Virginia History Podcast

In which I interview Graham Woodlief concerning the upcoming 400th Anniversary of the First Thanksgiving in Virginia.

In which I interview Fort Monroe's superintendent Terry Brown.

In which I interview the Shades of Our Past re-enactors about Grace Sherwood - The Witch of Pungo.

In which the influence of Samuel Mathews, Sr. and William Claiborne is detailed more closely. Special attention is given to showing how their influence paved the way for Sir William Berkeley's timely arrival.

In which Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation's Nancy Egloff and I discuss the foundation of Virginia's House of Burgesses.

In which Sir John Harvey becomes Virginia's Governor, fights with his Council, especially the Mathews-Claiborne faction, and loses his wealth and position is recounted.

In which Virginia begins life as a Royal Colony during the 1620s.

In which the Library of Virginia's Sandra Gioia Treadway tells us about 5 remarkable women - Cockacoeske, Anna Maria Lane, Elizabeth Van Lew, Caroline Putnam, and Mary Jackson, and how they impacted Virginia and beyond.

In which the fallout from Opechancanough's 1622 Massacre reaches England and brings the Virginia Company to her death.

In which I interview Historic Jamestowne's Dr. James Horn.

In which I interview Robert Russa Moton Museum Education Director Cainan Townsend for American Evolution: Virginia to America 1619-2019. Cainan discusses how a group of African-American high school students led a 1951 protest which had a major influence on Brown vs. Board of Education and the Civil Rights movement that soon followed.

In which the events leading up to and of the infamous 1622 Opechancanough led massacre are narrated.

In which the disastrous political situation surrounding the Virginia Company of London and is brought to her demise is recounted.

In which the New World's first representative government, the House of Burgesses, is outlined.

In which the arrival of Virginia's first women and Africans is detailed.

In which the details of the First Thanksgiving, which took place in 1619 Virginia, is narrated.

In which the continued growth along the James River is outlined detailing the first ironworks, the first representative government, the first Thanksgiving, and other changes stemming from the newest plantations being founded in Virginia.

In which L.B. Taylor's Essay about Shirley Plantation's Haunted Aunt Pratt is read for this Halloween Special Podcast.

In which the Company realizes that they have no other choice but to offer land to investors, and that land is transformed into vibrant plantations.

In which details concerning Henricus being further fortified and Thomas Dale's shifting power up the James River in order to establish a series of plantations along the James River is recounted.