Back in April 2021, as we traveled the Florida Keys for a vacation much-deserved by my wife, who has been working very hard, and not-at-all deserved by me, I read a good part of Samuel Bawlfs book T

In this episode, we follow the Soto expedition in the American south from the aftermath of the battle of Mabila to the discovery of the Mississippi River with more than the usual number of qualifier

This episode is the third to explore Hernando de Sotos invasion of the American southeast from 1539-1542. Our goal, as always, is to make history fun and interesting, even when it is also brutal and

Welcome to the History of the Americans Podcast, episode 18. This episode is Hernando de Soto part 2. Last week we introduced the story of Hernando de Sotos three year invasion of the American s

This episode is Hernando de Soto Part 1. I am recording this on April 14, in Key West, Florida. Today we kick off the story of the first real invasion of the American south, Hernando de Sotos rec

Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 16. This episode is called Sidebar: Bringing it all Together. In the History of the Americans podcast, a sidebar is an episode outside of the

This episode is Cabeza de Vaca part 4, the final in the Cabeza de Vaca series. We recorded this episode on March 30, 2021 in Austin, Texas. The last time the remnants of the ill-fated Narvaez expedition landed on a coastal island somewhere near tod...

We will no longer refer to the Narvaez Expedition in the title of the episode because, as you know if you listened to Episode 13, in late November 1528 schizz got seriously real. It could no longer be said that there was a Narvaez Expedition.

This episode continues the shocking story of the doomed Narvez expedition and its almost unbelievable struggle to survive. In this episode, the expedition begins to unravel in Florida, and cooks up

This week we are kicking off perhaps the most unbelievable story of individual survival in all the History of the Americans, the disastrous Narvez expedition and the amazing journey of Cabeza de Vaca