would be useful to reintroduce the podcast. I labored over the original int...
Jamestown and the Powhatans Part 8: The Emissaries
Mar 30, 2022Again we digress into the question of privateering and letters of marque, and then take on the stories of the two “sons” whom Christopher Newport and the paramount chief Powhatan exchanged as hostages...
Jamestown and the Powhatans Part 7: The Starving Time
Mar 22, 2022In this episode we look at the gruesome “starving time” in Jamestown and the resurgent Powhatan war during the seven months after John Smith’s departure in October 1609. The mortality rate at the colo...
Jamestown and the Powhatans Part 6: Timeline 1609-1622
Mar 18, 2022The episode begins with current events, sorting out the correct reading of the “letters of marque and reprisals” clause of the US Constitution, which actually has nothing to do with Jamestown but touc...
Hudson on the Hudson
Mar 10, 2022Here come the Dutch! In the busy summer of 1609, English captain Henry Hudson, sailing the Half Moon for the Dutch East India Company, explores the Hudson River from New York Bay to the north of Alba...