Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 146.

I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and I'm recording this on No Foolin, April 1st,

2024 in Austin, Texas.

We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States from the beginning without intentional presentism. It's been longer than I

prefer since the last episode, and I very much appreciate your patience. I've had a very busy

stretch in the struggle for the legal tender, but the delay is

mostly because my muse decided I should do an overview of the English Civil Wars and

the Commonwealth before continuing through the 1650s and 1660s.

The civil wars have come up a few times, such as in our episode on Opa Cancanaugh's last stand,

Opa Chanquina and the series on The Plundering Time.

But I read up on New Haven and Maryland, and I realized that I needed to learn more about the

period in English history between roughly 1640 and the Stuart Restoration in 1660.

And so here we are. It must be said up front that British listeners will no doubt find this

overview tediously shallow and rife with rank generalizations and even error.

Guilty is charged.

The American analogy would be to cover the years between the run-up to our own civil war and the reconstruction of the South in one podcast episode.

But this is the history of the Americans,

so this overview, however, shallow, will have to do for our purposes.

Those who want more can go check out David Crowther's History of England podcast, which is

going deep on the Civil Wars as I write these words. For the readers among you, I recommend

Jonathan Healy's recent book, The Blazing World, a new history of Revolutionary England,

which is a delight. A link in the show notes on the website, blah, blah, blah.

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