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MakingHistory
by Dan Allosso
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. danallosso.substack.com
Episodes
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Channel Update
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Road to Serfdom Meeting #2
After a month off, we meet to discuss the first ten chapters of the influential Hayek book. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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Plutocrats Meeting #5
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Plutocrats Meeting #4
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Reconstruction
Final lecture of my Spring 2025 course, US History 1. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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King Cotton, Slavery, Annexation
And Manifest Destiny. Week 12 content for my US History 1 course. Students are also reading and annotating sixteen primary source passages, from an excerpt out of Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast describing California in 1840 to never-before-seen family letters of a young Yankee man visiting the...
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Democracy in America
Chapter 11 lecture for my US History 1 course. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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Caste Book Club, Meeting #4
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US History 2, Lecture 10
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Caste Book Club, Meeting #3
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US History 1, Lecture 9
In this one we look at the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, the Louisiana Purchase, and the beginnings of partisanship in American politics. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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Caste Book Club, Meeting #2
This week we discuss part three, where Wilkerson compares American Jim Crow, Nazi propaganda, and Indian Varnas. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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US History 1, Lecture 8
In this one, we look at the period between the end of the Revolutionary War and the Federalist administrations of George Washington and John Adams. Framing the Constitution, French Revolution, Illuminati Conspiracy, etc. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other…
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Caste Book Club, Meeting 1
First meeting to discuss the introductory sections of Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents. Also a bit about this week’s politics. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Ultimate Hidden Truth, Meeting 5
Our final talk about Graeber’s book of essays. But mostly about the first month of the new administration and politics in America. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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US History 1, Lecture 6
"Awakening" covers the middle of the eighteenth century, when American colonists experienced bot a religious revival and the beginnings of a rebelliousness that would culminate in the American Revolution. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access...
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Invitation to intentionality
Some thoughts prompted by a friend objecting to the idea of paying for my content. I think we’re entering a much less “mass market” and more intentional type of relationship with the content we consume and the producers who make it. So I’m not expecting my content is going to be valued and...
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Abhijit's US History
I've been a fan of Abhijit Chavda (https://www.youtube.com/@AbhijitChavda) for years now. Recently he has started making videos about American History, saying he's going to read a hundred books and use them to provide a better understanding of America for his million or so subscribers. I think…
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US History 1, Lecture 5
Another chapter of my course this semester, to set the scene for a dozen Primary Sources covering the period from 1698 to 1740. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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English Consolidation
This is the fourth “chapter” of my US History 1 course this semester, in which I tighten the focus a bit more to concentrate on some of the stresses that resulted in a consolidation of English colonial power at the end of the 17th century. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this...
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Webbed History
Each week during the semester, and often during breaks as well, I spend a fair amount of my time building stories to tell students. Narratives that connect a series of events or ideas that I want to impart in a course unit. As I do that, I'm typically trying to guide the story along a particular...
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Great Courses US History, Chapter 2
After a bit of a delay, here’s my review of the second chapter of the US History course produced a couple of decades ago for the Great Courses series. If you’d prefer to read instead of watching, the notes I used are below: Charles (Hapsburgh) had "much to gain from the grim reaper", according to...
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US History 1, Lecture 3
In this one we begin to zoom in on North America, looking at the earliest activities of the Spanish, French, Dutch, and English in regions that will later become parts of the United States. And at Native American reactions to these European activities. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...
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US History 1, Lecture 2
This is the second lecture of my US History 1 course this semester. It covers what happens when Europeans first encountered the Americas. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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African American History, Lecture 1
This is an informal (meaning no PowerPoint) lecture I did to clarify a couple of points in my African American History course. Among the points I thought needed attention: the Egyptians were Africans but Cleopatra was not. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...
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US History 1, Chapter 1
My first lecture for my online US History course, setting the scene and briefly describing the Americas, Europe, and Africa before the “discovery” of America by the Europeans and subsequent collision of cultures. The narrative “chapters” serve as a jumping-off place for the primary sources the...
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Happy Holidays 2024!
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Substack Changes; Paywall "Off"
I'm setting up a new hardware arrangement. I'll have an old iMac on the left side of my desk and the MacBook Pro with the addition al LG screen on the right. This should give me a lot of screen real estate on which to do a bunch of things simultaneously. I have also duplicated my big Obsidian…
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Retrenchments Continue at BSU!
I got an email end of last week from a friend who got me an adjunct teaching gig at the university where he works, in the Minnesota State system. He's a guy I've known for several years and I had collaborated with him, writing an open textbook for the course he got me a section of in his…
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Hobby Farm History
I’m visiting Northern Minnesota today, where I used to think I was going to live forever as a bobby farmer. To be truthful, I really hadn’t been keeping up with it as much as I probably should have, once I was working full-time at the University. I had already begun phasing out the annual batch…
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Can't Do Politics
I’m stepping back from the sort-of intense focus on political news I was contemplating, because I just don’t think I’d be able to stand it too long. Hopefully Substack will settle down as well, from the intensity that I’ve noticed surrounding the election. This is a public episode. If you'd like…
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"Heather Watch", 11-20-24
From “Letters From an American:. 11-11-24: - The Taliban congratulated Trump. The Taliban is bad. Trump began the withdrawal from Afghanistan. (QED?) - Rusia. Russia. Putin. Russia. - Trump "claims to have talked to about seventy world leaders since his reelection but has declined to go through…
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Globalization
Chapter 11 or Week 11 lecture for my Modern World History course. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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Jon and Heather
Heather Cox Richardson appeared on Jon Stewart's Weekly Show podcast a few days ago and talked for about an hour. Thanks Mary, for letting me know! There were more things that I agreed with her on, in this one. Although I have to say, I agreed with Jon even more. Especially in the frame of mind...
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Poverty, By America - Meeting 1
The first of four meetings devoted to the recent book, Poverty, By America, by Matthew Desmond. We only talked about the first chapter, which sort of set the scene. We also talked quite a bit about the election earlier in the week and a bit about note-making and sense-making in the current…
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My Reaction to Heather's 11-6 "Letter"
This is my reaction to Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters From An American" 11/6/24 blog audio: Speaking on Wednesday, Heather mentioned that Trump had won by that time about 295 electoral votes to Harris' 226 and that the Republicans had taken control of the Senate. She went on to say "These...
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The Wonder Years
Week and Chapter 10 of my US History 2 class. The growth of suburbs, the Baby Boom, Civil Rights. Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Dulles Brothers. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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Bob Doto Book, Meeting 3
In our final meeting to discuss the “Writing” section of A System for Writing, we disagree a bit but have a good conversation. We don’t decide what to read yet; I’ll announce that soon! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,...
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Cold War
Chapter 9 of my US History 2 content, about the Cold War and McCarthyism. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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World War II
This is the lecture World War II I did for my US History 2 class. Next week I’ll be covering WWII in Modern World History, so you’ll be able to compare. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Modern Crisis
Chapter 8 of my Modern World History text and course. This is about the period between the two world wars, which in a variety of ways represented a crisis in western modernity. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Great Depression
Chapter 7 in US History 2, covering the Great Depression and the New Deals. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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The Great War (again)
This is my World War I content for my World History course rather than the US History perspective I posted a week or so ago. Several of the points I make are the same (since the US was a significant participant in the war), but there’s a bit more attention to the rest of the world, I think. This…
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The Roaring 20s
This is the sixth chapter or week of my US History 2 course. From here on, we’ll be covering more or less a decade per week. The twenties, I think, doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Most of the focus always seems to be on the flappers and speakeasies, but there’s a lot of change. This is a...
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The Great War
My week 5 chapter in US History 2. The First World War, the “Spanish” Flu, Woodrow Wilson’s idealism (?), and Thomas Lamont. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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Troubled 19th Century
The fifth week lecture for my Modern World History course. Industrialization, Guano, Opium Wars. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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Cities and Progressives
This is week 4’s lecture for my online US History 2 course. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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Early Globalization and Revolutions
The fourth chapter of my Modern World History course. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe
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Zinn and Las Casas
As I've been sharing the Columbian Exchange with students in my Modern World History course this fall, one thing that has come up again in student questions and responses to the text, lectures, and primary sources is the vehemence of Bartolomeo de Las Casas in accusing the Spanish in the…
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Women in the Revolutionary Era
This is a video I made for my Women in US History course, to highlight some points made in the chapter we’ll be discussing this week. Among my notes, Loyalist women, enslaved mothers, some embarrassing moments for George and Martha Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the importance of education, and...
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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.
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