New York, Quebec, and The Water Route to the Center of the World

Discover the history of French settlement of Acadia and British attempts to cleanse Acadia of it’s French inhabitants during the French and Indian War. We’ll also discuss the fall of the Fortress of Louisbourg in 1758 and examine the historiography of Le Grand Derangement. Book Recommendations: “A Great and Noble Scheme” by John Mack Faragher & “The Capture of Louisbourg” by Hugh Boscawen.

Robert Rodgers Rangers were the first true “Special forces” developed institutionally in North America. Created to counter the French “Coureur de Bois”and their “Le Guerre Sauvage,” The Rangers fought in all the major campaigns on the borders of New York and Québec during the French and Indian War. Book Recommendations: “White Devil” by Stephen Brumwell & “War on the Run” by John F. Ross.

Discover the unique role that Ticonderoga plays in the historical development of New York and Quebec, from Samuel Champlain to General Burgoyne, Part One will cover 1609-1759. Book Recommendations: “Colonial Forts of the Champlain and Hudson Valleys” by Michael Laramie.

Discover the Podcast narrative’s wider cultural connections of the French Atlantic basin, through the exploration of some scary folkloric tales of Louisiana, Haiti, and St. Lucia! Book Recommendations: “The Things that Fly in the Night” by Giselle Lizza Anatol.

Join me in the second episode of my Caribbean Connections series, where we examine the greater connections to the Atlantic Basin. Discover the Dutch colony of Berbice and the story of one of the largest slave revolts to rock the Caribbean prior to the Haitian Revolution. Book Recommendations: “Blood on the River” by Marjoleine Kars.

We’ll follow the Dutch Merchant class transformation to landed gentry supportive of British rule and the societal impact of the Manorial system in Pre-Revolutionary New York. Book Recommendations: “The Women of the House” by Jean Zimmerman & “Bound by Bondage” by Nicole Maskiell.

My thoughts on the developing French-Canadien identity after British Conquest. Book Recommendations: “Nobility Lost” by Christian Ayne Crouch & “French Connections: Cultural Mobility in North America and The Atlantic World” by Robert Englebert & Andrew N. Wegmann.

Enjoy a short tale of how New Netherland’s famous “peg-legged” last Governor-General lost his limb and how this episode gives us a peek into the Trans-Atlantic wide empire of the Dutch. Book recommendations: “The Dutch Moment” by Wim Klooster & “Heaven’s Wrath” by D. L. Noorlander.

I wanted to introduce some local battles of the Revolutionary War fought here in the Hudson valley and integrate them into the larger flow of the general wartime narrative.

Join me as we explore the society and culture of New France. Our journey will also examine the impact of the "War of Conquest" on the Habitants of New France. Book recommendations “The People of New France” by Alan Greer & “Champlain’s Dream” by David Hackett Fischer.

Come discover the rise of European power dynamics and the deftly balanced Iroquois response, as the League navigated the rapidly developing geopolitical situation found throughout New York. This episode will cover the years of 1666-1754, as both dates bookend important transitional moments in the history of the Haudenosaunee peoples. Book Recommendations: “The Ordeal of The People of the Longhouse...

Enjoy some pictures from my recent visit to Sir William Johnson’s fortified syncretic salon on the frontier of New York and Quebec.

Get a feel for the layout and landscape of the award winning movie and central focus of my podcast!

Experience a glimpse of the majestic Hudson River as the famous explorer would have viewed it!

Discover the geographic spaces of slavery and encounter the true faces of perseverance, as I discuss enslavement in both New France and New Netherland. Book Recommendations: “Bonds of Alliance” by Brett Rushforth, “Spaces of Enslavement” by Andrea Mosterman, “The New York City Slave Revolt of 1712” by Ben Hughes and “New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth Century Manhattan...

Join international best selling author and Historian Dr. Stephen Brumwell, as we discuss the blended nature of life on the frontiers of New York and Quebec. Using Dr. Brumwell's wonderful body of works, join us on a journey navigating both the French and Indian War and The American Revolution. 

The British finish off French forces in the west by seizing Fort Niagara and take control over the Great Lakes (1759) Book Recommendations: “Siege 1759” by Brian Leigh Dunnigan

The British capture of Fort Frontenac in 1758 and open the way to Montreal. We will also dive deep into the background of William Johnson and learn of his rise to prominence on the frontier. Book Recommendations: “Mohawk Baronet” by James Thomas Flexner & “Bateaux and Whaleboats” by Ian Macpherson McCullogh

While most Americans are familiar with the Salem Witch Trials, the possession of Barbe Hallay of New France is little known in the English speaking world. Join me as we examine a dark story of evil and redemption, thirty years before the events of Salem took place. Book Recommendations: “The Possession of Barbe Halley” by Mari Cowan

Enjoy my three different and very strange experiences at Fort William Henry in Lake George.

Join me for a tale of Canadien Were-wolves, as we examine the Loup-garou attacks of Quebec in 1757.

The French press British supply lines in the Mohawk Valley and move to seize Fort Oswego. Book Recommendations: “Montcalm’s Crushing Blow” by Rene Chartrand

The British mass the largest army ever assembled in North America to attack an ill-equipped French Garrison at Fort Carillon on July 8th, 1758. In a major blunder, the British forces suffer the worst single day loss of men in North America, until the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Book Recommendations: “Montcalm and Wolfe” by Francis Parkman

A narrative history podcast covering the history of the epic conflict for control over the important wateways between New York and Quebec from 1754-1815. The Podcast will cover three major conflicts including the French & Indian War, The American Revolution, and the War of 1812. The podcast focuses on the geographic triangle stretching from the St. Lawrence to Lake Onatario and down to New York Ha...