Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 16.  This episode is called “Sidebar: Bringing it all Together.” In the History of the Americans podcast, a sidebar is an episode outside of the progression of the timeline, which at this writing has reached roughly 1536.  The purpose of this sidebar is to talk a bit about the show to date, and put the first thirty years of European exploration and conquest of the territory that is now the United States in context.  In other words, bringing it all together!

Reference for this episode

Alan Taylor, American Colonies: The Settling of North America