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The Other States of America: History PodcastDe Soto: Tampa Bay to Apalachee (1539-1540)Hernando de Soto returns to Spain as one of the richest men in the Empire, from his share of the spoils toppling the Incan Empire. Now he seeks to sail to the New World once more to conquer the Natives of the land the Spanish call Florida convinced the venture will make him the richest man in the world.
2025-03-2434 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNarváez and De Vaca: The Trek from Florida to Mexico (1528-1536)From Florida to Mexico, a large force under Narváez lands at, or near, Tampa Bay in 1528, a few survivors appear in Mexico 8 years later. Along the way they were conquerors, castaways, beggars, shamans, surgeons, unwilling cult leaders and slaves. The primary account by De Vaca is a true story of transformation, or perhaps just an elaborate resume.
2025-01-2159 minThe Other States of America: History PodcastSan Miguel De Gauldape: A Spanish Colony in the American South (1526)A judge named Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón meets a man from the land of Chicora who fills his head with tales of gold, pearls, domesticated deer and men with tails who only eat raw fish. De Ayllón brings the man to the King of Spain, and according to the historian Peter Martyr captivates the attention of the restless masses, 600 of whom will go with de Ayllón to the American South East.
Suggested Reading (full works cited will be presented in the season 4 endnotes episode)
Peter Martyr “Decades of the Ne...
2024-12-2122 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastPonce de León and the Idea of Spanish Florida (1513-1521) Juan Ponce de León is more famous today for the myths that surround him rather than the man that he was. Living in a brutal time, hot on the heels of the Reconquista and the voyages of Christopher Columbus, de León will leave a mark on the island of Puerto Rico and plant the seed for Spanish Florida. A life of high risk, high reward, violent behavior that will not make de León a modern man, but will make him a household name in the modern world.
2024-11-1225 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastEtowah and Coosa: The Moundbuilders of Georgia (c.800-1567)Before the Age of Exploration the Mississippian Chiefdoms in North America vied for influence, cultivated vast stretches of land, created Hierarchies and elevated their leaders to sem-divine figures honored with massive earthen mounds. The Chiefdoms of Etowah and Coosa in modern day North-Western Georgia, had influence and reputation from the gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, and are a source of pride for the Muskogean peoples today.
Image Sources:
Maps and Artwork: The Superb Herb Roe, Creative Commons.
Images: Georgia Department of Natural Resources https://gastateparks.org/etowahindianmounds
2024-10-2829 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastSeason 4: The New Old SouthSeason four of The Other States of America: History Podcast.
2024-10-1702 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastVice President John Tyler: Our Vices #10The Vice Presidency of John Tyler. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.
2024-10-1110 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastVice President Richard Mentor Johnson: Our Vices #9The Vice Presidency of Richard Mentor Johnson. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.
2024-10-1013 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastVice President Martin Van Buren: Our Vices #8The Vice Presidency of Martin Van Buren. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.
2024-10-0911 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastVice President John C. Calhoun: Our Vices #7The Vice Presidency of John C. Calhoun. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.
2024-10-0818 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastVice President Daniel D. Tompkins: Our Vices #6The Vice Presidency of Daniel D. Tompkins. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.
2024-10-0709 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastVice President Elbridge Gerry: Our Vices #5The Vice Presidency Elbridge Gerry. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.
2024-10-0509 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastVice President George Clinton: Our Vices #4The Vice Presidency of George Clinton. Our Vices is the post season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.
2024-10-0413 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastVice President Aaron Burr: Our Vices #3The Vice Presidency of Aaron Burr. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.
2024-10-0216 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastVice President Thomas Jefferson: Our Vices #2The Vice Presidency of Thomas Jefferson. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.
2024-10-0116 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastVice President John Adams: Our Vices #1The Vice Presidency of John Adams. Our Vices is the post-season show of the Other States of America: History Podcast.
2024-10-0111 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastSeason III: Endnotes and Post Season Show Our VicesThe end of season three of the Other States of America: History Podcast. Endnotes appear in video as word limit will not allow everything to fit in this description.
Thank you for listening!
Eric Yanis
2024-09-2810 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastEast and West Jersey Reunited (1689-1702)New Jersey, in its' short history after 1664, faced absorption by New York, a takeover by the Dutch, division into two colonies and absorption by the Dominion of New England. Having weathered a troubled beginning the two halves of New Jersey find cause to unite once again and create the colony that will become the state we all know and love.
2024-09-1822 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastFall of the Dominion of New England (1688-1689)Sir Edmund Andros, Governor-General of the Dominion of New England, a super colonial entity containing what will one day be 6 of the original 13 colonies, faces the oncoming wave of the Glorious Revolution as it crosses the Atlantic breaks upon the American shore. The outcome will shape American History to our present time.
2024-09-1555 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastRise of the Dominion of New England (1686-1688)With the era of isolation rapidly closing for the Puritan Colonies, King James II seeks to unifying New England (and beyond) into a massive super-colonial dominion, governed by Sir Edmund Andros without an assembly, in defiance of the Magna Carta.
2024-08-151h 07
The Other States of America: History PodcastEast New Jersey: Governing the Impossible (1674-1688)Governor Phillip Carteret running his cousin's colony of New Jersey faces the humiliation of having the colony taken by the Dutch, and then split into two once back in English hands. Now the Governor of the Colony of East New Jersey Carteret and his successors will have to battle the constant threat of being absorbed by New York, while dealing with a population always teetering on rebellion.
2024-08-0246 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastWest New Jersey and the Quaker Exodus (1675-1688)The persecuted Quakers search for a refuge in the New World and manage to tear away half of the New Jersey Colony for themselves.
2024-07-2444 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastFenwick's Colony and the Division of New Jersey (1674-1682)With New Jersey still in Dutch hands Lord Berkeley is convinced to sell his half-interest in the Colony to a man named John Fenwick, and in a quick turn of events the New Jersey Colony is split into three East New Jersey, West New Jersey and Fenwick's Colony, perhaps the most peculiar of them all.
2024-07-1331 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew New Netherland: The Fall of New York and New Jersey (1673-74)With the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, the New York and New Jersey Colonies, rife with internal strife, are barely governable with wavering loyalties. An Admiral from Holland and an Admiral from Zeeland plot to restore the colony of New Netherland.
2024-07-021h 09
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Albion: Sir Edmund and the Knights of New Albion (1642-49)Sir Edmund Plowden (or Ployden) designs an American Colony for which he and his seventeen children will rule as lords over feudal estates, aided by the Knight of New Albion, intent on spreading Catholicism by the book or the sword. However, the territory granted to Sir Edmund by King Charles I overlaps that of New Netherland, New Sweden, an offshoot of the New Haven Colony and the Leni Lenape. Despite the overwhelming challenges ahead, Sir Edmund sails to the New World to set them all straight.
2024-04-2422 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe United Colonies of New England II: Confederation or Absorption (1644-1690)The four Puritan colonies of New England, after one successful decade of confederation, faces headwinds internally and externally as the Dutch, Natives, English authorities and their own settlers threaten to disrupt the Puritan Oligarchy.
2024-04-181h 13
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe Wampanoag IV: King Phillip's War (1675-76)After 54 years of peace, the tension between the English and the Pokanoket leaders of the Wampanoag Paramount Chiefdom boil over into the one of the deadliest wars, per capita, in history.
2024-04-031h 40
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe Wampanoag III: Wampanoag Antebellum (1625-1671)An often overlooked period in Wampanoag history is the period of time between the height of Ousamequin's power among the Wampanoag in 1624-25 and his son Metacomet's decision to attack the settlers at Swansea in 1675. However, this period is full of Native politics, suspected poisonings, fraudulent wills, a rumors of war.
2024-02-201h 11
The Other States of America: History PodcastMartha's Vineyard and Nantucket Colonies (1642-1671)Looking to remove himself from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Thomas Mayhew purchases the right to settle and set up a government on islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket from the Earl of Stirling, and gradually purchases the land from the Wampanoag. Mayhew settles the Vineyard and later sells off Nantucket to a like minded group of friends and extended relations under Tristram Coffin. Both Island co-exist as separate colonies ran by their proprietors as if it were a joint stock company. Eventually they are annexed by a larger colony... and it's not the one you think.
2024-01-2840 minThe Other States of America: History PodcastJohn Scott: The President of Long Island (1664)An indentured servant boy with a questionable origin story, supposedly inherits a large piece of Long Island from a Native American leader, selling much of it each new buyer has a vested interest in John Scott's claim being legitimate. What follows is a story of conflict and takeover of the New Netherland Colony, treason against the Connecticut colony as its' Long island settlements pull away, pregnant women smuggling objects into prison, all the while John Scott reinventing himself, often falling upwards in life, and helping to shape the boundaries (and existence) of three US States. Believe as much or...
2023-12-2235 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe New Haven Colony II: The Great Ghost Ship, Witchcraft and Regicides (1645-1664)The New Haven colony, originally created to be the most puritanical of puritan colonies, now faces internal and external threats which will wear away the optimism of God's elect.
2023-12-0247 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe United Colonies of New England I: The New England Confederation Begins (1643-1652)While England devolves into Civil War, the four Puritan Colonies of New England form a Confederation, leaning on one another for a little order in a chaotic world. Together the United Colonies will have to contend with Roger William's Rhode Island Colony, Sir Ferdinando Gorges' Maine Colony, and the Dutch in New Netherland, all while navigating Native politics, plots and assassination attempts.
2023-10-2346 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe New Haven Colony I: The Purest of Puritans (1638-1644)Reverend John Davenport and his childhood friend, businessman
Theophilus Eaton, lead a wave of the wealthiest and strictest Puritans out of England, unknowingly toward the tail end of the Puritan Exodus. Arriving in Massachusetts they find the colony divided and the "City on a Hill" already tainted with heresy. Davenport and Eaton decide to form their own colony of New Haven out beyond the domain of Massachusetts, Plymouth or Rhode Island.
2023-10-0954 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe Saybrook Colony: The Pequot War and a Refuge for Puritan Lords (1635-1644)The great Puritan Lords of England buy a readymade colony on the edge of the English world. Rumored to be a last resort refuge for nobles plotting against King Charles I, if everything were to go south, Saybrook was to be a place of peace. Nonetheless, the colony became consumed by the Pequot War. With the outbreak of the English Civil War, Saybrook struggled to find a new purpose as the Puritan Lords sought to remake Old England and abandon their plans to voyage to New England.
2023-08-2551 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastRhode Island Versus Providence Plantations: Shawomet, Portsmouth, Newport and Providence (1643-1663)In the final episode of our Rhode Island trilogy, Roger Williams seeks a unified colony known as "Providence Plantations in the Narragansett Bay," while William Coddington tries to merge Rhode Island with Massachusetts and later set the Island apart from mainland Providence.
2023-08-1125 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastAnne Hutchinson and Portsmouth (1638-1643)Anne Hutchinson and her allies form a powerful faction in the politics of the early Massachusetts Bay Colony, challenging the old guard. Anne and her Brother-In-Law Reverend John Wheelwright, elevate the conflict into the spiritual realm condemning most of the colonies' clergy to damnation for teaching a "covenant of works." In secret her supporters draft, what we now call, the Portsmouth Compact and plan to settle their own colony with permission from the Narragansett and without any authorization from the King.
2023-08-0353 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastRoger Williams and Providence (1636-1644)Roger Williams, ill and alone, wanders the winter wilderness of New England until finding Ousamequin of the Wampanoag who offers him shelter. Exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony Williams plans to make the most radical settlement in the New World.
2023-07-1849 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastJohn Wheelwright and Exeter (1638-1643)John Wheelwright leads an Exodus of his flock from Lincolnshire to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, only to then condemn the colony and accuse their clergy of being Anti-Antichrists. Banished, he must now search for a new place to settle during the cold winter of 1637.
2023-07-1439 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe Provinces of Maine and Lygonia (1639-58)The English Civil War manifests itself in New England where Royalist Maine is reduced by the creation of Parliamentarian Lygonia, both of which will have to stave off the northern advance of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. A three way conflict for legitimacy in a chaotic world.
2023-07-0549 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe Province of Maine, New Somersetshire and the Plot to Destroy the Bay Colony (1622-1639)For most the history of Maine begins with the Missouri Compromise of 1820, however another Maine existed long before. This Maine would be split in two, one half becoming New Hampshire, the other becoming its' forgotten sister colony of New Somersetshire. All the while, the owners of these Colonies, and members of the Council for New England were bent on the destruction of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
2023-06-2857 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastMount Wollaston, Merrymount and the Lord of Misrule (1624-1630)Captain Wollaston creates a small settlement in New England, seemingly to use as a way-station and storage facility for Indentured Servants. Thomas Morton, one of his minor investors, had another plan in mind. Morton's neighbors in the Plymouth Colony will come to know him as, "The Lord of Misrule."
2023-05-1021 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNantasket, Cape Anne and Naumkeag Colonies: The Old Planters (1622-1628)Plymouth castaways, fishermen and farmers, find refuge to the North of the Plymouth Colony, creating small autonomous settlements along the coast. Unknowingly, their assistance to the Dorchester Company would redraw the maps for the Natives and the Old Planters as they laid the foundation for a "City upon a Hill."
2023-04-2921 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe Governor-General of New England: Robert Gorges at Wessagusset (1623-24)Plymouth and the scattered fishing camps to the north owe their tenuous legal existence in the English world to The Council for New England. Sir Ferdinando Gorges, President of the Council, has a grand vision for New England: of feudal estates, worked by sturdy pheasants, worshiping in proper Anglican fashion under a single governor. His Council for New England reserved the right to govern, as granted to them by King James, having only given the Plymouth settlers the right to settle and purchase land from the Natives. Now Gorges intended to install a proper government and the man for...
2023-04-1127 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastWeston's Wessagusset Colony (1622-1623)Thomas Weston, the man who financed the Separatists and legitimized their settlement at Plymouth, plans a colony of his own. Without the distractions of family units and religious fanaticism, Weston hopes his colony will return greater profits than the fledging Pilgrims were providing. Success will depend on forging a trade relationship with the Native Massachusetts Tribe, and is counting on the riff-raff he hires off the streets of London to settle his colony. What could go wrong? In the meantime, Weston himself runs afoul with the law, has dealings with Turkish pirates, assumes a new identity, and is captured...
2023-03-1536 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe Wampanoag II: Ousamequin's World (1602-1624)Ousamequin, Paramount Chief of the Wampanoag, leads his people through a period of near desolation, only to live to see the enemy Narragansett threaten to absorb the remainder of his once great confederacy. In 1621 he decides to make allies with strange bedfellows in a gambit to take back control of his world.
2023-02-2655 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastAfter Popham: The Plymouth Company and the invention of New England (1608-1620)The Popham Colony is abandoned and now the Virginia Company of Plymouth is without a settlement to defend their claims. During this shadowy period of time the English still maintain a presence in Northern Virginia, as they call it, soon to be reimagined as New England by an unsuspecting character you may know from Jamestown fame. Unknowingly, the groundwork is laid by Sir Ferdinando Gorges for a a strange group of Separatists who recently returned from the Netherlands.
2023-02-0544 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe Popham ColonyThe Popham Colony or Sagadahoc Colony, rather than a historical footnote, was the vanguard of a new colonization model for the English, the result of rights stripped from noble conspirators, and redistributed to new corporate entities. After years of sailors kidnapping natives off the coast of modern day Maine to train as interpreters, Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Sir John Popham return them hoping the fair treatment given to their captives, will foster good will with their native communities. The Popham Colony, undertaken by the Virginia Company of Plymouth, initially seems a more promising prospect, to the Jamestown Colony, undertaken...
2023-01-231h 00
The History of the AmericansInterview: Eric Yanis of the Other States of America History Podcast
This is our one hundredth episode, at least by some counts, and also our first interview. Eric Yanis, the creator and host of The Other States of America History Podcast, agreed to be our first interviewee. We chatted about a wide range of subjects, including:
How the pandemic motivated both of us to start our podcasts;
Eric on teaching middle schoolers in New York during the pandmic;
The different ways in which we put together our episodes;
The rapidly declining interest in history among college undergraduates and some of its causes, including the de-emphasis of history...
2022-12-231h 16
The Other States of America: History PodcastGosnold's Colony (1602)18 years before the Mayflower carried its' famous passengers, Bartholomew Gosnold plans to start a small fishing colony on a small island off the coast of Southern New England. Little known to history, Gosnold's colony surprisingly had a lasting impact on the place names of New England and the foundation of a later colony you may have heard of...
2022-12-2025 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe Wampanoag I: Before New EnglandWho were the Wampanoag in the period immediately preceding contact with Europeans? How did they view themselves and the world around them? In this episode Eric reconstructs the Wampanoag in the time before the Thanksgiving story, Tisquantum, or Plymouth.
2022-12-1448 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastSeason III: The Other English NorthThis season will cover the many forgotten English colonies that became the Middle and New England Colonies we all know and love so well. Rather than serve as missteps and side stories, these ventures shaped the borders, nature and circumstances of the Colonies that would one day declare their independence, beginning yet another state of America. A few topics covered this season: The Wampanoag, The United Colonies of New England, Lygonia, West New Jersey and many more.
2022-11-1606 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastSeason II: End NotesIn this episode Eric rambles on about the season, people who reached out and the sources used to put together season two.
2022-06-3036 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew France: The End of an Era (1647-1663)The people of New France witness the utter desolation of many of their Native allies, only to find themselves living under the constant siege of the Haudenosaunee. Desperate pleas to New England to start a Holy War against the Iroquois fall on deaf ears as the English leave the French to fend for themselves. Martyrs and Heroines are made, visions and signs of the end times abound.
Image credit: By Unknown - http://www.cmhg.gc.ca/cmh/fr/image_57.asp?page_id=42, PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?cu...
2022-06-2033 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew France: The Return of the Iroquois (1635-1646)Champlain is dead, but the order he put in place holds New France together. However, the Haudenosaunee have returned armed with guns and determined dominate the fur trade along the St. Lawrence. Montreal is settled by a secret society and a mutilated missionary seeks Martyrdom among the Mohawks...
2022-06-1331 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew France: The Huron Confederacy and The Jesuits (1634-1650)In the 17th Century, the mighty Huron Confederacy, or Wendat Confederacy consisted of several Iroquoian speaking nations who held a monopoly on the fur trade from all points North and West headed to New France. Both the French and the Wendat became economically dependent on one another and the acceptance of Jesuit missionaries into the lands of the Confederacy in the 1630's a French precondition to keep the Fur flowing. Despite their best intentions the Jesuits cause a rift among the Wendat and and the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) seeks to assimilate the Wendat, take over their territory and monopolize...
2022-05-2557 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew France: Nova Scotia and the Acadian Civil War (1615-1670)The French, for the third time are determined to rebuild Acadia. However, competing titles split Acadia into two, run by rival claimants with powerful wives. Fate seemingly switching favor from one man to another, the outcome of the war is wholly unexpected.
2022-05-0838 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew France: Acadia Resettled Port Royal and Saint Sauveur (1610-1614)Baron Poutrincourt returns to Acadia to find the great Mi'kmaq Chief Membertou, true to his word, preserved Port Royal for the French. Now he and his son Biencourt, without Champlain, de Mons, or Pont-Grave seek to rebuild Acadia all on their own. However, funded by a headstrong Noblewoman, the Jesuits mean to take Acadia for themselves and a rival settlement on Mount Desert Island (in present day Maine) splits Acadia in two. Both factions are in for a surprise from Virginia, and here a now the epic colonial wars between England and France begins.
2022-05-0130 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew France: Champlain Restored (1630-1635)After 30 years of hard work in the New World Champlain finds himself a prisoner, his colony destroyed, his friends turned to enemies and his family torn apart. For most, this would be the end of the story, but Champlain had one more chapter left to be written.
Photo Credit: By Cephas - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6984208
2022-04-1441 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew France: Champlain the Statesman and the Anglo-French War (1619-1629)Samuel de Champlain's days of exploration were over, he had built up New France along the St.Lawrence into a profitable enterprise requiring constant management. Helene, his reluctant wife, joins him in Quebec and the colony begins to take on the character of French society, rather than a frontier outpost. Champlain's successes make New France a lucrative target to his personal enemies and the adversaries of the French Empire. All will be lost, but not for long.
2022-04-0243 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew France: Champlain Digs In (1610-1619)Founding Quebec will be easier than keeping it. Champlain spends the decade crossing the Atlantic over and over again, in an effort to keep the financing of New France afloat. Champlain enters into an unsavory marriage, chases rumors of the lost Henry Hudson and invades Onondaga the center of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.
2022-03-0758 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew France: Champlain Settles Quebec (1608-1610)In our continuing story of Samuel de Champlain, Quebec is finally settled, but keeping control of the trade along the St. Lawrence will require overcoming constant obstacles. The Natives convince Champlain to war with the Iroquois and a conspiracy in Quebec requires Champlain to lay down the law.
2022-02-1641 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew France: Champlain, Saint Croix and Port Royal Acadia (1604-1607)Champlain participates in founding Saint Croix, located in the modern day State of Maine, visits Patuxet the Wampanoag Village and future site of Plymouth and maps the coast of Southern Acadia a decade before it became know as New England. At Port Royal the 100 year old Mi'kmaq Chief Membertou meets the French in his own sail boat and claims to have known Jacques Cartier some seven decades ago.
2022-02-0138 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew France: Samuel de Champlain finds his way to the St. Lawrence (c.1570-1603)Champlain sailed the seas, fought in wars, befriended a king, worked as a spy, visited New Spain, envisioned a canal across Panama and became ridiculously wealthy, before ever setting foot in New France.
2022-01-1333 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew France: The Innu Monopoly, Tadoussac and Sable Island (1544-1603)After the failed colony of Roberval the sailors of St. Malo and elsewhere continued a clandestine trade with the Natives. The St. Lawrence Iroquois mysteriously disappeared and the Innu at Tadoussac create a monopoly on the furs coming from the interior of the continent. France, enveloped in civil wars has few resources to settle their claim to the region, but when the price of fur skyrockets a few brave souls, and a few unwilling prisoners give it try...
2022-01-0134 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastFrench Florida III: The War for Florida (1565-1568)The famished colonists of Fort Caroline were preparing to abandon the colony and return to France, when ships were spotted...
War is coming, but in the end from whom? Will the Civil Wars of France spill over into French Florida? Will a Timucuan Chiefdom turn on the French? Will the Spanish or English invade? The Huguenots of Fort Caroline are about to play their part in shaping American History in unexpected ways.
2021-12-1940 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastFrench Florida II: The Huguenots and Fort CarolineAfter the 1st expedition to Florida ended in mutiny, murder and cannibalism, the Huguenots suffer through the first French Civil War of Religion. The prospects of Florida proved tempting to both the religious refugee and the opportunist alike. However, their settlement, Fort Caroline is built in the Land of the Timucua a people divided into dozens of warring chiefdoms, and the seas crawling with Spanish war ships, who consider Florida their domain.
2021-10-161h 03
The Other States of America: History PodcastFrench Florida I: The Huguenots and Charlesfort1562, The Huguenots sensing the coming wave of violence against their sect, look for opportunities on the fringes of the Empire. Spanish Florida, boarding the French claim to parts north remained Native and had not one loyal Spanish subject, perhaps it could become part of New France? What's the worse that could happen...
2021-09-0335 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew France: Jacques Cartier 3rd Voyage and Roberval's Colony (1541-1543)After five years of war and waiting Cartier is given a commission to plant a colony in the New World, only to be usurped by nobleman named Roberval; a dreaded Huguenot. Both men would search for the mystical Kingdom of Saguenay, The Natives finally attack, a woman is abandoned on an island full of polar bears. The French build their first settlement in North America decades before St. Augustine, Jamestown and Plymouth.
2021-07-1341 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew France: Jacques Cartier 1st and 2nd Voyages (1534-36)In a time when Spain and Portugal laid claim to the entire non-Christian world, Jacques Cartier plunged himself into the realm of the St. Lawrence Iroquois. Searching for a westward passage he meets the mighty Chief Donnacona, and lies from both men spur a tale of abduction, scurvy, a winter spent frozen in ice, river going monsters, and the rumor of a Golden Kingdom.
I know i pronounce every name in this episode differently moment to moment, don't give me sass.
2021-07-0856 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastBefore New France: Explorations of the North Atlantic At the turn of the 16th Century, there existed no indication that France would come to dominate North America. The Portuguese, due to an error in mapping Newfoundland, seemed destined to master the North Atlantic, the Spanish dominated all points south until Brazil. The English staked their claim early and yet New France came to label much of North America. Where did this begin, and between the Norse and nameless hordes of fishermen, did it all start with Columbus, or was he a symptom of the time? Where is the lost colony of Fagundes, what happened to John Cabot o...
2021-06-0852 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastBefore New France: Natives of the St.Lawrence - Iroquois, Innu, Mi'kmaq and a Beothuk WarningNew France only ever functioned because of the Native population. France designed New France to accommodate the Natives in order to obtain furs and keep out other colonial powers. In this episode we learn about the natives of the Saint Lawrence as they can be best represented before European contact. Focusing on the St.Lawrence Iroquois, The Innu, the Mi'kmaq and the lonely Beothuk located on Newfoundland beyond who will serve as a cautionary tale to the rest of the Natives of the Americas. Google Matshikapeau at your own risk!
2021-04-301h 31The Other States of America: History PodcastSeason Two: Introducing New FranceIn this very short introduction to Season Two the case is made for New France to be our next Other State of America.
2021-04-1006 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastSeason One EndnotesIn this episode we hear form those you who left reviews and messages to be read on the podcast. Then we move into an informal discussion of the sources that went into making this season, many of the Iroquois sources will be discussed in the endnotes of future seasons. Many thanks to everyone who listened to season one!
2021-02-0854 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastIroquois Confederacy VI: The Alleged Beaver Wars Part II (1650-1664)The Beaver Wars continue to rage on, punctuated by pandemics and waves of assimilated captives. The tribes around the Iroquois acquire guns and cannons, and the French now aim to annihilate the Five Nations. Internal conflicts arise over trade and religion, and a time will come when two nations of the Confederacy will face one another in battle.
2021-01-091h 07
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland XVI: The Legacy of New NetherlandWhat is left of New Netherland today? A more important question to ask is how did New Netherland help create today. In this episode we look at the immediate aftermath of the English take over, the birth of the middle colonies and then go down a couple existential rabbit holes. Santa Claus, cookies, Yankee Doodle; New Netherland is the secret ingredient in the American Melting Pot.
2021-01-0248 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland XV: The English Tsunami (1660-1664)In the past rival claims to New Netherland were laughable, the Dutch had control over the Hudson (North), the Delaware (South) and and the Connecticut (Fresh) river. Then New Sweden stole the Delaware, and the English took the Connecticut. Peter Stuyvesant destroyed New Sweden with the largest professional army ever assembled in that part of the world up until that point. Stuyvesant also negotiated a treaty establishing a border with the New England colonies, only giving up on paper what he already had no plans to recover. New Netherland was now stable and the population exploding under Stuyvesant, in...
2020-12-1241 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland XIV: Swaanendael - Utopia on the DelawareSwaanendael (or Zwaanendael) The Beautiful "Valley of the Swans" in modern day Lewes Delaware is the setting of many past horrors and one attempt at Utopia.
2020-11-1333 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland XIII: Culture Series - ReligionThe last rant in our Culture Series. In this episode we cover the official policies regarding religion in the colony, level of religiosity, feeble attempt to convert natives, Anarchist Punk Quakers, the Jewish People, Mennonites, Calvinists, Lutherans, and ransomed Catholic Priests.
2020-11-061h 17
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland XII: Culture Series – Everyday LifeThis episode is a rambling potpourri of details, filling in the cultural landscape of New Netherland that might otherwise go unnoticed in other story driven installments of this podcast. Only for the diehard listener, we cover: languages, gender roles, everyday life, native relations, childhood and education, slavery and the African American experience.
2020-10-261h 06
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland XI: Culture Series - GovernmentWhy is it only now that we are doing an overview of culture in New Netherland? The evolution of government, local government, and courts in New Netherland. It's not as dry as it sounds... there is genital mutilation, shot gun weddings and spies contained within. The Culture Series episodes are intended to fill in the small details that some may find interesting, you may skip the culture series episodes without missing out on the larger story.
2020-10-1841 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland X: Expansion of Upstate, Esopus Wars and SchenectadyWhere is the line between Upstate and Downstate NY? Did the Dutch already determine the divide centuries ago? As the Northern part of New Netherland expands out of Rensselaerswyck and Beverwyck, the settlers who went south encountered an isolated tribe and xenophobia on both sides led to the Esopus Wars, a four year long series of blood feuds. The Settlers who went North-West and found Schenectady had relations of a very different kind with the friendly Mohawks.
2020-10-081h 13
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Sweden III: Rising Arrives, Stuyvesant Invades, The Peach Tree War (1653-1655)Johan Rising takes the Dutch Fort Casimir on the Delaware, Stuyvesant prepares the largest invasion force ever seen on the Atlantic coast up to this point in history to retaliate, the Dutch West India Companies orders the complete assimilation of New Sweden. Is this it for the colony?
2020-09-1859 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland IX: Stuyvesant and the First-Anglo Dutch War (1647-1655)Stuyvesant tries to rebuild New Netherland from the rubble left by Kieft, he creates Beverwyck which will one day become Albany NY, The Swedes take over a Fort and the English Plan the invasion to end New Netherland entirely...
2020-09-0741 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Sweden II: Johan Printz the Biggest Man in AmericaNew Sweden is unsteady after the disappearance of Minuit, however its' leaders are able to sweet talk and manipulate Willem Kieft, leader of New Netherland. Johan Printz becomes governor of New Sweden and perhaps the largest man in the Americas, but then Peter Stuyvesant takes commad of New Netherland and the two of them play a long game of Geo-Politcal Chicken over the Delaware river.
C.A. Weslager is the preeminent source of information for this podcast episode and every podcast episode on New Sweden
2020-08-2856 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland VIII: Willem Kieft, Kieft's War and Desolation (1638-1647)Policies change within the Dutch West India Company and Willem Kieft as the new director brings bloodshed to the colony and a dozen nearby tribes, those in Kieft's War, as it will be known, see the worse atrocities ever committed in the colony.
One Addition: Kieft in a addition to dissolving the council of 12, also formed the governing body, which i neglected to mention in the podcast
2020-08-2151 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Sweden I: Revenge of Peter Minuit (1638)What does Peter Minuit, the former leader of the New Netherland Colony have to do with the founding of New Sweden? Who were the Swedes and who were the Finns of the 17th Century? New Sweden claimed territory in Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland and yet only show up in your textbook as a footnote.
2020-08-1250 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastIroquois Confederacy V: The Alleged Beaver Wars Part IThe Iroquois League after a period of constant low level warring over blood feuds, trade and territory, break out with a string of runaway victories and utterly annihilate the political order of the Great Lakes Region. Was it all over beaver fur?
2020-07-241h 17
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland VII: Wouter Van Twiller Nepotism and Alcohol (1633-1638)Let one investor's alcoholic nephew run the whole colony, what could go wrong? The Natives acquire guns, the colony loses the eastern quarter of it's territory, and almost loses the entire Southern Portion. Booze becomes a means of bribery, drinking contests escalate to indoor canon fire.
2020-06-1924 minThe Other States of America: History PodcastInto Mohawk Country By Harmen Van Den Bogaert (New Netherland, Iroquois Confederacy Crossover Episode)in 1634 a young man leaves Fort Orange to explore the Mohawk and Oneida Nations, his account is the earliest written record from within the world of the Haudenosaunee. He tries to buy a pet bear, is tasked with driving out the devil and yet at the end he is the strangest character of all.
2020-06-011h 10
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland VI: Van Rensselaer, Patroonships and Minuit gets Canned 1628-1631In this episode we discuss the foundation of the Van Rensselaer Patroonship, Renssalaerwyck, which the family ran like a fiefdom until the 19th century in Upstate NY. We also discuss the circumstances in which Minuit is let go of his position, but he will be revenge, we promise!
2020-05-2129 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland V: Minuit "buys" Manhattan and Makes a Treaty with the IroquoisIn this episode we see Peter Minuit promote himself to Director and save the fledgling colony of New Netherland. The purchase of Manhattan is made, at least the Dutch are made to believe so, most of the colony is relocated to the Island and a solid treaty is made with the Mohawk that will last until the end of New Netherland. Minuit truly saves the day...
2020-05-1538 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastIroquois Confederacy IV: Champlain's Retreat and the Mohawk-Mahican War 1610-1628In this episode where Eric mispronounces nearly everything, we cover the crucial period in Haudenosaunee history, when the Huron Confederacy dominated to the west, The French occasionally terrorized the Iroquois heartland, and having no Old World trading partners the Five Nations were on the retreat. However, the Iroquois with great foresight found ways to turn the tide of history in their favor.
2020-05-0832 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland IV: The Dutch West India Company 1621-1626In this episode we learn about the first European settlers to come to New Netherland, and surprise they aren't Dutch. We also learn about the Dutch West India Company, the Walloon people of modern day Belgium and argument over the nature of Native American land ownership, the episode ends in a state of absolute despair.
2020-04-3034 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland III: The Fur Trade and the New Netherland Company 1610-1623In this episode, Eric mostly rambles on about this mostly undocumented period in early New Netherland history and the fur trade. Troubles with the French, kidnappings, boat fires, Pilgrims and shifty dealing all around, this is the Wild West of period of the East Coast.
2020-04-2231 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland II: Henry Hudson and the North West PassageThe North West Passage is the El Dorado of North. Finding a new route to the orient proved to be the relentless pursuit of many, but for Henry Hudson it appeared to be everything. He willingly sailed straight north and attempted to go over the north pole in a boat. He knowingly sailed into the polar bear infested barren wastelands of Northern Russia and on his 3rd and 4th expeditions he sailed clear off of all known maps into the unknown.
* I mistakenly claim Verrazzano sailed for Spain when in fact it was France, my bad
2020-04-171h 02
The Other States of America: History PodcastNew Netherland I: Who were the Dutch?In this episode we step away from the Iroquois Confederacy for awhile and begin our exploration of the colony of New Netherland, allies of the Haudenosaunee. We must understand Old Netherland if we are to understand the new, and so this episode attempts to answer all of your questions about the Dutch and describe the Dutch world as it was during their Golden Age.
2020-04-1355 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe Iroquois Confederacy III: Politics and First ContactIn this episode we break down the intricacies of Haudenosaunee government as it may have been before the arrival of Europeans, the episode ends with the story of first contact given from the point of view of a young Mohawk warrior.
2020-04-1126 min
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe Iroquois Confederacy II: Culture (pre-contact)In this episode we drop you down into an Iroquois Village to live as one of the Haudenosaunee may have lived, before European contact.
2020-04-101h 01
The Other States of America: History PodcastThe Iroquois Confederacy I: OriginsThis episode begins with a little story time. Then we try to reach back into prehistory and discover how the Five Nations came together, and where they came from.
2020-04-0931 minThe Other States of America: History PodcastIntroduction and WarningThis podcast series will explore the often overlooked American stories, forgotten because they occurred under a different flag, in nations now part of the United States.
2020-04-0904 min