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MakingHistory — 323 episodes
Braiding Sweetgrass, Meeting 1
The Science of Reading, Meeting #6
Modern World History Introduction
US History 2, Chapter 1
1875-Proposed Intervention in Cuba
Science of Reading Meeting #2
The Science of Reading, Meeting #3
The Science of Reading, Meeting 1
Dawn of Everything Book Club, Meeting 1
US History II, Chapter 1
Surrender of Lee (1865)
Among the Freedmen (1864)
March to the Sea (1864)
Voting By Classes (1863)
The Draft Riot (1863)
Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg (1863)
On the Firing Line (1863)
Antietam (1862)
Rising of the People (1861)
Principles of the Confederacy (1861)
No Extension of Slavery (1860-61)
Crisis in South Carolina (1860)
Southern "Opponent" of Secession (1860)
Result of the Election (1860)
A Warning (1876)
Electoral Crisis (1877)
Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876)
The Tidal Wave (1874)
Ku-Klux Klan (1871)
Fifteenth Amendment (1869)
Completion of the Pacific Railroad (1869)
Arraignment of Reconstruction (1868)
Eligibility of Colored Members to Seats (1868)
Fourteenth Amendment (1866)
The South As It Is (1865-66)
Presidential Reconstruction (1866)
Adoption of the 13th Amendment (1865)
Mississippi Black Codes (1865)
An Impartial View (1865)
John Brown Broke the Laws (1859)
A Slave Auction (1859)
Cotton is King (1858)
The Irrepressible Conflict (1858)
A House Divided (1858)
Impending Crisis of the South (1857)
Dred Scott Decision Reviewed (1857)
Dred Scott Decision (1857)
Civil War in Kansas (1856)
Fourth of July Address at Reidsville (1854)
Slavery a Positive Good (1854)
What, To a Slave, Is the Fourth of July? (1852)
Foundation of a New Party (1855)
A Plea for the Oppressed (1850)
The Poor Whites (1850)
On the Underground Railroad (1850)
Danger of Disunion (1850)
Lyman Ranney Letters (1850)
Civil Disobedience (1849)
A Forty-Niner (1849-50)
Defense of the Proviso (1847)
Capture of Mexico (1847)
A Young Officer in the War (1847)
Opponent of the War (1847)
Reasons for War (1846)
How Annexation Was Secured (1845)
Reasons for Annexation (1844)
Raleigh Letter (1844)
Condition of Mexico (1842)
A Fugitive Case (1841)
Cheerful View of Slavery (1841)
On the Coast of California (1835)
All Honest Callings are Honorable (1840)
Ranney Letters (1839, 1842)
The Illuminati in History
Retrenchment, Day 3
Retrenchment, Day 2
Retrenched!
Speech at Pennsylvania Hall (1838)
Anti-Slavery Protest (1837)
Texas Revolution (1836)
Spirit of Republican Government (1835)
Principles of Executive Government (1834)
Life With a Slave-breaker (1833)
Right of Nullification (1833)
Chicago (1833)
Boat, Stage, Railroad, and Canal (1833)
Black Hawk's Surrender (1832)
First American Steam Railroad (1830)
Migration and Persistence
Cherokee Memorial (1829)
Domestic Manners of the Americans (1828)
Objections to Panama Congress (1826)
Monroe Doctrine in Monroe's Words (1817-24)
Conditions in Mexico (1823)
Perils of State Banking (1818)
Indian Opinion of the White Man (1817)
Argument for Improvements (1817)
Horwitz's Transformation of American Law
People of the Woods (1817)
Politics in Pennsylvania (1740-53)
Evil Deeds of the Spaniards (1740)
Salzburg Germans (1734)
Establishing a Colony in Georgia (1733)
A Man Diligent in His Calling (1732)
The French and the Fur Trade (1747)
Present State of New England (1720)
French Mississippi Settlements (1718)
Englishmen Hate Arbitrary Power (1710)
Kandiaronk (1703)
Magnalia Christi American (1702)
Pennsylvania a Poor Man's Paradise (1698)
Life of a Southern Planter (1686)
Early Pennsylvania (1683)
Treaties with Indians (1683)
Pueblo Revolt (1680)
Dutchmen in Boston (1680)
Mary Rowlandson's Captivity (1676)
New York in 1687
Why the Dutch Surrendered (1665)
New England Opinion of the Dutch (1653)
The Iroquois (1644)
New England Indians (1642)
Pequot War (1635)
New English Canaan (1624)
Discussion of the Peace (1814-5)
Star-Spangled Banner (1814)
Justification of War (1813)
New England Secessionist (1811)
Sleep No Longer (1811)
Down the Ohio (1811)
Repeal of the Embargo (1809)
Argument for the Embargo (1808)
Letter from an Indentured Servant (1623)
Defense of Virginia Charter (1623)
Unmasking Virginia
Tales of Squanto (1622)
Why the Pilgrims Migrated (1620)
An Infidel Body-Snatcher and the Fruits of His Philosophy
Indians of the South (1618)
Caleb and Dan Discuss ChatGPT and Education
New York in 1679
Indian Captivity (1677-8)
Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
King Philip's War (1675)
Marquette on the Mississippi (1673)
Toleration in Rhode Island (1670)
Exclusion of Heretics (1637)
Church and State (1636)
Patroons in New Netherland (1629)
Founding of New Netherland (1628)
Defense of the Virginia Charter (1623)
Unmasking Virginia (1622)
Tales of Squanto (1622)
Why the Pilgrims Migrated (1620)
Tale of Pocahontas (1613-14)
Starving Time in Virginia (1609-10)
Lake Champlain (1609)
Early Struggles in Virginia (1608)
Value of Colonies for England (1607)
Transcontinental Trade (1602)
New England (1602)
Knowlton Biography, Chapter 34
Abasing Spain (1584)
Drake's Circumnavigation (1580)
An English Free-booter (1568)
Attractions of Florida (1565)
De Soto (1542)
Virginia (1584)
First Expedition to Kansas and Nebraska (1540)
First English Slave Trader, 1530
America in English (1511)
First English Voyage to America, 1497
Columbus' Diary 1492
Leif Erikson's Vinland
MakingKnowledge: Scott Scheper Explains Antinet
Knowlton Biography, Chapter 3
Knowlton Biography, Chapter 2
My Biography of Dr. Charles Knowlton, part 1
Maps of Content
Dawn of Everything Chapter 4 Notes
Dawn of Everything Chapter 3
How Can I Believe You?
Reading in Early America
Obsidian Book Club: The Dawn of Everything
Peppermint Kings, Part 4
Finding Connections in Obsidian
Reaction: Tyson on Joe Rogan
Peppermint Kings, Part 3
Help me Find World History Textbooks!
Historian's Reaction to "History of the Entire World I Guess"
Peppermint Kings, Part 2
My Research Trip to the Canadian Border
Peppermint Kings, part 1
Making History
Student Demo of Her Obsidian Research Graph
What Should You Know Before You Start Modern World History?
Fall Prep: Revising My Text Again
Obsidian Class Vault Again
What I Did Over Summer Vacation
Permanent Notes, part 1
Reading Notes, part 2
My Notes on "Smart Notes", Part 2
Responding to Listener Questions
My Notes on "Smart Notes", part 1
Reading Notes part 1
My Father's Library
Anchoring
Highlighting
Research Rabbit Rocks!
Flipgrid and Kialo this summer!
New Obsidian Publish Website
Sources and Arguments
Obsidian Publish
Confirmation Bias
Thinking Is Writing
Zotero to Obsidian
Heuristics, Part 1
Obsidian Class Vault Review
The Future of Publishing?
Inspiration and Interest
Processing and Using PDFs
Filling Empty Notes in Obsidian (#102)
OER Textbook in Obsidian?
Private Hypothesis Class Discussions (#100)
Notes on another Luhmann Article
Taking Reading Notes from a Print Book
Roam and Obsidian
Schmidt's 2016 article on Luhmann (#96)
MarginNote 3 Again: How do I like it now?
Notes on Luhmann's essay on Notes (#94)
Getting Things Done, part 1
My Note-taking Process
Planning to Teaching Note-taking
Kuhn's Paradigms in Historical Thinking
Visualizing Historiography
Kindle Highlights to Roam Reading Notes
More Thoughts on Roam Research & Smart Notes Reading Group
Roam Reading Group (#86)
Discovering Permanent Notes in Roam
Electoral College
More HyFlex!
Decolonization, Part 2
HyFlex!
Decolonization, part 1
World War II, part 2 (#79)
Ranney Letter 15: February 2, 1851
Note-taking
Dan's Book Reviews #4: James C. Scott
Ranney Letter 14: December 8, 1850
World War II, part 1 (#74)
Muckrakers (#73)
Ranney Letter 13, August 23, 1850.
Planning for Hybrid courses
Horwitz's really radical legal history
The Modern Crisis, part 2
Roam Research for Beginners
Grad School
Research
Book Review #2
The Modern Crisis, part 1
Dan's Book Reviews #1
Ranney Letter 12: August 8, 1850
The Columbian Exchange
Writing an OER
Trachtenberg v Lamoreaux
Ranney Letter 10: March 8, 1850
Ranney Letter 11: March 10, 1850
Fritz Haber (#56)
Peshtigo Fire
The Great War
Productivity Tools
Hitchens and Jefferson (#52)
Columbus Controversy
Birth Control in 1831
Historically Thinking
Ranney Letter #9: Jan. 8, 1850
Ranney Letter #8: Aug. 28, 1847
Radicals4Today
Bradlaugh and Historical Fiction
The Osborne Effect
Ranney Letter 7: August 29, 1844
Leaded Gas
Thomas Paine
Robert Owen
Changing Empires
Ranney Letter 6: August 23, 1844
Water and Pigs
Socialism
Chinampas
Ranney Letter 5: Feb. 15, 1844
Foner's Reconstruction
Voyages of Zheng He
Battle Cry of Freedom
The Troubled 19th Century
Ranney Letter 4: Feb. 15, 1884
Tools for Historians
The Charles River Bridge
Mobility
Staples and Stone Tools
Ranney Letter 3: April 30, 1843
Microhistory
Ranney Letter 2: May 15, 1842
Ranney Letter #1, May 19, 1839
The Ranney Letters
Monte Verde
Colonial North America
Berle on Monopoly
9/11 in Latin America
Early Globalization and Revolutions
Erasmus Darwins of Massachusetts
Beringia was not a bridge
Bella Ciao!
Early North American Colonization
The Americas and the Columbian Exchange
Government Duopoly
How the Civil War caused the Gilded Age
Europeans Discover the Americas
Asian Empires and European Nations
The Populist Businessman
Modern World History Begins in China
Modern World History Introduction
US History I, Lecture 1: Setting the Scene
The American Yawp, Chapter One