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MakingHistory
By Dan AllossoHistory
MakingHistory episodes
- Capture of Mexico (1847)
Source: "Capture of Mexico", by Winfield Scott, House Executive Documents, 30th Congress, 1st session (1848) II, No. 8, 375-383. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/28/mode/2up
10 min - A Young Officer in the War (1847)
Source: Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs (1885), l, 152-159. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/26/mode/2up
5 min - Opponent of the War (1847)
Source: Thomas Corwin, Appendix to the Concessional Globe, 29th Congress, 2nd session (1847), 216-217. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/24/mode/2up
7 min - Reasons for War (1846)
Source: "Reasons for War" (1846), by James Knox Polk, in James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents (1897), IV, 437-442. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/20/mode/2up
11 min - How Annexation Was Secured (1845)
Source: Thomas Hart Benton, Congressional Globe, 29th Congress, 2nd session (1847), 494-497. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/652/mode/2up
10 min - Reasons for Annexation (1844)
Source: John C. Calhoun, Works (1855), V, 333-339. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/648/mode/2up
10 min - Raleigh Letter (1844)
Source: "Raleigh Letter", by Henry Clay, Daily National Intelligencer (Washington), April 27, 1844. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/646/mode/2up
9 min - Condition of Mexico (1842)
Source: Waddy Thompson, Recollections of Mexico (1846), 235-241. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/14/mode/2up
8 min - A Fugitive Case (1841)
Source: "A Fugitive Case", by Samuel Cochran, Philanthropist (Cincinnati), March 24 1841; reprinted in Liberator (Boston), May 21 1841. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/630/mode/2up
9 min - Cheerful View of Slavery (1841)
Source: Charles Lyell, Travels in North America (1845), I, 157-184. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/590/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.