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16th century Spanish New World history book – “A Most Splendid Company” (University of New Mexico Press, 2019) – Richard Flint interview
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Richard Flint is a historian who has been writing on the 16th century Coronado Expedition for many years. His latest book deals with the global context of the expedition and we spoke about it.
0:59 – Richard talks about how he got into studying and writing on the Coronado Expedition.
4:16 – Richard talks about how this book differs from their previous books on the Coronado expedition.
12:15 – Richard addresses how military focused the expedition was.
14:40 – Richard talks about the armor used on the expedition.
19:00 – Richard describes the evidence that the expedition was not looking for gold but rather was looking for trade routes.
21:03 – Richard talks about what the motives of the native Mexican warriors on the expedition were.
25:45 – Richard talks about how they did the research to determine the roster of the expedition.
51:47 – Richard talks about non-Spanish documents that would be helpful for this research.
57:00 – Richard talks about a document he found about a slave sold four times in one day.
1:08:01 – They have a website coronado.unm.edu for more information.
Links of Interest
https://unmpress.com/books/most-splendid-company/9780826360229
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Guests: Richard Flint
Host: Cris Alvarez
Tags: military, history, military history, conflict, war, interview, non-fiction book, conquistadors, spain, mexico, coronado, antonio de mendoza, armor, men-at-arms, helmets, chainmail, slaves, archives, book merchants, italy, china, trade route, glyphs, priests, expedition
NASA history book – “The Space-Age Presidency of John F. Kennedy” (University of New Mexico Press, 2019) – John Bisney interview
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John Bisney has worked as a reporter, on news radio, in public relations and is a NASA enthusiast. We talked about the latest book he has co-authored “The Space Age presidency of John F. Kennedy” which is a photographic history of NASA’s work during JFK’s presidency.
1:03 – John talks about how he got into studying and writing on this subject.
7:35 – John talks briefly about NASA illustration art.
7808 – John talks about how they lay out the book.
11:23 – John talks about doing research at the Kennedy library.
13:34 – John talks about his favorite photos in the collection. He touches on Alan Shepherd in the White House Rose Garden.
15:24 – John talks about how he chose the pictures they used.
18:03 – John talks about the companies that worked on the space program.
22:21 – John talks about other important people found in the photos.
23:43 – John talks about interesting people who also show up in the pictures.
36:54 – John talks about video of JFK’s travels.
43:35 – The other co-author of the book has a website Retrospaceimages.com
Links of interest
https://unmpress.com/books/space-age-presidency-john-f-kennedy/9780826358097
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Guests: John Bisney
Host: Cris Alvarez
Tags: science, NASA, gemini, apollo, cape canaveral, jfk, space program, LBJ, congress, john glenn, white house, air force