Podcast Episodes

The First Wave - Closing Editorial

Season 1 Episode 8

Season 1, The First Wave. We will be starting with the background of the reformation and Spanish Armada. Then covering the beginnings of the first th…

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Desperate Shores — The Nation

Season 1 Episode 7

For six episodes, they were always present — standing at the edge of the English story, named but rarely centered. This episode brings them forward. …

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Desperate Shores - The Mayflower

Season 1 Episode 6

September 6th, 1620. The Mayflower leaves England six weeks late, on a companion ship's suspicious leaking, heading into the North Atlantic in autumn…

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Desperate Shores — Rebecca Rolfe

Season 1 Episode 5

She was the daughter of the most powerful chief on the Virginia coast. She was taken hostage at seventeen. She learned English, converted to Christia…

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Desperate Shores —The Starving Time

Season 1 Episode 4

May 14th, 1607. One hundred and four men and boys wade ashore onto a low, marshy Virginia peninsula and drive stakes into the ground. This is Jamesto…

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Desperate Shores — Roanoke

Season 1 Episode 3

On August 27th, 1587, Governor John White stood at the rail of a ship watching the Carolina coast disappear. He was sailing back to England for suppl…

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Desperate Shores - The Price of Passage

Season 1 Episode 2

The Virginia Company had a pitch: seven years of labor in exchange for passage to the New World and ten acres of land at the end of it. The handbill …

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Desperate Shores — The World That Sent Them

Season 1 Episode 1

Before Roanoke. Before Jamestown. Before any English ship sailed west with settlers and catastrophically bad planning, there was the world that sent …

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An Introduction to American Political History

Season 1

American Political History is the full story of this country, told through the people who lived it. The bayonet charge at Little Round Top. The boys …

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