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MakingHistory
By Dan AllossoHistory
MakingHistory episodes
- Domestic Manners of the Americans (1828)
Source: Mrs. [Frances Milton] Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), I, 48-188. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/520/mode/2up
10 min - Objections to Panama Congress (1826)
Source: Speech by Nathaniel Macon, Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate (1828), III, 480-486. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/506/mode/2up
8 min - Monroe Doctrine in Monroe's Words (1817-24)
Source: James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents (1896), II, 7-260. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/494/mode/2up
11 min - Conditions in Mexico (1823)
Source: William Bullock, Six Months’ Residence and Travels in Mexico (1824), 52-498.
11 min - Perils of State Banking (1818)
Source: "Perils of State Banking" (1818), by a Committee of the New York Legislature, published by Hezekiah Niles, editor, Niles’ Weekly Register, March 14, 1818, XIV, 39-41. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/440/mode/2up
11 min - Indian Opinion of the White Man (1817)
Source: John Heckewelder, An Account of the History, Manners, and Customs, of the Indian Nations, who once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring States, in American Philosophical Society, Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee (1819), I, 59-65. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/466/mode/2up
10 min - Argument for Improvements (1817)
Source: "Argument for Internal Improvements" (1817), by John Caldwell Calhoun in Annals of Congress, 14th Congress, 2nd session. (1854), 851-857. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/436/mode/2up
11 min - Horwitz's Transformation of American Law
When I was a grad student, I read a lot of books for my Comprehensive Exams, which had a fairly extensive take-home written component followed by an oral exam. I got in the habit of making lots of notes for my own purposes, which I continued even after I had passed the exams. Some of this content on Horwitz began life as part of my review of one of the most consequential books I read in grad school.
20 min - People of the Woods (1817)
Source: Morris Birkbeck, Notes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois (1818), 105-114. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/462/mode/2up
11 min - Politics in Pennsylvania (1740-53)
Source: Robert Proud, The History of Pennsylvania (1798), II, 220-231. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari02hartrich/page/84/mode/2up
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About MakingHistory
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Making History is the top-level thing I do, as a historian, teacher, and writer. I create content, based on either original primary research or to present the findings of other historians to my…
students. This channel will cover several topics (arranged in playlists) such as note-taking, research, and writing tools and techniques, history I'm teaching at Bemidji State University, research and writing projects I'm working on, Open Education techniques and resources I'm creating, and reflections on the ways that history helps us understand our current world.