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Back to SearchBacon’s Rebellion 5: Bacon’s Lousy Luck
Season 1 Episode 197
Last episode ended with Sir William Berkeley, on the deck of a ship in the James, watching Jamestown burn to the ground in the wee hours of September…
10 months ago
Bacon’s Rebellion 4: The Burning of Jamestown
Season 1 Episode 196
Virginia Governor Sir William Berkeley has fled to the Eastern Shore with a small group of loyalist planters and a detachment of perhaps only fifty a…
10 months, 1 week ago
Bacon’s Rebellion 3: Go Ahead, Shoot!
Season 1 Episode 195
Nathaniel Bacon and his army of volunteers have returned from beating up on the friendly Occaneechees (Occaneechis) on the Roanoke River in southern …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Bacon’s Rebellion 2: The Susquehannocks Strike Back
Season 1 Episode 194
The Susquehannocks, having successfully escaped from their beseiged fort on Piscataway Creek in Maryland, fled through the Virginia Piedmont to set u…
11 months ago
Bacon’s Rebellion 1: The Case of the Repossessed Hogs
Season 1 Episode 193
The year is 1675, and we are in Virginia. All kinds of social, demographic, fiscal, and economic pressures have been building for decades, and the co…
11 months, 1 week ago
Notes on Virginia 1644-1675
Season 1 Episode 192
We are back in Virginia, finally! In my defense, offered in response to the many listeners who have asked for "more Virginia," the thirty years befor…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Augustine Herrman's Map
Season 1 Episode 191
I got the idea for this episode talking to a bartender in Prague. The place was empty, and the fellow was garrulous and quickly said he loved America…
1 year ago
Sidebar Conversation: Phil Magness on The 1619 Project
Season 1 Episode 190
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Dr. Phillip W. Magness is an economic historian and the David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy at the…
1 year ago
King Philip's War 9: Aftermath
Season 1 Episode 189
This is the last episode of our telling of King Philip's War. We cover the fate of the last Algonquian sachems, including the daring capture of Anna…
1 year, 1 month ago
King Philip's War 8: The Defeat of the Algonquians
Season 1 Episode 188
Maps of New England during King Philip’s War In May 1676 the tide of King Philip's War had turned against the Algonquians of southern New England, bu…
1 year, 1 month ago