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MakingHistory

by Dan Allosso

History

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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Episodes

  1. Braiding Sweetgrass, Meeting 1

    First meeting to discuss Robin Wall Kimmerer's book, Braiding Sweetgrass. I was much more impressed with the quality of both the writing and the ideas than I had expected to be. We cover most of the first section in this talk and spend some time on the themes of gifts, thankfulness, subjectivity,...

  2. The Science of Reading, Meeting #6

    This is the final meeting of the discussion of Adrian John’s book, which we had on August 31st.

  3. Modern World History Introduction

  4. US History 2, Chapter 1

    The first unit of my Fall 2024 US History 2 course, titled "Capital and Labor".

  5. 1875-Proposed Intervention in Cuba

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  6. Science of Reading Meeting #2

    We discuss the first and second chapters of Adrian Johns’ recent book. Some of the topics include the late-19th-century panic over the exhausting effects of “unnatural” reading and neurasthenia, other technologies (of both acquiring knowledge and making notes) and their advantages and...

  7. The Science of Reading, Meeting #3

    In this talk we cover the third and fourth chapters of Adrians Johns' book. The things that stood out to me were more about the social importance of reading rather than the research technologies and data collected. There was a profound anxiety that an American public that wasn't literate would…

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  8. The Science of Reading, Meeting 1

    After a couple weeks break while I moved into my apartment in Saint Paul, the Saturday Book Club reconvened to begin discussing Adrian Johns’ 2023 book, The Science of Reading: Information, Media & Mind in Modern America. Although I had originally been a bit skeptical, I’m enjoying this book. We...

  9. Dawn of Everything Book Club, Meeting 1

    Our first book club meeting, to discuss David Graeber and David Wengrow's book, The Dawn of Everything, in December 2021.

  10. US History II, Chapter 1

    This is an audio version of the first chapter of my Open Textbook, US History II: Gilded Age to Present. You can read along at https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/ushistory2/chapter/chapter-1/

  11. Surrender of Lee (1865)

    Source: Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs (1886), II, 483-496. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/436/mode/2up

  12. Among the Freedmen (1864)

    Source: Elizabeth Hyde Botume, First Days Amongst the Contrabands (1893), 82-129. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/444/mode/2up

  13. March to the Sea (1864)

    Source: General William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs (1875), II, 171-90. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/428/mode/2up

  14. Voting By Classes (1863)

    Source: Daily Sun (Columbus, Georgia), October 13, 1863, quoted in Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States.

  15. The Draft Riot (1863)

    Source: Anna E. Dickinson, What Answer? (1868), 243-257. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/376/mode/2up

  16. Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg (1863)

    Source: James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox (1896), 385-395. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/372/mode/2up

  17. On the Firing Line (1863)

    Source: James K. Hosmer, The Color-Guard (1864), 187-195. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/264/mode/2up

  18. Antietam (1862)

    Source: George Washburn Smalley in New York Daily Tribune, September 20, 1862. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/346/mode/2up

  19. Rising of the People (1861)

    Source: Mary A. Livermore, My Story of the War (1889), 86-96. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/220/mode/2up

  20. Principles of the Confederacy (1861)

    Source: Jefferson Davis, in The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Fourth Series (1900), I, 104-106. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/188/mode/2up

  21. No Extension of Slavery (1860-61)

    Source: Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works (1894), I, 657-669. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/202/mode/2up

  22. Crisis in South Carolina (1860)

    Source: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the Civil War (1887), 47-55. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/182/mode/2up

  23. Southern "Opponent" of Secession (1860)

    Source: Alexander H. Stephens, A Constitutional View of the late War between the States (1870), II, 279-299. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/164/mode/2up

  24. Result of the Election (1860)

    Source: Senator John Sherman, letter to William Tecumseh Sherman, The Sherman Letters, 1837-1891 (1894), 85-88. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/162/mode/2up

  25. A Warning (1876)

    Source: Speech of Horatio Seymour to New York Electoral Commission (1876) quoted in John Bigelow, The Life of Samuel J. Tilden (1895), 84-9. https://archive.org/details/lifesamtilden02bigerich/page/84/mode/2up

  26. Electoral Crisis (1877)

    Source: Almira Russell Hancock, Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock (1887), 152-157. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/504/mode/2up

  27. Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876)

    Source: "Battle of the Little Bighorn, Narrated by an Indian Who Fought in It", by Two Moons in McClure's Magazine, September, 1898. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/twomoonslittlebighorn.html

  28. The Tidal Wave (1874)

    Source: Hilary A. Herbert and others, Why the Solid South? or Reconstruction and its Results (1890), 61-69. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/500/mode/2up

  29. Ku-Klux Klan (1871)

    Source: House Reports, 42nd Congress, 2nd session (1872), II, pt. 1, 48-49. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/494/mode/2up

  30. Fifteenth Amendment (1869)

    Source: Henry Wilson in Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 40th Congress, 3rd session (1869), 153-154, February 8, 1869. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/492/mode/2up

  31. Completion of the Pacific Railroad (1869)

    Source: Henry Varnum Poor, Annual of the Railroads of the United States, 1869-1874 (1869), xlvi-xlviii. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/514/mode/2up

  32. Arraignment of Reconstruction (1868)

    Source: Samuel J. Tilden, Writings and Speeches (1885), I, 399-407. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/474/mode/2up

  33. Eligibility of Colored Members to Seats (1868)

    Source: Henry McNeal Turner, "On the Eligibility of Colored Members to Seats in the Georgia Legislature" (September 3, 1868). http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/mcnealturnergeorgialeg.html

  34. Fourteenth Amendment (1866)

    Source: Thaddeus Stevens in Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 1st session (1866), 2459-2460, May 8, 1866. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/482/mode/2up

  35. The South As It Is (1865-66)

    Source: Edwin Lawrence Godkin, The Nation (1865, 1866), I, 209-210; II, 110-173. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/448/mode/2up

  36. Presidential Reconstruction (1866)

    Source: "President's Policy" by Andrew Johnson in the Daily National Intelligencer, February 23, 1866. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/468/mode/2up

  37. Adoption of the 13th Amendment (1865)

    Source: Horace Greeley, The New York Daily Tribune, February 1, 1865. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/464/mode/2up

  38. Mississippi Black Codes (1865)

    Source: Laws of the State of Mississippi, Passed at a Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature, held in Jackson, October, November and December, 1865 (1866) 82-93, 165-167 http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/mississippiblackcode.html

  39. An Impartial View (1865)

    Source: Report by General Carl Schurz, Senate Executive Documents, 39th Congress, 1st session (1866), I, No. 2, 13-40. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/452/mode/2up

  40. John Brown Broke the Laws (1859)

    Source: New York Herald, October 21, 1859. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/146/mode/2up

  41. A Slave Auction (1859)

    Source: Horace Greeley, New-York Daily Tribune, March 9, 1859. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/74/mode/2up

  42. Cotton is King (1858)

    Source: Senate speech by James Henry Hammond, https://civilwarcauses.org/King%20Cotton%20speech.htm

  43. The Irrepressible Conflict (1858)

    Source: William H. Seward, The Irrepressible Conflict: a Speech Delivered at Rochester (1858), 1-7. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/138/mode/2up

  44. A House Divided (1858)

    Source: Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works (1894), I, 240-243. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/136/mode/2up

  45. Impending Crisis of the South (1857)

    Source: Hinton Rowan Helper, The Impending Crisis of the South (1857), http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/impendingcrisissouthhelper.html

  46. Dred Scott Decision Reviewed (1857)

    Source: Thomas H. Benton, Historical and Legal Examination . . . of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott Case (1857), 4-96. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/132/mode/2up

  47. Dred Scott Decision (1857)

    Source: Dred Scott v. Sandford, in Samuel F. Miller, Reports of Decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States (1875), II, 6-56. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/126/mode/2up

  48. Civil War in Kansas (1856)

    Source: Thomas H. Gladstone, The Englishman in Kansas; or, Squatter Life and Border Warfare (1857), 22-66. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/114/mode/2up

  49. Fourth of July Address at Reidsville (1854)

    Source: John Wannuaucon Quinney, From Great Documents in American Indian History, Edited by Moquin, Wayne and Charles Van Doren (1973). History is a Weapon, http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/johnquinney1854fourthofjulyaddress.html

  50. Slavery a Positive Good (1854)

    Source: B. F. Stringfellow, Negro-Slavery, no Evil (1854), 9-35. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/68/mode/2up

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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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