The history of the people who live in the United States, from the beginning.
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Tee It Up! with Keith Jones is an informative, insightful and cutting-edge hour-long nationally syndicated golf radio show, hosted by veteran sports broadcaster Keith Jones. Keith has been covering the game of golf regularly for more than 25 years and has covered many prestigious golf tournaments. Keith’s experience includes sports coverage for such networks as NBC, CBS, CBC and Mutual and now he brings his national broadcasting experience weekly to the golf world. Now in its 26th year, Tee ...
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11: Tee It Up with Keith Jones, Oct. 6
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On this week's show we welcome two sports legends, former PGA Tour money winner Bob Toski, and former LPGA commissioner Charlie Meacham.על ידי Keith Jones
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English Colonial Governance in a Nutshell: Charters, Proprietaries, and Royal Colonies
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This blessedly short episode encapsulates the types of English colonial government in the 17th and 18th centuries, which were chartered corporations, proprietary “counties palatine,” and royal colonies directly ruled by the Crown through a governor and advisors. Technically abstruse as these distinctions may have been, they would become increasingl…
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10: PGA professional Mike Malaska joins
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This week we are pleased to be joined by former PGA Teacher of the Year and top instructor Mike Malaska, as he breaks down and simplifies the game.על ידי Keith Jones
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Sidebar Interview: David Beito on the New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights
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David T. Beito’s most recent book, and the subject of this conversation, is The New Deal’s War On the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (buy it through the link!), published by the Independent Institute in 2023. The presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal have now large…
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9: Dr. Bob Winters joins for the hour
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Our mental guru Dr. Bob Winters checks in this week, as we discuss the means, and the ways to get the job done mentally.על ידי Keith Jones
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The Fall of New Amsterdam and the Founding of New York
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In August 1664, an English fleet acting under the orders of James, Duke of York, the brother of King Charles II, materialized off Manhattan and forced the bloodless surrender of New Amsterdam and New Netherland. It is easy – too easy – to conclude that this was inevitable because New England had roughly 17 times the population of New Netherland. It…
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8: The Legendary Bob Toski Joins for the Hour
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On this week's show Tee It Up!, regular contributor and multi-time Hall-of-Famer Bob Toski spends the hour with us. It's the run-up to the legend's 98th birthday celebration.על ידי Keith Jones
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Spanish Florida and the “Republic of Indians”
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While the English were consolidating their territory on most of the eastern seaboard of North America in the 1600s, Spanish Florida plugged along with its sole city at St. Augustine, with little European population growth. That simple fact obscures remarkable changes in the civil society of the future Sunshine State. From the 1570s, after the Jesui…
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This week we spend the hour with renowned golf instructor Jim McLean.על ידי Keith Jones
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Spanish Florida in the 1600s: Indian Wars, Yellow Fever, and Pirates!
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We are back to Spanish Florida after a long hiatus, with the story of St. Augustine, La Florida after the founding of the city and the slaughter of the Huguenots at Fort Caroline until the construction of the Castillo de San Marcos in the 1670s. The city would almost fail, and in 1607 the Spanish Crown ordered that it be shut down and that Spain wi…
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7: Flux Golf, 2UNDR, USG and more at the PGA Buying Summit
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On this week's show we take you to the LIV Tour and the PGA Buying Summit, as we get updates from Flux Golf's John Berquist and Jack Curry of 2UNDR & USG respectively.על ידי Keith Jones
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The Official Founding of North Carolina
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In March 1663, after 97 years of failed attempts by first the Spanish and then the English to establish settlements in North Carolina, King Charles II granted eight aristocrats a vast territory extending from the coast of today’s North and South Carolina to the Pacific Ocean. These eight Lords Proprietor – George, Duke of Albemarle; Edward, Earl of…
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5: Getting to know Golfusion with Kai Fusser and Dylan Ross
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This week we introduce you to Golfusion, and two of the company's masterminds PGA Professional Dylan Ross, and Biometrics Genius Kai Fusser.על ידי Keith Jones
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Multiple Hall of Famer, living legend and regular Tee It Up! contributor Bob Toski joins us this week. Bob has lived a long life and has so many stories to tell, and has a 98th birthday coming up next month.על ידי Keith Jones
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Sidebar: The Master of the Senate
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On July 29, 2024, President Joe Biden visited The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The President referred to LBJ as “master of the Senate,” which reminded me of the opening pages of Robert Caro’s book of the same name. That introduction is…
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In the early 1660s, a motley crew of free-thinkers, republican veterans of Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army, and Quakers would build the freest place in all the English world, the County of Albemarle in northeastern North Carolina. Protected from the north, and incursions by Virginia royalists, by the Great Dismal Swamp, from the east by the treach…
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4: Jack Curry of 2UNDR and Steve Henneman of Tec! Tec! Tec! talk PGA Summit
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This week, we check-in with Tee It Up! Industry Insider Jack Curry of 2UNDR, who's heading to the PGA Buying Summit at the end of the month, and we come up-to-date technology wise with Steve Henneman of Tec! Tec! Tec!.על ידי Keith Jones
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Early North Carolina, originally part of a territory called Carolana, is all but ignored in most surveys of American history. After a fast start – both the Spanish and the English had short-lived settlements there in the 16th century before anywhere north of the future Tar Heel State had been settled by Europeans – a long period of failure followed…
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4: Buying what the PGA Show's Marc Simon is selling
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On this week's show we spend the hour with the PGA Show's Head Honcho Marc Simon talking about the upcoming PGA Buying Summit in Frisco, and much more.על ידי Keith Jones
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3: Hall-of-Famer Bob Toski joins to break down the golf swing
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This week's show features the great American and Godfather of the golf swing, the legendary multi Hall-of-Famer Bob Toski.על ידי Keith Jones
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Late in the morning on June 7, 1663, soldiers of the Esopus Indians attacked the fortified Dutch settlements of New Village – now Hurley, New York – and Wildwyck, now Kingston. New Village was fundamentally destroyed. Wildwyck, more populous and better defended, fought off the attack but not before suffering grievous casualties. At New Village, thr…
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Sidebar: A Conversation with Amanda Bellows
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Amanda Bellows is a U.S. historian who teaches at The New School, a university in New York City. She is the author of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination, and a new book that is the subject of this interview, The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions. Amanda received her Ph.D. in History from t…
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2: Popticals CEO Gary DiSalvo and Duca Del Cosma's Ryan Leahey
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On this week's show we introduce you to Popticals CEO Gary DiSalvo, and come up-to-date with Ryan Leahey of Duca Del Cosma.על ידי Keith Jones
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Roll the rock with FLUX Golf founder John Berquist
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This week, we introduce you to John Berquist, Founder, CEO and Chief Creative Mind of FLUX Golf, the little putter company that's taking the game by technological design.על ידי Keith Jones
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1: Legendary instructor Bob Toski joins the show
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On this week's show, regular contributor and Hall of Famer Bob Toski joins to talk about the golf swing and improving your golf game!על ידי Keith Jones
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Just before dawn on September 15, 1655, the same day Pieter Stuyvesant would extract the surrender of New Sweden on the Delaware River, more than 500 Indians of various tribes from along the Hudson paddled more than sixty canoes to New Amsterdam in lower Manhattan. They ran through town shrieking and vandalizing, but neither Dutchman nor Indian was…
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Roger Williams Saves Rhode Island Again!
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For more than twenty years, the Puritan colonies of New England - Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven - would do their utmost to gain control of Rhode Island, Roger Williams's refuge committed to "soul liberty." They hated his nest of heretics on their border, and they coveted Rhode Island's arable land. The Puritan New Englande…
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1: Hughes Norton, Tiger Woods' former agent, talks about his career
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Reformed Super Agent Hughes Norton is out with a new book and has a lot to say. We peel back the layers in this in-depth interview.על ידי Keith Jones
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The Life and Times of Samuell Gorton
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Kenneth W. Porter, writing in The New England Quarterly in 1934, said that “Samuell Gorton could probably have boasted that he caused the ruling element of the Massachusetts Bay Colony more trouble over a greater period of time than any other single colonist, not excluding those more famous heresiarchs, Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams.” As we sh…
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PGA Championship preview with longtime Valhalla caddie Kyle Greenwald
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We preview the upcoming PGA Championship with longtime Valhalla caddie Kyle Greenwald, and introduce you to Grammy Award-winning New Orleans musician Jason Mingledorff.על ידי Keith Jones
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Rogues and Dogs and Fendall’s Rebellion
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This episode is about a radically democratic political movement in Maryland in the 1650s. Veterans of the New Model Army, many of whom had been swimming in political movements like the Levellers, came to Maryland and joined with other Protestants chafing under Catholic and aristocratic rule. Blood would be shed at the Battle of the Severn, and in t…
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In May 1660, Oliver Cromwell now dead, Charles II was restored as King of England. The 59 judges who in 1649 had signed the death warrant of the king's father, Charles I, were declared regicides, and exempted from the general amnesty Charles II offered to most people who had opposed his father. Some of the regicides were caught immediately and most…
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This is the story of the New Haven Colony from 1643 until is absorption by Connecticut in 1664. We look at the colony's economic, military, and geopolitical successes and disasters, and the famous story of the "Ghost Ship," perhaps the most widely witnessed supernatural event in early English North America. Finally, confronted with the restoration …
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The Founding of New Haven Colony
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Of the organized Puritan settlements in New England in the first half of the 17th century – Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Connecticut being foremost – the New Haven Colony was in some respects the most peculiar. It was probably the wealthiest of the four United Colonies of New England on a per capita basis, the most insistent on religion’s role …
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Dr. James Horn is President and Chief Officer of Jamestown Rediscovery (Preservation Virginia) at Historic Jamestowne. Previously, he has served as Vice President of Research and Historical Interpretation at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Saunders Director of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, and taught for twenty…
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Oliver’s Army: What You Need to Know About the English Civil Wars
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In order to understand the history of English North America during the 1640s to the 1660s, one really needs to know at least something about the English Civil Wars, Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth, and the restoration of the Stuarts in 1661. This episode is a high level look at that period, oriented toward the events and themes most important to the…
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It is the late 1640s. More than forty years before the famous witch hunt in Salem, William Pynchon's town of Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, was roiled by the strange doings of Hugh and Mary Parsons, an unhappy and anxious couple with poor social skills. In that dark, solitary place on the edge of the North American wilderness, anxiety, depr…
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Three Lost Voices From Early Maryland
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This episode tells the story of three "lost voices" from early Maryland, surprising people who remind us of the complexity of the 17th century Atlantic world. Mathias de Sousa was of African descent, and is called "the first Black colonist" of Maryland. He would skipper a pinnace in the Chesapeake, trade with the local tribes, and sit in the Maryla…
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Interview with Joseph Kelly
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Joe Kelly is professor of literature and the director of Irish and Irish American Studies at the College of Charleston, and the author of Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin. In addition to Marooned, in 2013 Joe published America’s Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Towards Civil War, which deta…
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Sidebar: Oscar Hartzell and the Sir Francis Drake Estate Scam
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Welcome to the first "true crime" episode of the History of the Americans Podcast, the story of Oscar Hartzell and the Sir Francis Drake estate scam, perhaps the most audacious con of the 1920s, the great golden age of the confidence man. Hartzell swindled as many as 200,000 Midwesterners, many from my own state of Iowa, out of millions of dollars …
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The Life and Times of William Pynchon
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William Pynchon, ancestor of the American novelist Thomas Pynchon, was the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, a successful fur trader, merchant, and magistrate, and at age 60 wrote the first of many books to be banned in Boston. Pynchon had come to Massachusetts with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, and soon became one of the wealthiest merchant/tra…
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It is now 1648. In this episode, two tough guys, Johan "Big Belly" Printz of New Sweden and Peter "Peg Leg" Stuyvesant of New Netherland, escalate their competition to control the critical Delaware River, now an essential artery for the fur trade coming out of Susquehannock territory in Pennsylvania and points farther west. Sweden and Netherland we…
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New Sweden Part 2: The Tough Guys Arrive
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We are back in New Sweden. In 1638, shortly after establishing Fort Christina at the site of today's Wilmington, Delaware, Peter Minuit would die in a hurricane on the way back to Sweden. The settlers left behind would go a year and half before another supply ship came, but they would survive with remarkable pluck. They were well-housed, because th…
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Sidebar Editorial: Notes on the American Historical Association Annual Meeting and the Teaching of History
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Your podcaster spent the weekend just passed in San Francisco at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. I learned a lot, but especially how transparently politicized so many professional historians seem have become. This episode recounts some of what I saw and heard, and concludes with my many thoughts on the greatest benefit of…
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An Overview of the European Settlement of the Northeast Before 1650
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In podcast time, we’ve been knocking around the northeast of today’s United States for just about two years, starting with the Popham colony episodes back in December 2021. The recent high water mark, as it were, is 1647 or so, with the recovery of Maryland by the Calverts after the plundering time. We are not entirely caught up to that date, howev…
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The “Plundering Time” Of Maryland Part 2
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While the first English Civil War rages, Leonard Calvert returns to the Chesapeake in September 1644, after having been away for a bit more than a year. He carries commissions from Charles I to seize "London" assets in Virginia and collect a duty on tobacco for the Crown. The Royalists who run the royal colony of Virginia refuse to support Calvert …
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The “Plundering Time” Of Maryland Part 1
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This is the first of two episodes that recounts Maryland's "Plundering Time," when the English Civil War spilled into the Chesapeake. Protestants would rebel against Catholics, and Richard Ingle, a Protestant merchant-trader who had been the principal commercial link between the early Maryland colony and England, would loot the colony and almost pu…
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Sidebar: More Notes on Thanksgiving
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This episode will be easier to follow if you have recently listened to our previous Thanksgiving Sidebar, "Notes on Thanksgiving."Thanksgiving is less historically genuine than many Americans were led to believe. The Thanksgiving story, as it was long taught in school, was constructed to achieve a purpose: the unification of an increasingly diverse…
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It is early spring 1644, and Europeans are fighting Indians in New Netherland and Maryland. In Virginia, though, it is quiet. It has been twelve years since the Second Anglo-Powhatan war ended after a decade of fighting that began the day the sky fell, March 22, 1622. On that date Opechancanough sprung his colony-wide ambush of the English settleme…
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Sidebar: Salina Baker on the Life of General Nathanael Greene
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Salina Baker lives in Austin - my town - and has just published “The Line of Splendor,” a biographical novel of the life of General Nathanael Greene, regarded by most historians as George Washington’s most important lieutenant. We talk about Greene’s life, his famous Southern Campaign in 1781 in which he and his men drove the British out of the Car…
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