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902: Saturday Matinee: American History Tellers

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🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On today’s Saturday Matinee, we follow a group of Englishmen as they colonize the first permanent English settlement in mainland North America: Jamestown, Virginia.



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This weekend, I'm traveling to New York City for a long weekend slash mini vacation in the Big Apple.

1:15.7

It'll be my daughter's first trip there, so we're trying to do it right with not only as many slices of NYC pizza as possible,

1:22.8

but also a visit to the Statue of Liberty and a showing of Hamilton.

1:26.6

It's pretty easy to pack in a lot of fun history adventures when Manhattan has a history

1:31.4

dating back to 1609 Dutch explorers and the Lanopi and Wappinger people well before that.

1:37.8

And if you're interested in that history, the Dutch settlement of Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty,

1:42.6

or Alexander Hamilton's feuding with Aaron Byr,

1:45.4

boy, do I have the podcast for you. One of my other shows, American History Tellers, has whole

1:51.8

seasons on these topics. But today, we're bringing you an episode from American History Tellers

1:57.3

that tells the tale of a settlement even older than Dutch Manhattan,

2:08.5

Jonestown, Virginia. In May 1607, a group of Englishmen planted a wooden cross in the ground near the Falls River they christened the James in honor of their king, James I. They

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