In this episode we venture back to Florida, and the first of several almost comically incompetent attempts by the Spanish to settle the area, including Ponce de Leon's second expedition in 1521, and the very ephemeral settlement of San MIguel de Gualda...

With the English looking for a northwest passage and the Spanish pressing in to Florida and up the Atlantic Coast, the French get in to the exploration game. French King Francis I gets his own Italian explorer, Giovanni da Verrazzano,

We now hasten to the first European exploration of the lands now constituting the United States, and that means the first sanctioned expedition to Florida in 1513 by Juan Ponce de Leon, and the legend of the Fountain of Youth.

Introduction to the Columbian Exchange introduces listeners to the extraordinary consequences of the interhemispheric transmission of diseases, food crops, populations, cultures, and technologies in the years after Columbus’s famous First Voyage.

This is our last episode on Christopher Columbus. This time we discuss the voyage home, which required impressive seamanship in the context of delivering some of the most important news ever to travel by sea,

This is our fourth episode on Christopher Columbus, this time looking at his first exploration of Cuba and Hispaniola, his "pivot" in the positioning of his mission with his investors, and the preparations for the very difficult voyage home.

This is our third episode on Christopher Columbus, which looks at his voyage west from the morning of his departure from Spain, his stop in the Canaries, the crossing of the Atlantic ahead of the fine easterly trade winds that blow at that latitude,

This is our second episode on Christopher Columbus. This episode is about the ten years it took Columbus, ever the entrepreneur, to attract the lead investors and sponsors for his proposed expedition to the west, to negotiate the deal, and,

This episode is the first of at least five on Christopher Columbus, the "Admiral of the Ocean Sea." The episode discusses why Columbus should figure in to this history of the Americans in the first place, the state of Europe in 1491,

This is the second episode of The History of the Americans podcast, and Part 2 of The Americans Before Columbus. If you have not listened to the first episode, click here. I also recommend that you listen to the short introductory episode,