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Throughline
The Lord Of Misrule (Throwback)

Throughline

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2024 49:24


By the time his book went to press in London, on November 18, 1633, Thomas Morton had been exiled from the Puritan colonies in Massachusetts. His crimes: drinking, carousing, and — crucially — building social and economic ties with Native people. His book outlined a vision for what America could become. A very different vision than that of the Puritans.But the book wouldn't be published that day. It wouldn't be published for years. Because agents for the Puritan colonists stormed the press and destroyed every copy.Today on the show, the story of what's widely considered America's first banned book, the radical vision it conjured, and the man who outlined that vision: Thomas Morton, the Lord of Misrule.To access bonus episodes and listen to Throughline sponsor-free, subscribe to Throughline+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/throughline.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Ye Olde Crime
Thomas Morton

Ye Olde Crime

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2024 45:54


Lindsay and Madison discuss Thomas Morton, as well as why Puritans were the effing worst, that it's okay to have a party once in a while, and how to write a book that throws shade on your enemies while also including the awe-inspiring beauty of a New World. Information pulled from the following sources: 2023 Smithsonian Magazine article by Colleen Connolly 2023 Sowams Heritage Area article 2020 The Public Domain Review article by Ed Simon 2020 World History Encyclopedia article by Joshua J. Mark 2019 Atlas Obscura article by Matthew Taub 1955 American Heritage article by Carleton Beals Find a Grave Merrymount Quincy website New York Public Library Wikipedia (1) (2) (3) Send us your listener questions to bit.ly/AskYOC. Go check out our friend Autumn over at the Autumn's Oddities podcast, which is part of the Darkcast Network. Become a member on Buy Me A Coffee for as little as $1/month to support the show.  Get your groceries and essentials delivered in as fast as 1 hour via Instacart. Free delivery on your first 3 orders. Min $10 per order. Terms apply. You can write to us at: Ye Olde Crime Podcast, PO Box 341, Wyoming, MN 55092. Join the conversation over at the Cultiv8 Discord and join the Olde Crimers Cubby to chat with us and other listeners of the show. Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, Spotify, Podcast Addict, Audible, or Goodpods! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zoe Nightingale
Thomas Morton Opened up Pandoras Box of VICES

Zoe Nightingale

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2024 33:57


Introducing the ONE and ONLY Thomas Morton I am lucky enough to have met this spectacular combination of Clark Kent meets Martin Q Blank (the vinyl expert from Gross Point Blank). Thomas is a fucking mench, who has had spectacular luck 38 of the 41 years he's been alive but he has lived through his recent ring of fire and THANK GOD is still here to tell us the tale. A Vice writer, and television host for the last two decades, this little cutie and idiot savant (his words not mine) is here to talk to us about what it was like to be handed your DREAM job in his thirties and trolled the world to write for what was once THE COOLEST THING IN THE WORLD - Vice Media. This is just a mere smidgen of the rockstar shit that has done - but I decided to force him to give me a snippet of the dope ass shit he has done In his Lisa frank colored life. THANK YOU THOMAS You can learn more bout him here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morton_(journalist) Follow me @drznightinlge Donate to my Patreon :www.patreon.com/oralfixation RATE MY PODCAST PLEASE - so important Check out all my work/events: www.zoenightingale.com LOVE DR z      

Throughline
The Lord Of Misrule

Throughline

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2023 49:10


On November 18, 1633, a book went to press in London. Its author, Thomas Morton, had been exiled from the Puritan colonies in Massachusetts for the crimes of drinking, carousing, and – crucially – building social and economic ties with Native people. Back in England, Morton wrote down his vision for what America could become. A very different vision than that of the Puritans. But the book wouldn't be published that day. It wouldn't be published for years. Because agents for the Puritan colonists stormed the press and destroyed every copy.Today on the show, the story of what's widely considered America's first banned book, the radical vision it conjured, and the man who outlined that vision: Thomas Morton, the Lord of Misrule.

TrueAnon
Episode 333: A Child Called Bullshit

TrueAnon

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2023 112:07


We sit down with Thomas Morton to seek emotional truth among the shaky facts of some bestselling bullshit memoirs and a recent comedy “scandal.”

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The Cousins Weird's podcast
Episode #80 The Haunted Isles of Shoals

The Cousins Weird's podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2023 37:55


Set sail for the Haunted Isles of Shoals in this episode. Uncover the mysteries of pirates, chilling legends, and unexplained phenomena that'll leave you with more goosebumps than a hidden treasure map!! Find us Linktr.ee/thecousinsweirdEmail usthecousinsweird@gmail.comSupport usPatreon.com/thecousinsweird Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morton_(colonist)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isles_of_Shoalshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Thaxter#Early_years_and_educationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuttynose_Islandhttps://www.dreadcentral.com/cold-spots/5069/the-isles-of-shoals/https://www.theyankeexpress.com/2022/03/08/392616/the-ghost-of-phillip-babbhttps://www.passagemaker.com/destinations/historic-haunted-isles-of-shoalshttps://www.cowhampshireblog.com/2006/04/21/new-hampshires-lakawaka-terror-of-the-isles-of-shoals/Music from Upbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/danijel-zambo/friendly-ghostLicense code: LZ5ZUHQLWV7IN6X

There's More to That
A Brief History of Book Banning in America

There's More to That

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2023 26:16


Book-banning might seem like a relic of less enlightened times, but the practice is back in a big way. The American Library Association reports that 2022 saw more attempts to have books removed from public libraries than in any prior year this century — indeed, it documented more than twice as many attempted bans in 2022 than in 2021. In schools, attempts to keep certain books out of the hands of students have been even more aggressive and draconian. What's new about these efforts is the subject that binds the most-challenged titles: Most of them address themes of LGBT+ identity or gender expression. In this episode, we talk with journalist Colleen Connolly about Thomas Morton's New English Canaan, the first book ever to be suppressed in North America. What did the Puritans find so threatening about it, and how has this book echoed through subsequent centuries? Then we're joined by Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, for a wide-ranging conversation about the history of book bans in the United States, how a resurgent wave of book bans in many states differs from those of prior eras, and why organized attempts to prevent specific people from reading specific books usually fail. A transcript of this episode can be found here. Read Colleen's Smithsonian story about New English Canaan here. Find prior episodes of our show here. There's More to That is a production of Smithsonian magazine and PRX Productions. From the magazine, our team is Chris Klimek, Debra Rosenberg and Brian Wolly. From PRX, our team is Jessica Miller, Adriana Rosas Rivera, Genevieve Sponsler, Terence Bernardo, and Edwin Ochoa. The Executive Producer of PRX Productions is Jocelyn Gonzales. Fact-checking by Stephanie Abramson. Episode artwork by Emily Lankiewicz. Music by APM Music.

History4Today
New English Canaan (1624)

History4Today

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2023 4:40


Description of Native Americans and English colonists in Massachusetts, by Thomas Morton of Merrymount.

The Other States of America History Podcast
Mount Wollaston, Merrymount and the Lord of Misrule (1624-1630)

The Other States of America History Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2023 21:44


Captain Wollaston creates a small settlement in New England, seemingly to use as a way-station and storage facility for Indentured Servants. Thomas Morton, one of his minor investors, had another plan in mind. Morton's neighbors in the Plymouth Colony will come to know him as, "The Lord of Misrule." --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osoa/support

ParaPower Mapping
MasSUSchusetts (Pt. 2C): More Maypole Mythos, Morton, and Puritan Nepo-Babies

ParaPower Mapping

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2023 116:35


Welcome back to ParaPower Mapping and the fourth installment of "The Secret History of MasSUSchusetts". It's a surprise double header! This was initially going to be one episode, but I got so obsessed w/ mapping William Pynchon's fur-trading monopoly and decoding the Rosicrucian wordplay in Thomas Pynchon's short story "Under the Rose" that I had to split this episode into 2. But don't worry, if you're anxious for our MasSUSchusetts Pynchon special, it's waiting for you. This episode includes: more maypole mythos; the veggie god Attis and "Great Mother" Cybele; correspondence b/w Cybele & Demeter; Demeter & Persephone myth variants, origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries; agrarian cult connections b/w the Eleusinian Mysteries & Cult of Cybele; aspects of the Eleusinian Greater Mysteries, sacraments, sacred words, and the prototypical oath of secrecy punishable by death (possible origin point of future initiatic societies' militant approach); the "Galli", the eunuch priests of the Cult of Cybele; the sacred feast day "Dies sanguinis" (Day of Blood) and their ritual castration; the ritual sacrifice continuum from Bacchanalia/ Dionysia, Thesmophoria, Eleusinian Mysteries, & Cult of Cybele to the Minotaur and child sacrifice to Moloch in Phoenicia & Canaan... ...the conclusion of the Saga of Thomas Morton; a note on Morton's maypole rite's efficacy as sympathetic magick and the fact that the frequent starvation of the colonizers likely contributed to their decision to hold the maypole revel; John Winthrop Sr. & the Puritan authorities' possible framing & murder accusations against Morton & their burning of his house; his second exile; Puritan attempts at suppressing his text New English Canaan; colonial-era depictions of indigenous society; the Ninnimissinuok & Algonquian pantheon, including elemental & cardinal directional deities, the creator god Kytan, & the evil Hobbamock; the Ninnimissinuok etiology of the giant Maushop/ Moshup, who threw massive boulders into the bay by Martha's Vineyard & used tree trunks to cook whales on spits; tobacco offerings to the giant; Ninnimissinuok ingenuity, craftsmanship, agriculture, and economy; the colonizers' weird race-science-y beliefs that indigenous Americans originated in the Trojan diaspora or one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel; Morton's belief in indigenous origins in the Trojan diaspora & attempts at syncretizing their spiritual beliefs into Greek & Latin myth; his argument that the frequent indigenous use of the word "Pan" indicated to past worship of the pagan god "Pan"; the Puritan desecration of Cheecatawback's mother's grave & other incidents of Pilgrim's backstabbing the Algonquian; Morton & Sir Ferdinando Gorges's legal quo warranto case against MA Bay Colony's royal charter; the resolution of Gorges's power struggle by his reception of a charter to territory in Maine; Morton's return to New England & death in Acomenticus... ...Puritan lit brat pack nepo-babies obsession w/ Morton; Jefferson & Adams family's interest in him; Nathaniel Hawthorne's numerous appropriations and other remixers of the Morton saga, including Longfellow, William Carlos Williams, the NYT, and the neo-pagan Thomas Morton Alliance; Robert Lowell's dramatization of Hawthorne's "Endecott & the Red Cross" and interest in Morton & Rosicrucian apocalyptic ideas; and finally Philip Roth's The Dying Animal and anti-protagonist sleazy professor David Kapesh's obsession w/ Morton and reappropriation of Morton as progenitor of the "cultural tsunami" that was the "sexual revolution" of Henry Miller & the 1960s. Songs: | Morris On — "Staines Morris" | | Cocteau Twins — "Ivo" | | Soft Machine — "Esther's Nose Job" |

ParaPower Mapping
The Secret History of MasSUSchusetts (Pt. 2B): Human Alchemy

ParaPower Mapping

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2023 199:12


In the third installment of The Secret History of MasSUSchusetts and the second part of our Historical Materia Ultima miniseries, we continue our mapping of the New England node of the transatlantic Rosicrucian and alchemical brotherhood that initiated the colonization, enslavement, & transmutation of America. The sundry foci of this EP: Slave-owning ministers & congregants of King's Chapel; the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the colonizing and plantation-owing arm of the Anglican Church; shitty modified baptismal rites; John Winthrop Jr.'s tutelage of George Starkey; the 17th century obsession with social-reforming “utopias”; Winthrop Jr.'s relationship w/ Jan Comenius; his John Dee fandom and library; his uncle Emmanuel Downing's push for the enslavement of indigenous Americans; John Winthrop Sr.'s bloody rule of MA during the Pequot War and the fact that the Mystic Massacre cleared the land for Winthrop Jr.'s alchemical plantation; John Winthrop Sr.'s membership in the General Court that drafted the MA Body of Liberties, the first legal document in New England, which legalized slavery... ...John Locke's secret Rosicrucian triumvirate w/ Isaac Newton & Robert Boyle, his hypocritical investments in Companies & employment by Councils directly responsible for creating the slavery economy, and the justifications for slavery in his “liberal” political theories; Newton's millenarian interpretations of the Book of Revelation; alchemical & Rosicrucian philosophies reifying social hierarchies... ...the Templar origins of England's Inns of Court barrister society, and the Inner Temple & Gray's Inn's connections to Rosicrucianism through Winthrop Jr. & Francis Bacon (+ the Order of the Pegasus); Hospitallers, fighting monks, and Wat Tyler's Rebellion; Winthrop's education there, and alchemical experiments... ...alchemical ciphers; Winthrop's search for legit Rosicrucians & pilgrimage to Constantinople; Winthrop Jr.'s alchemical economic development of New England, including its first ironworks, salt works, etc.; pansophic & millenarian attempts to convert Native Americans; the divine nature of salt; Winthrop's Eurotrip and a shit ton of alchemists named Johann; Moraien's “universal menstruum” and his beef w/ Descartes; Glauber's salt; animist metallurgical beliefs and spiritual alchemical allegories that Winthrop used to justify Native conversion & colonization; thiccccccc deposits of limonite; makin' money in the Enlightenment; Winthrop's connection to slave-trading Gov. Endecott... ...the saga of Thomas Morton; John Adams, J. Quincy Adams, & Thomas Jefferson's interest in Morton; Morton's arms-trading with local Ninnimissinuok; his friendly relations w/ his indigenous neighbors; his matriculation in the Inns of Court; work on behalf of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, anti-Puritan royalist; his frontier rager & the infamous maypole; a comparative religious & literary analysis of Hawthorne's “The May-pole at Merry Mount” by way of J.G. Frazer's The Golden Bough; May Day, Lord of Misrule, Beltane, wicker men; the Lord & Lady of the May; the quasi-Oedipal story of Attis & Cybele; Bacchanalia; Saturnalia; dick sacrifices; Morton's poem to Hymen; Midsummer (& Midsommar); St. John's Eve; Myles Standish's attack on Merry Mount; Morton's arrest and marooning on the Isle of Shoals; and much more. A list of all the texts, research papers, & articles referenced will be uploaded w/ notes on Substack or Patreon at a later date. Songs:  | Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel ~ “White, White Dove” | | The Wizard of Oz ~ “Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead” | | Nina Simone ~ “Four Women” | | Barney & Friends ~ “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt” | | Bobby Krlic (aka The Haxan Cloak) ~ Midsommar (Mushrooms & The Maypole Queen Dance Scene) | | Leonard Cohen ~ “Dress Rehearsal Rag” |

History on Fire
EPISODE 96: The Wildest Man You Have Never Heard Of: Thomas Morton

History on Fire

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2022 149:11


“The Puritans feared that which was undomesticated.” — Jeff Hendricks“Our earliest American heroes were Morton's oppressors, Endicott, Bradford, Miles Standish. Merry Mount's been expunged from the official version because it's the story not of a virtuous utopia but of a utopia of candor. Yet it's Morton whose face should be carved in Mount Rushmore.” — Philip Roth “He held out the promise of America as an earthly paradise, a pagan, not a protestant prospect, a zone of pleasure, not salvation through suffering.” — John Seelye “Drink and be merry, merry, merry boys;Let all your delight be in the Hymens joys…Or make green garlands, bring bottles outAnd fill sweet nectar freely about.Uncover thy head and fear no harm;For here's good liquor to keep it warm.Then drink and be merry, Or yet, lasses in beaver coats come away, Yee hall be welcome to us night and day.To drink and be merry.” — Thomas Morton Today we are going to play with one of the greatest stories you probably have never heard of. Even in U.S. very little known about this story and it's a crime. If you have even a superficial knowledge of American history, you have almost certainly heard about the settlers who came to Plymouth in 1620. What you may not have heard about is that shortly thereafter a gentleman named Thomas Morton set up a different colony just down the road from Plymouth. At a time when most people arrived to Plymouth in chains, as indentured servants, Morton abolished servitude in his settlement he called Merrymount. At a time when his neighbors in Plymouth were brutally squashing religious dissent, Morton encouraged religious freedom. And on top of it all, he and his friends entertained extremely friendly relations with Native tribes even openly intermarrying. What makes the story even crazier is that Merrymount was well on its way to be more successful than Plymouth. When new settlers arrived on American shores, many took one look at ultra-strict Plymouth, another look at the freedom to be enjoyed at Merrymount and didn't need to be told twice which way to go. The only reason why Merrymount didn't make it in the history books you may have read is because the pilgrims turned to violence to destroy a community whose existence was a challenge to all of their beliefs. From that day forward, the name of Thomas Morton has largely been erased from history. Some people could refer to Morton as a victim of the Puritan brand of cancel culture. The Puritan story became mainstream, and Morton's name disappeared. This episode fixes this mistake. If you feel generous and enjoy History on Fire, please consider joining my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/historyonfire to access plenty of bonus content. If you'd like to go to Japan for a historical tour with yours truly as a guide, please check out https://geeknationtours.com/tours/signature-battlefield-series-classic-samurai-from-the-gempei-war-to-the-mongol-invasions-2023/Big thank you to Wondery's ‘This Job Is History' for supporting the show. You can listen to ‘This Job Is History” on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts or by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app. Also a big thank you to Trade Coffee. Trade is offering our listeners a total of $30 off your subscription plus free shipping at https://www.drinktrade.com/historyonfire

The History of the Americans
The Lord of Misrule

The History of the Americans

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2022 41:50


This episode is about a happy-go-lucky Englishman named Thomas Morton, whom William Bradford dubbed the “Lord of Misrule,” and who would be a thorn in the side of Puritans in New England for more than fifteen years. Here's how Bradford described Thomas Morton in Of Plymouth Plantation: …Morton became Lord of Misrule, and maintained (as it were) a School of Atheism. And after they had got some goods into their hands, and got much by trading with the Indians, they spent it as vainly in quaffing and drinking, both wine and strong waters in excess (and, as some reported) £10 worth in a morning. They also set up a maypole, drinking and dancing about it many days together, inviting the Indian women for their consorts, dancing and frisking together like so many fairies, or furies, rather; and worse practices. Frisking! And worse... But Thomas Morton was much more than that. In many ways, he was the first new American of a very particular sort, and his story reminds us that American traditions have always been in a struggle with each other. Twitter: @TheHistoryOfTh2 Facebook: The History of the Americans Podcast Selected references for this episode William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation John G. Turner, They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain Peter C. Mancall, The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England William Heath, "Thomas Morton: From Merry Old England to New England," Journal of American Studies, April 2007 Michael Zuckerman, "Pilgrims in the Wilderness: Community, Modernity, and the Maypole at Merry Mount," The New England Quarterly, June 1977 John Endecott (Wikipedia)

Grant’s Current Yield Podcast
The Right Information That Matters

Grant’s Current Yield Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2022 45:23


With special guests, Thomas Morton and Prem Nainani of Aplomado Advisors. 

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Page Fright: A Literary Podcast
63. Moments and Notes Apps w/ Nolan Natasha

Page Fright: A Literary Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2021 55:02


Nolan Natasha chats with Andrew about his poetry collection, I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me? Andrew asks about beauty and handwriting poems. Happy holidays! ----- Listen to more episodes of Page Fright here. Follow the podcast on Twitter here. Follow the podcast on Instagram here. ----- Nolan Natasha is a queer and trans writer, performer, and filmmaker of Faroese and English ancestry, a settler living on unceded Mi'Kmaw territory in Halifax, Canada. Nolan has been a finalist for the CBC poetry prize, the Ralph Gustafson Poetry prize, the Geist postcard contest, and the runner-up for the Thomas Morton fiction prize. His debut poetry collection, I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me? was released in the fall of 2019 with Invisible publishing. ----- Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

The Dr Susan Block Show
F.D.R. (F*ck Da Rich): MetaSex, Meta Politics & a Perverse Metaverse @DrSuzy

The Dr Susan Block Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2021 78:09


Warning: Explicit Conversations About Politics, Culture, & Sexuality It's the last Love Train of Naughty November 2021 out of the Bonoboville Station, and we are riding through Techno-Feudal Lord Zuckerberg's fright-filled META-Manor! If Zuck and a handful of other billionaires are techno-feudal lords of the Perverse Metaverse, what are we? Serfs forced to Surf Capitalogenic Fake Worlds? What about Meta-Sex? Meta-Politics? Meta-Malarkey? Then we're onto a stimulating, sapiosexual exploration of interracial group sex in Pilgrim times and now; justice for Ahmaud Arbery (yay!); Killer Kyle doing the Tucker/tRump Ammosexual Media Circuit shuffle while Killer-Exposing Julian Assange remains imprisoned (boo!); Omicron around the bend; RIP Stephen Sondheim and Capt'n Max's friend Milva; Italian-accented senior romance; Thomas Morton the Orgiastic Anti-Pilgrim; continuing Mattress Madness from the Arcadia Zoning Politburo; the piquant pleasures of audio erotica; Abby Martin trying to confront Nancy Pelosi about the U.S. Military's part in Climate Catastrophes; why The Bonobo Way is the best way; an early Happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate; a crash course in “How to Initiate Phone Sex (for Dummies)”… and another stupendous, star-studded bacchanalian Spanksgiving throwback (Seasons Beatings!) and more. Read more prose and watch the shows (that are too kinky for Youtube): https://drsusanblock.com/fdr-meta  Need to talk PRIVATELY about something you can't talk about anywhere else? You can talk with us… Call the Therapists Without Borders of the Dr. Susan Block Institute anytime: 213.291.9497. We're here for YOU.

The Conservative Circus w/ James T. Harris
Paradise Valley parent Thomas Morton discusses porn being distributed in schools to kids and the backlash that is coming from it.

The Conservative Circus w/ James T. Harris

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2021 7:21


Pornographic material is being distributed to schools across the Valley and parents are pushing back. Thomas Morton and many others demand that sexualizing kids needs to stop.

New Books in Native American Studies
Peter C. Mancall, "The Trials of Thomas Morton" (Yale UP, 2019)

New Books in Native American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2021 49:52


Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/native-american-studies

New Books in Law
Peter C. Mancall, "The Trials of Thomas Morton" (Yale UP, 2019)

New Books in Law

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2021 49:52


Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law

New Books in Christian Studies
Peter C. Mancall, "The Trials of Thomas Morton" (Yale UP, 2019)

New Books in Christian Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2021 49:52


Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

New Books in Intellectual History
Peter C. Mancall, "The Trials of Thomas Morton" (Yale UP, 2019)

New Books in Intellectual History

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2021 49:52


Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

New Books in Biography
Peter C. Mancall, "The Trials of Thomas Morton" (Yale UP, 2019)

New Books in Biography

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2021 49:52


Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

New Books in American Studies
Peter C. Mancall, "The Trials of Thomas Morton" (Yale UP, 2019)

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2021 49:52


Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

New Books Network
Peter C. Mancall, "The Trials of Thomas Morton" (Yale UP, 2019)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2021 49:52


Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in History
Peter C. Mancall, "The Trials of Thomas Morton" (Yale UP, 2019)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2021 49:52


Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The Retrospectors
On This Day: The Man With The Idolatrous Maypole

The Retrospectors

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2021 9:57


Orgies, drinking songs, and - perhaps most damagingly of all - Paganism were rumoured tools of the colonist Thomas Morton when he established Merrymount, New England. It wasn't long before he was deported back to Britain by the Puritans on 9th June, 1628.It was his sympathy for the locals which had really done for him. But the headline-grabbing moment was his erection of a Westcountry-stye maypole, around which locals and settlers had danced and drank, and generally cavorted in ways that colonists aren't usually disposed to do.In this episode Rebecca, Arion and Olly consider why Morton's story is so rarely taught in schools; interrogate Encyclopedia Britannica's description of him as ‘picturesque'; and ask just how different Massachusetts really was from 17th century Devon...Further Reading:• Bob Neufeld reads Nathaniel Hawthorne's ‘The May-Pole of Merry Mount' (1836):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZzS5xIZ4rI• ‘The Maypole That Infuriated the Puritans', from The New England Historical Society: https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/maypole-infuriated-puritans/• ‘The two men who almost derailed New England's first colonies' at The Conversation (2016): https://theconversation.com/the-two-men-who-almost-derailed-new-englands-first-colonies-68213For bonus material and to support the show, visit Patreon.com/RetrospectorsWe'll be back tomorrow! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts: podfollow.com/Retrospectors The Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill.Theme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Emma Corsham.Copyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2021.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Story Search From Special Collections
S1 Episode 9: Thomas Morton and The New Canaan: The America That Could Have Been

Story Search From Special Collections

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2021 44:08


In this episode we discuss a book written by Thomas Morton (c.1579 –1647) an early colonist of North America and his book New English Canaan, printed in Amsterdam in 1637, a copy of which can be found in The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Americana Collection. Our guest is Peter C. Mancall. In his 2019 book, The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England, he writes about the importance of Morton and The New English Canaan. Professor Mancall is a history professor at the University of Southern California, focusing on early America, Native Americans, and the early modern Atlantic world.

History Comes Alive
Ep. 18b: Massasoit, Pt. 3b: Prelude to Part 4: Squanto Behind the Scenes

History Comes Alive

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2021 17:32


What role did religion play in Native American life? The religion or religious practice of the Natives along the Eastern Coast was much debated and observed. Some like Thomas Morton challenged the idea of organized Native religion. Others believed the Native worship and belief bore a resemblance to ancient Judaism. In this "bonus" episode (and precursor to our final look at Massasoit and his life), we'll discuss some of the pivotal activities and beliefs that drove the culture. It is just a snapshot of a much larger discussion. As we pare down our narrative we'll consider the power and prestige that a name can bring. As we pare down our narrative we'll consider the importance and the societal standing, how their native contemporaries may have perceived both Squanto and Hobomock. This consideration may lead us to rethink and reexamine the narrative that we have always enjoyed. Massasoit was a shrewd man. He was calculating. He was operating within the norms of his society. A society contemporary culture seldom really considers from the native perspective. We should. Audio Production by Podsworth Media.

Nite Shift Video
Real Weird| America's First Banned Book

Nite Shift Video

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2019 13:24


We discuss the story of Thomas Morton, The Lord of Misrule, and the author of America's first banned book. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Bookings - The King's Co-op Bookstore Podcast
Ep. 20: Kirby Poetry Launch at Cafe Lara

Bookings - The King's Co-op Bookstore Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2019 64:08


CW: Strong language. Celebrating the publication of This Is Where I Get Off, the debut poetry collection by Kirby, owner/publisher of Toronto's knife | fork | book. Kirby is joined by local poets Alice Burdick, Annick MacAskill, Nolan Natasha, and Bart Vautour, and is hosted by Sam Sternberg. ABOUT THE POETS KIRBY’s earlier chapbooks include Simple Enough, Cock & Soul, Bob’s boy, The world is fucked and sometimes beautiful, and SHE'S HAVING A DORIS DAY (knife | fork | book, 2017). They appear in Matrix Magazine, Dusie, Canthius, Carousel, Burning House, The Rusty Toque (Pushcart Nominee) and can be heard on bandcamp. A collection of essays, Poetry Is Queer, from Kirby’s ongoing class/workshop is forthcoming, along with their new chapbook, She Ascended Into Heaven (Anstruther Press, 2020). Their full-length debut, THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF is out now from Permanent Sleep Press. Kirby is the owner/publisher of knife | fork | book, Toronto. ALICE BURDICK is the author of four full-length poetry collections, Simple Master, Flutter, Holler, and Book of Short Sentences. Deportment, a book of selected poems, came out in November 2018 from Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Her work has also appeared in many chapbooks, broadsides, magazines, journals, and anthologies. She has been a judge for various awards, including the bpNichol Chapbook Award and the Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize. She also visits high school English classes as a “Poet In Your Class” through Poetry in Voice/les Voix de la Poésie. She co-owns an independent bookstore in Lunenburg called Lexicon Books. ANNICK MACASKILL's debut No Meeting Without Body (Gaspereau Press, 2018) was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and shortlisted for the J. M. Abraham Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies across Canada and abroad, with recent publications in Best Canadian Poetry 2019, This Magazine, Prism, The Stinging Fly, The Puritan, and Arc. Her second collection will be published by Gaspereau Press in the spring of 2020. She lives and writes in K'jipuktuk/Halifax. NOLAN NATASHA is a queer and trans writer from Toronto who lives and writes in Nova Scotia. His poems have appeared in The Puritan, The Stinging Fly, Event, Grain, Prairie Fire, The Fiddlehead and Plenitude. He has been a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize, the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, the Geist postcard contest, Room Magazine‘s poetry contest, and was the runner-up for the Thomas Morton fiction prize. His debut collection I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me? will be published by Invisible this fall. BART VAUTOUR is a writer, editor, and teacher. He is editor of the Throwback Series of books for Invisible Publishing and co-editor of a series of texts about Canada and the Spanish Civil War. He lives in K’jipuktuk/Halifax with his partner, daughter, and Marley the dog. Bookings is recorded and produced by Paul MacKay for the King’s Co-op Bookstore in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Check out the bookstore at www.kingsbookstore.ca or support us through joining our audiobook program at www.libro.fm/kingscoop

Riverside Church, Birmingham, UK
15/09/2019 | Could We Be The Home Our City Needs? | Jay Thomas-Morton | Bournville

Riverside Church, Birmingham, UK

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2019 27:02


Could We Be The Home Our City Needs? Part of our teaching series called 'Could It Be Hope’; about building the kind of community that can bring hope to our city. Recorded on 15/09/2019 at our Bournville gathering; interpreted talk by our Word of Hands (British Sign Language) Pastor Jay Thomas-Morton. To find out more about Riverside Church please visit: https://riverside-church.org.uk/

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds
365 - Early Colonist Thomas Morton (Live)

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2019 80:39


Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine the life of OG colonist Thomas Morton and his naughty ways. SOURCES TOUR DATES REDBUBBLE MERCH

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Longform
Episode 330: Thomas Morton

Longform

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2019 63:43


Thomas Morton is a writer and former contributing editor for Vice.

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Depolarize! Podcast
31: Empathy & Immersion with VICE’s Thomas Morton

Depolarize! Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2017 85:12


VICE journalist Thomas Morton reveals the intent behind his unique approach to complete immersion with various subcultures in his docuseries Balls Deep.

The Kyle Thiermann Show
#30 Vice Correspondent - Thomas Morton

The Kyle Thiermann Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2017 79:47


i tunes stitcher Thomas Morton (@BabyBalls69) is a writer, producer, and on camera correspondent for Vice.  During his tenure at the magazine, Morton wrote first-hand accounts of infiltrating religious cults, competitive binge-eating and living with a Dominican family for a week. He was also the first non-Juggalo to attend and report on the Gathering of the Juggalos. When Vice launched its online video channel in 2007, Morton began appearing as an on-air correspondent in numerous documentaries and video series, covering environmental catastrophes in the Pacific Ocean, the Louisiana Gulf coast, and the Brazilian Amazon.  Morton has been a producer and correspondent for Vice HBO since 2013. From 2014 to 2015, Morton served as a field reporter and host for Noisey's music documentaries Noisey Chiraq and Noisey Atlanta.  In early 2016, Vice began broadcasting a new television channel, VICELAND. Thomas Morton currently hosts a long-form, pop anthropology docuseries called Balls Deep, which features in-depth investigative pieces focused on different American subcultures in each episode.   Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

The Kyle Thiermann Show
#30 Vice Correspondent - Thomas Morton

The Kyle Thiermann Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2017 79:47


i tunes stitcher Thomas Morton (@BabyBalls69) is a writer, producer, and on camera correspondent for Vice.  During his tenure at the magazine, Morton wrote first-hand accounts of infiltrating religious cults, competitive binge-eating and living with a Dominican family for a week. He was also the first non-Juggalo to attend and report on the Gathering of the Juggalos. When Vice launched its online video channel in 2007, Morton began appearing as an on-air correspondent in numerous documentaries and video series, covering environmental catastrophes in the Pacific Ocean, the Louisiana Gulf coast, and the Brazilian Amazon.  Morton has been a producer and correspondent for Vice HBO since 2013. From 2014 to 2015, Morton served as a field reporter and host for Noisey's music documentaries Noisey Chiraq and Noisey Atlanta.  In early 2016, Vice began broadcasting a new television channel, VICELAND. Thomas Morton currently hosts a long-form, pop anthropology docuseries called Balls Deep, which features in-depth investigative pieces focused on different American subcultures in each episode.  

Jenna & Julien Podcast
Podcast #81 - Playing 'Fruit or Vegetable'

Jenna & Julien Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 29, 2016 45:58


VICELAND is a new TV channel from VICE premiering today. Balls Deep with Thomas Morton starts March 2nd at 11pm Train your mind for a healthier, less-stressed life. Start your FREE TRIAL today at http://headspace.com/jennajulien Welcome to the Jenna & Julien Podcast where we talk about all the things. If you are looking for your everyday, normal, by the book podcast, then you're in the wrong place. We created this because we tend to have awesome, random, and sometimes drunk conversations that we realized had to be shared with the lovely internet world. So here we are. Subscribe to this channel for new podcasts EVERY MONDAY We are on iTunes: http://iTunes.com/jennajulienpodcast And SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jennajulienpod... We're also live on Twitch every monday: http://twitch.tv/jennajulien You can follow us on all the things: Instagram: http://instagram.com/jennajulienpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/jennajulienpod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/JennaJulienPo... Jenna: IG: http://instagram.com/jennamarbles TW: https://twitter.com/Jenna_Marbles YT: https://www.youtube.com/user/JennaMar... 2nd Chanel: https://www.youtube.com/user/JennaMar... Julien: IG: http://instagram.com/juliensolomita TW: https://twitter.com/JulienSolomita YT: https://www.youtube.com/jsolo P.O. Box If you want to send us things: 4335 Van Nuys Blvd. Box # 310 Sherman Oaks, CA 91403