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Rejects & Revolutionaries (American History Podcast)

Aug 7, 2019

A quick episode back in England, discussing the polarizing experience of war, which drove thousands of new immigrants to the colonies, and also created a seriously different mindset between new colonists and old ones.  


Jul 24, 2019

The biggest threat yet to Massachusetts Bay autonomy also provoked some of its most ruthless political suppression.  But, the colony wins, the deputies and magistrates unite, a new synod of New England Churches is planned, and if anything, the region's status quo is strengthened.  Plus, Plymouth's Edward Winslow goes...


Jul 17, 2019

When Parliament allows Samuel Gorton to appeal decisions made by the Massachusetts General Court, a small group of disgruntled New Englanders gets together to push for reform in Massachusetts, in a way which threatens the autonomy the colony has always valued so much.  


Jun 19, 2019

Bermuda Presbyterians beg for an anti-Congregationalist governor, and when they get him, retaliation pushes Congregationalists to England, where they become a focal point of the debate between Presbyterians and Independents.  

Barbados maintains its neutrality, despite repeated attempts by Parliament to push it to...


Jun 7, 2019

Berkeley returns from England to find the Powhatan War mismanaged.  Calvert returns from Virginia to reinstate Maryland's Proprietary government.  But ... the last remaining Royalist port, Bristol, falls, an event which spells trouble for all American colonies, not just Royalist ones.  Also, Opechancanough is...