Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOhhhh! Whaddabout New Jersey?
Season 1 Episode 167
New Jersey is something of a puzzle, especially as a matter of early colonial history. The future Garden State rates barely a mention in most survey…
1 year, 10 months ago
Introduction to the Columbian Exchange (Revised)
Season 1 Episode 166
In recognition of the holiday(s),* this is a revision of one of the podcast's earliest episodes, Introduction to the Columbian Exchange. The "Columbi…
1 year, 10 months ago
English Colonial Governance in a Nutshell: Charters, Proprietaries, and Royal Colonies
Season 1 Episode 165
This blessedly short episode encapsulates the types of English colonial government in the 17th and 18th centuries, which were chartered corporations,…
1 year, 10 months ago
Sidebar Interview: David Beito on the New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights
Season 1 Episode 164
David T. Beito's most recent book, and the subject of this conversation, is The New Deal’s War On the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Conce…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Fall of New Amsterdam and the Founding of New York
Season 1 Episode 163
In August 1664, an English fleet acting under the orders of James, Duke of York, the brother of King Charles II, materialized off Manhattan and force…
1 year, 11 months ago
Spanish Florida and the "Republic of Indians"
Season 1 Episode 162
While the English were consolidating their territory on most of the eastern seaboard of North America in the 1600s, Spanish Florida plugged along wit…
1 year, 11 months ago
Spanish Florida in the 1600s: Indian Wars, Yellow Fever, and Pirates!
Season 1 Episode 161
We are back to Spanish Florida after a long hiatus, with the story of St. Augustine, La Florida after the founding of the city and the slaughter of t…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Official Founding of North Carolina
Season 1 Episode 160
In March 1663, after 97 years of failed attempts by first the Spanish and then the English to establish settlements in North Carolina, King Charles I…
2 years ago
Sidebar: The Master of the Senate
Season 1 Episode 159
On July 29, 2024, President Joe Biden visited The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas to commemorate the 60th anniversary of th…
2 years ago
The Free County of Albemarle
Season 1 Episode 158
In the early 1660s, a motley crew of free-thinkers, republican veterans of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army, and Quakers would build the freest place…
2 years ago