September 19, 2021 – Toward the end of the just-released episode, “The Road to the Roanoke Colonies,” I seem to have lost a year, saying “1582” at least a couple of times when I mean to say “1583.” To be clear, Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland for England and committed suicide by storm on the Squirrel in 1583.
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...
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...
