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Season 1 Episode 157
Early North Carolina, originally part of a territory called Carolana, is all but ignored in most surveys of American history. After a fast start – b…
2 years, 1 month ago
War on the Hudson Part 2
Season 1 Episode 156
Late in the morning on June 7, 1663, soldiers of the Esopus Indians attacked the fortified Dutch settlements of New Village – now Hurley, New York – …
2 years, 1 month ago
Sidebar: A Conversation with Amanda Bellows
Season 1 Episode 155
Amanda Bellows is a U.S. historian who teaches at The New School, a university in New York City. She is the author of American Slavery and Russian Se…
2 years, 1 month ago
War on the Hudson Part 1
Season 1 Episode 154
Just before dawn on September 15, 1655, the same day Pieter Stuyvesant would extract the surrender of New Sweden on the Delaware River, more than 500…
2 years, 2 months ago
Roger Williams Saves Rhode Island Again!
Season 1 Episode 153
For more than twenty years, the Puritan colonies of New England - Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven - would do their utmost to …
2 years, 2 months ago
The Life and Times of Samuell Gorton
Season 1 Episode 152
Kenneth W. Porter, writing in The New England Quarterly in 1934, said that “Samuell Gorton could probably have boasted that he caused the ruling elem…
2 years, 2 months ago
Rogues and Dogs and Fendall’s Rebellion
Season 1 Episode 151
This episode is about a radically democratic political movement in Maryland in the 1650s. Veterans of the New Model Army, many of whom had been swim…
2 years, 3 months ago
Regicides on the Run!
Season 1 Episode 150
In May 1660, Oliver Cromwell now dead, Charles II was restored as King of England. The 59 judges who in 1649 had signed the death warrant of the kin…
2 years, 3 months ago
The End of New Haven Colony
Season 1 Episode 149
This is the story of the New Haven Colony from 1643 until is absorption by Connecticut in 1664. We look at the colony's economic, military, and geop…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Founding of New Haven Colony
Season 1 Episode 148
Of the organized Puritan settlements in New England in the first half of the 17th century – Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Connecticut being foremo…
2 years, 4 months ago