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Season 1 Episode 50
In this episode we look at the tangled debate over the location of Drake's "fair and good bay." Was it in California? Or do we only believe that bec…
4 years, 8 months ago
Sidebar: Notes on Thanksgiving
Season 1 Episode 49
This November, it has been 400 years since the traditional First Thanksgiving at Plymouth Colony - Patuxet in 1621. But the history of that collabora…
4 years, 9 months ago
Sidebar: Announcements and Some News From History Twitter
Season 1 Episode 48
This episode is off the timeline. We look at the various crimes against humanity to be found on "History Twitter," the idea of pursuing a "useable" h…
4 years, 9 months ago
Epilogues and Consequences: After the Armada and the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke
Season 1 Episode 47
In this episode we wrap up loose ends before moving on down the timeline: What happened after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and what happened af…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada and the Survival of Protestant England Part 2
Season 1 Episode 46
At some point in the second week of August, 1588, a merchant ship from one of the cities of the Hanseatic League, sailing through the North Sea off t…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada and the Survival of Protestant England Part 1
Season 1 Episode 45
On August 28, 1587, John White, the leader of the last Roanoke Colony, climbed on board Edward Spicer’s flyboat and returned to England. His mandate …
4 years, 9 months ago
Set Fair For Roanoke Part 4
Season 1 Episode 44
This episode looks at the fate of the 15 settlers Sir Richard Grenville had left on Roanoke Island in 1586, and the expedition of 1587, which Sir Wal…
4 years, 10 months ago
Drake Burns Down the West Indies and St. Augustine!
Season 1 Episode 43
We are back in the summer of 1585, and careful listeners could hear the ever louder drums of war between Spain and England. In this episode we tell t…
4 years, 10 months ago
Sidebar: Considering Columbus Counterfactuals!
Season 1 Episode 42
This is our special Columbus Day episode, dropped on "old school" Columbus Day, instead of the "Canadian Thanksgiving" Columbus Day long-weekend hol…
4 years, 10 months ago
Set Fair For Roanoke Part 3
Season 1 Episode 41
It is July 1585. Sir Richard Grenville, in command of the first English expedition of colonization to reach the territory that is now the United Stat…
4 years, 10 months ago