Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKing Philip’s War 1: The Kindling of War
Season 1 Episode 177
This episode looks at the background causes of the brutal war between the New English colonies of Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, and Connecticut and th…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jolliet and Marquette: Loose Ends and Notes on Early Chicago
Season 1 Episode 176
This episode ties up the loose ends that remained at the end of the expedition of Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette in 1673. Among other things, we…
1 year, 6 months ago
Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette Explore the "Mesippi"
Season 1 Episode 175
In the summer of 1673, two now famous Frenchmen and five others who are all but nameless traveled by canoe from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan at th…
1 year, 6 months ago
Raid on America 3: “All Theyr Cry was for New Yorke!”
Season 1 Episode 174
This is the last of a three-episode series on the Dutch "raid on America" in 1673, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Commander Cornelis Evertsen the…
1 year, 7 months ago
Raid on America 2: Kees the Devil Sails
Season 1 Episode 173
This is the second of three episodes about a daring Dutch raid on the West Indies and the English colonies of North America during the Third Anglo-Du…
1 year, 7 months ago
Raid on America 1: Overview of the Anglo-Dutch Wars
Season 1 Episode 172
This is the first of three episodes about a daring Dutch raid on the West Indies and the English colonies of North America during the Third Anglo-Dut…
1 year, 7 months ago
New Jersey Is Revolting!
Season 1 Episode 171
In 1672, the settlers of the New Jersey proprietary colony arose in a bloodless rebellion against Philip Carteret, appointed by the proprietors as go…
1 year, 8 months ago
The First English Settlement of South Carolina
Season 1 Episode 170
The first English settlers in today's South Carolina departed England in August, 1669, but would not actually get to the coast of Carolina until Apri…
1 year, 8 months ago
Lord Ashley, John Locke, and the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
Season 1 Episode 169
Notwithstanding the promising expeditions of William Hilton and Robert Sandford, by the end of 1666, with the Carolina proprietors waging war with th…
1 year, 9 months ago
Barbadians Explore South Carolina
Season 1 Episode 168
Spaniards had been in South Carolina off and on since perhaps 1514, and certainly by 1521. Even in the 1660s Spaniards occasionally came up the coast…
1 year, 9 months ago