Since in the podcast timeline we are still at the very beginning of North American settlement, we have not gone too deeply into the vexing question of slavery, whether of Indians or Africans, apart from mentioning the topic when it fits into the story. We shall get there. In the meantime, here’s a very well done video that shows, in two minutes, the flow of African enslaved people to various destinations in the western hemisphere over a period of roughly three hundred years.
This post is a copy of a translation of Martin Kregier’s “Journal of the Second Esopus War,” which is tough to locate online. I...
For those of you who have become unreconstructed fans of Sir Francis Drake, here’s a nice new video on the Golden Hind, the ship in which he...
Because it is impossible to get enough of me, I appeared on the Michele Tafoya Podcast on January 25, 2024. Michele’s podcast is on the...
Longstanding and attentive listeners have heard me inveigh against “useable history,” or the weaponization of it to win the political...
The main purpose of this micro-episode is to give you the details on the much ballyhooed Philadelphia area meet-up of fans of the podcast. The...
Kevin Padula, proprietor of “The Story of Rhode Island” podcast, had me on to talk about matters Puritan, and especially the expulsions...
