Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 103.

I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and I'm recording this episode on January 22nd, 2023, in Austin, Texas.

On the small chance, you are new to the podcast.

We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States

from the beginning without presentism.

Or at least we're doing our best.

In fairness, we should probably say with as little presentism as possible,

but that seems too wishy-washy for branding

purposes. So every now and then I completely blow the pronunciation of even English names,

which is admittedly fairly lame. Phil from Pennsylvania sent me a note that I have

incorrectly been pronouncing William

Laude as loud rather than laud. This was especially egregious on my part insofar as the

archbishop's name is spelled Laud, as in laudable. I'll try to do better. On a more positive note, Phil also pointed out that

David Crowther's History of England podcast is for the moment running almost parallel to this one,

looking at the reign of Charles I, the confrontation with Parliament, and so forth.

Of course, that story to podcast is concerned with

England, and this one is concerned with the Americans, so we emphasize different aspects of the

story. I'll put a link in the show notes on the website to a couple of the relevant episodes,

if you want to have a listen. We have arrived at the great migration of the Puritans to Massachusetts, which effectively

began in 1628 and would continue until 1640 or so, and then abruptly end.

The result would be that for almost 200 years, the non-indigenous population of New England

would consist almost entirely of the descendants of a group of religious refugees shaped

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