#44 Set Fair for Roanoke Part 4
The History of the Americans
Jack Henneman
4.9 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This episode looks at the fate of the 15 settlers Sir Richard Grenville had left on Roanoke Island in 1586, and the expedition of 1587, which Sir Walter Ralegh, John White, and more or less everybody else intended to land at Chesapeake Bay. They never got there, and after August 26, 1587, no English person would ever see them again. Oh, and we meet Virginia Dare!
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Selected references for this episode
James Horn, A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
David Beers Quinn, Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies, 1584-1606
Mary Queen of Scots (2018) execution scene
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast, Episode 44. |
| 0:09.0 | I am your host, Jack Heneman. |
| 0:12.0 | And this episode is Set Fair for Roanoke, Part 4. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm recording this on October 22nd, 2021, in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:22.8 | But I wrote the first part of the script earlier this week in Princeton, New Jersey, |
| 0:27.5 | which will figure prominently in the history of the Americans, |
| 0:31.4 | starting roughly 190 years down the timeline. |
| 0:35.6 | Not once, but many times. |
| 0:40.9 | Not only did George Washington win an important battle a short walk from here in early 1777, but the Continental Congress sat in |
| 0:49.1 | session in Princeton University's NASA Hall, then the largest stone building in the United States, for a good part of |
| 0:57.7 | 1783. It was in NASA Hall that the Continental Congress received the news that Great Britain |
| 1:05.5 | and the United States had agreed to end the war. If you are new to the podcast, we are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the |
| 1:15.9 | United States from the beginning without presentism. |
| 1:20.7 | We believe there is dignity in our national story, along with tragedy, triumph, brilliance, hypocrisy, magnificence, |
| 1:30.4 | depravity, corruption, venality, genius, defeat, and glory. Mostly, though, we are here |
| 1:40.3 | to have some fun. We hope you enjoy listening to the history of the Americans as much as we |
| 1:46.1 | enjoy making it, and that you tell all your friends, spread the word on your social propaganda |
| 1:52.7 | website of choice, write us a nice review on Apple or wherever you like to write reviews and subscribe in your favorite podcast app. |
| 2:04.4 | This is a labor of love. And your support is very motivating. I do have one exciting announcement. |
| 2:13.6 | One of my daughters is a budding graphic design professional and I commissioned her to design the first History of the Americans podcast merch, which is available through a little online store you can get to through the website. |
| 2:28.2 | Right now, there is one design, and it goes on T-shirts and sweatshirts and such, and you will instantly get the joke. |
| 2:35.5 | The website is the History of theAmericans.com, and once there, if you click on the about tab at the top, |
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