ERIC YANIS

The Other States of America: History Podcast

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American History is far more complicated than a yearlong High School class could ever teach you. This podcast will tell you the rest of that story, focusing on colonies you've never heard of, that may be at your front door, like New Netherland and New Sweden, New France, the Haudenosaunee and the lampooned "Articles of Confederation," that serve as footnotes in the history presented to you. Join Eric Yanis, a NYS Certified Social Studies and SWD teacher, as he guides you through the history left out of the textbook.

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ERIC YANIS

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History

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Jun 29, 2026

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Episodes

Season 4: The New Old South 17.10.2024

Season four of The Other States of America: History Podcast.

Vice President John Tyler: Our Vices #10 11.10.2024

The Vice Presidency of John Tyler. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.

Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson: Our Vices #9 10.10.2024

The Vice Presidency of Richard Mentor Johnson. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.

Vice President Martin Van Buren: Our Vices #8 09.10.2024

The Vice Presidency of Martin Van Buren. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.

Vice President John C. Calhoun: Our Vices #7 08.10.2024

The Vice Presidency of John C. Calhoun. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.

Vice President Daniel D. Tompkins: Our Vices #6 07.10.2024

The Vice Presidency of Daniel D. Tompkins. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.

Vice President Elbridge Gerry: Our Vices #5 04.10.2024

The Vice Presidency Elbridge Gerry. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.

Vice President George Clinton: Our Vices #4 04.10.2024

The Vice Presidency of George Clinton. Our Vices is the post season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.

Vice President Aaron Burr: Our Vices #3 02.10.2024

The Vice Presidency of Aaron Burr. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.

Vice President Thomas Jefferson: Our Vices #2 01.10.2024

The Vice Presidency of Thomas Jefferson. Our Vices is the post-season show of The Other States of America: History Podcast.

Vice President John Adams: Our Vices #1 01.10.2024

The Vice Presidency of John Adams. Our Vices is the post-season show of the Other States of America: History Podcast.

Season III: Endnotes and Post Season Show Our Vices 27.09.2024

The end of season three of the Other States of America: History Podcast. Endnotes appear in video as word limit will not allow everything to fit in this description. Thank you for listening! Eric Yanis

East and West Jersey Reunited (1689-1702) 18.09.2024

New Jersey, in its' short history after 1664, faced absorption by New York, a takeover by the Dutch, division into two colonies and absorption by the Dominion of New England. Having weathered a troubled beginning the two halves of New Jersey find cause to unite once again and create the colony that will become the state we all know and love.

Fall of the Dominion of New England (1688-1689) 15.09.2024

Sir Edmund Andros, Governor-General of the Dominion of New England, a super colonial entity containing what will one day be 6 of the original 13 colonies, faces the oncoming wave of the Glorious Revolution as it crosses the Atlantic breaks upon the American shore. The outcome will shape American History to our present time.

Rise of the Dominion of New England (1686-1688) 15.08.2024

With the era of isolation rapidly closing for the Puritan Colonies, King James II seeks to unifying New England (and beyond) into a massive super-colonial dominion, governed by Sir Edmund Andros without an assembly, in defiance of the Magna Carta.

East New Jersey: Governing the Impossible (1674-1688) 02.08.2024

Governor Phillip Carteret running his cousin's colony of New Jersey faces the humiliation of having the colony taken by the Dutch, and then split into two once back in English hands. Now the Governor of the Colony of East New Jersey Carteret and his successors will have to battle the constant threat of being absorbed by New York, while dealing with a population always teetering on rebellion.

West New Jersey and the Quaker Exodus (1675-1688) 24.07.2024

The persecuted Quakers search for a refuge in the New World and manage to tear away half of the New Jersey Colony for themselves.

Fenwick's Colony and the Division of New Jersey (1674-1682) 12.07.2024

With New Jersey still in Dutch hands Lord Berkeley is convinced to sell his half-interest in the Colony to a man named John Fenwick, and in a quick turn of events the New Jersey Colony is split into three East New Jersey, West New Jersey and Fenwick's Colony, perhaps the most peculiar of them all.

New New Netherland: The Fall of New York and New Jersey (1673-74) 01.07.2024

With the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, the New York and New Jersey Colonies, rife with internal strife, are barely governable with wavering loyalties. An Admiral from Holland and an Admiral from Zeeland plot to restore the colony of New Netherland.

New Albion: Sir Edmund and the Knights of New Albion (1642-49) 24.04.2024

Sir Edmund Plowden (or Ployden) designs an American Colony for which he and his seventeen children will rule as lords over feudal estates, aided by the Knight of New Albion, intent on spreading Catholicism by the book or the sword. However, the territory granted to Sir Edmund by King Charles I overlaps that of New Netherland, New Sweden, an offshoot of the New Haven Colony and the Leni Lenape. Des...

The United Colonies of New England II: Confederation or Absorption (1644-1690) 17.04.2024

The four Puritan colonies of New England, after one successful decade of confederation, faces headwinds internally and externally as the Dutch, Natives, English authorities and their own settlers threaten to disrupt the Puritan Oligarchy.

The Wampanoag IV: King Phillip's War (1675-76) 03.04.2024

After 54 years of peace, the tension between the English and the Pokanoket leaders of the Wampanoag Paramount Chiefdom boil over into the one of the deadliest wars, per capita, in history.

The Wampanoag III: Wampanoag Antebellum (1625-1671) 20.02.2024

An often overlooked period in Wampanoag history is the period of time between the height of Ousamequin's power among the Wampanoag in 1624-25 and his son Metacomet's decision to attack the settlers at Swansea in 1675. However, this period is full of Native politics, suspected poisonings, fraudulent wills, a rumors of war.

Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Colonies (1642-1671) 28.01.2024

Looking to remove himself from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Thomas Mayhew purchases the right to settle and set up a government on islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket from the Earl of Stirling, and gradually purchases the land from the Wampanoag. Mayhew settles the Vineyard and later sells off Nantucket to a like minded group of friends and extended relations under Tristram Coffin. Bot...

John Scott: The President of Long Island (1664) 22.12.2023

An indentured servant boy with a questionable origin story, supposedly inherits a large piece of Long Island from a Native American leader, selling much of it each new buyer has a vested interest in John Scott's claim being legitimate. What follows is a story of conflict and takeover of the New Netherland Colony, treason against the Connecticut colony as its' Long island settlements pull a...

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