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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 studen... more
FAQs about MakingHistory:How many episodes does MakingHistory have?The podcast currently has 323 episodes available.
November 12, 2023Capture 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 ...more10minPlay
November 12, 2023A 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 ...more5minPlay
November 12, 2023Opponent 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...more7minPlay
November 12, 2023Reasons 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 ...more11minPlay
November 12, 2023How 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...more10minPlay
November 12, 2023Reasons for Annexation (1844)Source: John C. Calhoun, Works (1855), V, 333-339. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/648/mode/2up...more10minPlay
November 12, 2023Raleigh Letter (1844)Source: "Raleigh Letter", by Henry Clay, Daily National Intelligencer (Washington), April 27, 1844. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/646/mode/2up...more9minPlay
September 16, 2023Condition of Mexico (1842)Source: Waddy Thompson, Recollections of Mexico (1846), 235-241. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/14/mode/2up ...more8minPlay
September 16, 2023A 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...more9minPlay
September 14, 2023Cheerful View of Slavery (1841)Source: Charles Lyell, Travels in North America (1845), I, 157-184. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari03hartrich/page/590/mode/2up ...more8minPlay
FAQs about MakingHistory:How many episodes does MakingHistory have?The podcast currently has 323 episodes available.