England was quite late to the North American party, yet ultimately established the most enduring and therefore consequential settlements. An overview of England of the 1500s, economically, politicall

The year is 1566. Pedro Menndez de Avils has founded St. Augustine and ejected the French from Florida. In this episode, we are going to look at the next Spanish moves in the region, all of which w

This episode is a sidebar, in this case way, way, way, off the timeline. The title of the episode is also the title of a speech given by Woodrow Wilson on July 4, 1907. The occasion was the Jamest

The title of todays episode is Pedro Menendez, the Founding of St. Augustine and the Slaughter of the Huguenots: The Other Side of the Story. If you listened to last weeks episode, which involved

This episode looks at the first Protestant attempt to settle the lands now encompassed by the United States, the French expeditions to Parris Island, South Carolina, and the coast near Jacksonville, Florida.

In this eclectic episode we round up various minor Spanish incursions into today's United States, including the "discovery" of San Diego, the origin of the name "California," the murder of some friars at -- this is no surprise -- Tampa Bay,

Our 25th episode is a Sidebar, "Taking Stock." I talk about the origins of the podcast, and how its approach to history fits in with today's trends in scholarship, including the "Atlantic World" and #VastEarlyAmerica. Oh,

In this episode we conclude the story of the Coronado Entrada into the American Southwest. By the spring of 1540, a few hundred Spaniards, a few free and enslaved Blacks, perhaps a thousand Indios Amigos – literally,

We are now in late May 1539, almost exactly 482 years ago as I write this. Friar Marcos is alone with a bunch of Indios Amigos literally, friendly Indians who had not been enslaved -- somewhere in A

This episode welcomes back our old friend from the Cabeza de Vaca saga, Esteban, and the advance scouting work he led, with a drunken friar, for the Coronado expedition into the American southwest.#V