Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast, episode 67.

I am your host, Jack Heneman, and we are recording this very early in the morning on April 7, 2022 in Austin, Texas.

If 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.

Also, if you are new to the podcast, you might go listen to the revised introduction for new and longstanding listeners, which is pinned to the top of the website's homepage.

The website is the History of the Americans.com.

I still can't believe I got that URL.

As is often the case, music for the writing of this episode was provided by WWOZ in New Orleans,

which some say is America's greatest radio station.

This episode is about the first Anglo-Pauhattan War, a very ugly period that stretched

from just after John Smith's departure in the fall of

1609 to the marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas in the spring of 1614.

Before we get to all that harshness, though, I'm going to talk a little bit about beer.

Since doing this, I've gotten in the habit of looking at the date pages on

Wikipedia, which list all the historical stuff, birthdays, and deaths that happened on,

for example, April 7th of any year. Doing exactly that, I learned that today is National Beer Day, which seems like a handy

bit of information to know. This is not merely, or at least only, some made-up beer industry

marketing thing. National Beer Day recognizes an actual historical event, the effective date of the Cullen Harrison Act in 1933.

The Cullen Harrison Act was enacted in the waning months of prohibition, but before the ratification of

the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, which repealed the 18th Amendment, the amendment that had

banned the sale of intoxicating

liquors in the United States.

The 18th Amendment provided that the Congress and the several states shall have the concurrent

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