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Back to SearchThe Dissenters: Anne Hutchinson Part 1
Season 1 Episode 118
Anne Hutchinson was the first famous European-American woman, and after Matoaka/Pocahontas, only the second still-famous woman in the lands now encom…
3 years, 2 months ago
Sidebar: “The Soldier’s Faith,” a Memorial Day Speech
Season 1 Episode 117
On May 30 – Memorial Day -- 1895, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., a Harvard man and then a justice on the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, delivered an ad…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Pequot War 3: Annihilation
Season 1 Episode 116
In the spring and summer of 1637, the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay, the English settlers on the Connecticut River, and their Indian allies, the Narr…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Pequot War 2: Blundering Into War
Season 1 Episode 115
After the killing of John Oldham and his crew at Block Island, the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony mobilized an expedition of 90 men under t…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Pequot War 1: The Geopolitics of New England in the 1630s
Season 1 Episode 114
The Pequot War of 1636-1638 was the first time that Europeans in the lands of today’s United States launched a fundamentally offensive war to reduce …
3 years, 3 months ago
Sidebar Interview: Melissa Darby on Sir Francis Drake and the Search for Novo Albion
Season 1 Episode 113
This is a fun one, especially for fans of Sir Francis Drake! Longstanding and attentive listeners will remember Melissa Darby as the author of the 20…
3 years, 3 months ago
That Time Maryland and Virginia Went to War
Season 1 Episode 112
The founding of Maryland was contentious, because its territory falls within the original mandate of the Virginia Company. Longstanding and attentiv…
3 years, 4 months ago
Washington Meet-up Details and Some Other Stuff
Season 1 Episode 111
This is a micro-episode to talk about our forthcoming meet-up in Washington and some other stuff. Our Washington, DC meetup for fans of the podcast w…
3 years, 4 months ago
Jean Nicolet’s Journey to Wisconsin in 1634
Season 1 Episode 111
In this episode we tell the story of Jean Nicolet, one of Samuel de Champlain's embedded interpreters. In the summer of 1634, Champlain sent Nicolet…
3 years, 4 months ago
Roger Williams Part 3: Into the Wild
Season 1 Episode 110
Roger Williams has fled into the freezing New England winter of 1636, steps ahead of the law. He makes his way from Salem to Narragansett Bay, spend…
3 years, 5 months ago