Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFathoms of Wampum: Trade in New England and New Netherland in the 1620s-30s
Season 1 Episode 99
This episode is about the trading between the Dutch of New Netherland, the English first of Plymouth and then of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the Al…
3 years, 8 months ago
A Kingdom of God on the Rio Grande
Season 1 Episode 98
In this episode, we return to New Mexico and look at the ambitious mission-building program of the Franciscans in the Pueblos of New Mexico during th…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Spanish Explore the Coast of California
Season 1 Episode 97
In this episode we roll back the timeline a bit to 1602, and recount the exploration and mapping of the coast of California by Sabastian Vizcaino. H…
3 years, 8 months ago
Sidebar: Notes on Thanksgiving (Encore Presentation)
Season 1 Episode 96
This is an encore presentation of one of most popular episodes, "Notes on Thanksgiving," which dropped on Thanksgiving Day, 2021. This is a great pre…
3 years, 9 months ago
Sidebar: Notes From My Trip to Cuba and Other Stuff
Season 1 Episode 95
This Sidebar episode starts with my notes from my trip to Cuba "in support of the Cuban people," one of the exceptions to the general ban on American…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Lord of Misrule
Season 1 Episode 94
This episode is about a happy-go-lucky Englishman named Thomas Morton, whom William Bradford dubbed the “Lord of Misrule,” and who would be a thorn i…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Purchase of Manhattan and Other Dutch Treats
Season 1 Episode 93
New Netherland gets off to a rocky start, with uncommonly poor leadership. Fortunately, a very capable leader, Peter Minuit, steps forward after a c…
3 years, 10 months ago
Here Come The Dutch!
Season 1 Episode 92
This is the beginning of the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colonization of today's New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and elsewhere in the mid-A…
3 years, 10 months ago
Sidebar: Considering Columbus Counterfactuals! (Encore presentation)
Season 1 Episode 91
This is an encore presentation of our special Columbus Day episode, which originally dropped on October 12, 2021. It remains one of the most popular…
3 years, 10 months ago
After the Sky Fell
Season 1 Episode 90
We are back in Virginia. Opechancanough's attack of March 22, 1622, the day the sky fell, has knocked the English back on their heels, but not out of…
3 years, 10 months ago