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 and his crew sailed around the world, robbing “the Spaniard” blind along the way.
Further reading
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...
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...
In Drake Around The World Pt. 2 you asked why the native people near Tierra Del Fuego might have built large bondfires on shore as ships passed by. I have a guess. My brother who lives in Bermuda told me that the early settlers of Bermuda were shipwrecked thieves and scoundrels, for the most part. He said they would light huge bondfires on shore to attract sailing vessels to enter waters with hidden reefs near shore. When the ships hit the reefs and faltered, the locals went to work salvaging the cargo of valuables and useful items. When you asked about why the natives lit those fires, this story came to mind.
I’m a relatively new listener, and enjoy your podcast on my daily walks along the shores of Ketchikan Alaska.
Great comment, thank you. Very interesting.