Show notes
In this kickoff episode to a deep-dive series following the Jamestown Colony, we introduce the messy, dramatic, and often brutal first two decades of Jamestown—from desperate survival and nonstop infighting to uneasy relationships with the Powhatan Confederacy, the Starving Time, and the major turning point(s) of 1619. Along the way, we start to see how this scrappy, barely-holding-it-together colony became the point of no return that helped set the America—and its eventual revolution—into mo...

