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Sidebar: A Pirate's Tale
May 13, 2021Back in April 2021, as we traveled the Florida Keys for a vacation much-deserved by my wife, who has been working very hard, and not-at-all deserved by me, I read a good part of Samuel Bawlf’s book “T...
The End of Hernando de Soto
May 06, 2021In this episode, we follow the Soto expedition in the American south from the aftermath of the battle of Mabila to the “discovery” of the Mississippi River with more than the usual number of qualifier...
Hernando de Soto Part 3
Apr 30, 2021This episode is the third to explore Hernando de Soto’s invasion of the American southeast from 1539-1542. Our goal, as always, is to make history fun and interesting, even when it is also brutal and...
Hernando de Soto Part 2
Apr 22, 2021Last time we introduced the story of Hernando de Soto’s three year invasion of the American south, from 1539 to his death in 1542, ending the episode just as his 600 man expedition arrived on the gulf...
Hernando de Soto Part 1
Apr 15, 2021Today we kick off the story of the first real invasion of the American south, Hernando de Soto’s reconnaissance-in-force – the Spanish word is entrada — from 1539-1542. Last week’s episode tied up var...
Sidebar: Bringing It All Together
Apr 08, 2021Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 16. This episode is called “Sidebar: Bringing it all Together.” In the History of the Americans podcast, a sidebar is an episode outside of the...
Cabeza de Vaca Part 4
Apr 01, 2021The last time the remnants of the ill-fated Narvaez expedition landed on a coastal island somewhere near today’s Galveston, Texas and, thereby, “discovered” Texas. Of the eighty or so alive at the en...
Cabeza de Vaca Part 3
Mar 25, 2021We will no longer refer to the Narvaez Expedition in the title of the episode because, as you know if you listened to Episode 13, in late November 1528 schizz got seriously real. It could no longer be...
The Narváez Expedition and Cabeza de Vaca Part 2
Mar 19, 2021This episode continues the shocking story of the doomed Narváez expedition and its almost unbelievable struggle to survive. In this episode, the expedition begins to unravel in Florida, and cooks up ...
The Narváez Expedition and Cabeza de Vaca Part 1
Mar 12, 2021This week we are kicking off perhaps the most unbelievable story of individual survival in all the History of the Americans, the disastrous Narváez expedition and the amazing journey of Cabeza de Vaca...