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Back to SearchRoger Williams Part 2: Expulsion
Season 1 Episode 109
It is the summer of 1634. When last we were with Roger Williams – helpfully, just the last episode – he was living in Salem, keeping his head down, a…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Dissenters: Roger Williams Part 1
Season 1 Episode 108
First off, a brief item of business for those of you listening in close to real time – on April 11, 2023, I’ll be in Washington with some free time i…
3 years, 5 months ago
Sidebar: Kenny Ryan of the Abridged Presidential Histories Podcast
Season 1 Episode 107
Our guest today is Kenny Ryan, host of another great history pod, Abridged Presidential Histories with Kenny Ryan. Abridged Presidential Histories Po…
3 years, 6 months ago
Introduction to Puritan Theology
Season 1 Episode 106
This is the first of several non-consecutive episodes about Roger Williams, whom we have teased a few times already. Williams was one of early New E…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Settlement of Massachusetts Bay
Season 1 Episode 105
The Winthrop Fleet has arrived, but Salem is not what they had expected. John Winthrop leads an expedition to explore Massachusetts Bay, meets Samue…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Massachusetts Puritans: What You Need to Know!
Season 1 Episode 104
This episode is a backgrounder, an overview of the Puritan society, culture, and economy in New England during the seventeenth century. The objectiv…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Winthrop Fleet and the City on the Hill
Season 1 Episode 103
We have arrived at the Great Migration of the Puritans to Massachusetts, which effectively began in 1628 and would continue until 1640 or so, and the…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Rise of the Puritans Part 2: The Crisis of the Late 1620s
Season 1 Episode 102
This episode looks at the collapse of trust between Charles I and anti-Puritan royalists and clerics, on the one hand, and Parliament, Puritans, anti…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Rise of the Puritans Part 1: Parliament Confronts the Crown
Season 1 Episode 101
Between 1628 and 1640 perhaps 20,000 Puritans would leave England and settle in Boston and environs. Then English immigration to Massachusetts would…
3 years, 7 months ago
Interview: Eric Yanis of the Other States of America History Podcast
Season 1 Episode 100
This is our one hundredth episode, at least by some counts, and also our first interview. Eric Yanis, the creator and host of The Other States of Am…
3 years, 8 months ago