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Back to SearchHow Indians of the American West Acquired Horses
Season 1 Episode 207
Going down a rabbit hole while learning about the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, I started reading about something I have wondered about – how and when did t…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 2: The Siege of Santa Fe and the Flight to El Paso
Season 1 Episode 206
It is August, 1680 in New Mexico. The rebelling Pueblo Indians have sprung their ambush and quickly killed 400 Spaniards. About 2500 survivors have …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 1: The Kindling of War
Season 1 Episode 205
In August 1680, an alliance of Puebloan peoples, led by a mysterious religious man named Po'pay (also spelled Popé), launched a surprise attack that …
5 months, 1 week ago
Albemarle Arises: Culpeper’s Rebellion
Season 1 Episode 204
In 1677, the longtime residents of the old and remote county of Albemarle in northern Carolina, a collection of cranks and dissidents who had fled fr…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Sidebar: Henry Knox and the Noble Train of Artillery Part 2
Season 1 Episode 203
Twenty-five year-old bookseller Henry Knox, his 19 year-old brother Will, and teamsters led by John Becker, Sr., move a long "noble train" of 59 piec…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Sidebar: Henry Knox and the Noble Train of Artillery Part 1
Season 1 Episode 202
Exactly 250 years ago, a rotund twenty-five year-old Boston bookseller named Henry Knox was riding his horse between Springfield and Worcester Massac…
7 months, 1 week ago
Bacon’s Aftermath 2: Restless Virginia and the Rise of Black Slavery
Season 1 Episode 201
In the last episode on the Timeline, “Bacon’s Aftermath 1: Diplomacy and Conspiracy 1677-1685,” we looked at the political and geopolitical aftermath…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Sidebar Conversation: Matthew Restall on "The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus"
Season 1 Episode 200
Matthew Restall is an historian and author of over forty books, focusing on the Spanish Conquest era in the Americas; on Aztec and Maya history; on t…
8 months ago
Bacon’s Aftermath 1: Diplomacy and Conspiracy 1677-1685
Season 1 Episode 199
This episode looks again at the causes of Bacon's Rebellion in light of what we have now learned, before turning to the region of the Chesapeake in t…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Bacon's Rebellion 6: Recriminations
Season 1 Episode 198
It is late January 1677 in Virginia. Loyalists under the command of Governor Sir William Berkeley had suppressed Bacon's Rebellion just after New Yea…
9 months, 1 week ago