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.
Attention Boston-area listeners and friends of the pod: We will do a meet-up on June 25, 2025 at 5:30 at Trillium – Fort Point, 50 Thomson Pl, Boston...
Map of the rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes on April 18, 1775, from the Paul Revere House museum, photo credit me. Interactive map from Paul...
Here are some useful maps for following alone with the complicated story of King Philip’s War. The first three come from Matthew J...
Longstanding listener Bruce Hawkins wrote to suggest that I put together a single page with the books I have used for The History of the Americans...
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...
