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England in the 1500s and the Rise of the Merchant Adventurers
Jul 23, 2021England was quite late to the North American party, yet ultimately established the most enduring and therefore consequential settlements. An overview of England of the 1500s, economically, politicall...
The Spanish on the Atlantic Coast and the Strange Story of Don Luis
Jul 15, 2021The year is 1566. Pedro Menéndez de Avilés has founded St. Augustine and ejected the French from Florida. In this episode, we are going to look at the next Spanish moves in the region, all of which w...
Sidebar: The Author and Signers of the Declaration of Independence, by Woodrow Wilson
Jul 04, 2021This episode is a “sidebar,” in this case way, way, way, off the timeline. The title of the episode is also the title of a speech given by Woodrow Wilson on July 4, 1907. The occasion was the Jamest...
Pedro Menendez, the Founding of St. Augustine and the Slaughter of the Huguenots: The Other Side of the Story
Jul 01, 2021The title of today’s episode is Pedro Menendez, the Founding of St. Augustine and the Slaughter of the Huguenots: The Other Side of the Story. If you listened to last week’s episode, which involved ...
Charlesfort and the Massacre at Fort Caroline
Jun 26, 2021This episode looks at the first Protestant attempt to settle the lands now encompassed by the United States, the French expeditions to Parris Island, South Carolina, and the coast near Jacksonville, F...
Calamity at Pensacola
Jun 19, 2021In this eclectic episode we round up various minor Spanish incursions into today’s United States, including the “discovery” of San Diego, the origin of the name “California,” the murder of some friars...
Sidebar: Taking Stock
Jun 10, 2021Our 25th episode is a Sidebar, “Taking Stock.” I talk about the origins of the podcast, and how its approach to history fits in with today’s trends in scholarship, including the “Atlantic World” and #...
The Coronado Entrada into the American Southwest Part 2
Jun 05, 2021In this episode we conclude the story of the Coronado Entrada into the American Southwest. By the spring of 1540, a few hundred Spaniards, a few free and enslaved Blacks, perhaps a thousand Indios Am...
The Coronado Entrada into the American Southwest Part 1
May 27, 2021We are now in late May 1539, almost exactly 482 years ago as I write this. Friar Marcos is alone with a bunch of Indios Amigos – literally, friendly Indians who had not been enslaved — somewhere in Ar...
Esteban and the Prelude to the Coronado Expedition
May 21, 2021This episode welcomes back our old friend from the Cabeza de Vaca saga, Esteban, and the advance scouting work he led, with a drunken friar, for the Coronado expedition into the American southwest. #V...