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MakingHistory

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 I am researching or teaching, and reflections on the ways that history helps us understand our current world. danallosso.substack.com

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5:42

Bella Ciao!

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/08

I made this video a while ago, but I thought I’d add it to my Freethinkers collection, since I tend to think of anti-fascists as being very similar in temperament to freethinkers. 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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2:01

Barn Cats

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/08

Another weekly introduction for my 2016 American Environmental History students. This time during a February thaw, which the outdoor cats were very happy to see! 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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1:58

Henhouse and Greenhouse

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/07

A weekly introduction in my 2016 American Environmental History course, in which I showed off my hens wintering in the greenhouse where I grew tomatoes and peppers in the summer. 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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13:18

Dust Bowl

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/06

This is a short series of excerpts and my commentary on the 1936 Pare Lorentz documentary, The Plow that Broke the Plains, which I made for my American Environmental History students. 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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18:58

Conversation with Tracy, part 3

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/06

D: Yeah. It's got that flavor of, "what then must we do?" But at a very personal kind of level. I think that strangely, that is probably a really good mix with Substack because, Substack does seem to be about individuals trying to figure out how to... a lot of it up till now, at least the stuff that I'm seeing, has been how to become more precious as a writer but yeah, T: There's a lot of that.D: There's a lot of that. And a lot of it's good advice, but not necessarily the stuff that I'm most

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10:20

Texts and Tools (with Toshi)

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/06

Some reflections on my thoughts yesterday, as I was trying a variety of tools to organize and produce my course content for my fall classes. Spoiler: I ultimately landed on Obsidian. Also an on-camera appearance of Toshi the office cat, rather than just the typical photo-bomb. 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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2:27

American Environmental History, 2016

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/06

This is an introductory video I made for the course I taught online for the University of Massachusetts, from my home in northern Minnesota. I decided in that Spring 2016 semester that I wanted to begin each week by talking for a bit about the particular environment I was living in, which was the hobby farm I was running to help feed the family; and I encouraged students to reflect on their own personal environments throughout the semester. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this

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9:09

OER Thoughts

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/05

I'm feeling a bit ambivalent about the whole OER thing. Partly I think this is because of the way the Minnesota State system seems to want to manage Open Ed, which I think is much too centralized and top-down (not really unlike the Progressivism Tracy and I have been discussing). I think the trend in MinnState is to imagine that Instructional Designers are the key to the future. I think I'll want to think of my own work in that context, and really understand and articulate what value I'm adding that

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1:03

Hopscotch

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/05

This was another Gardenagerie post from March 2014. The baby goat was named Acie and she was the daughter of Elsie, who was the first goat we got. The one who followed me around like a puppy when we just moved in, in July 2012, when I was building the chicken house. We got to see several kidding events while we were raising goats. She’s no longer with us, but one of her brothers still is. And Max the cat is still with us too! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other

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9:44

Historiography

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/04

When Tracy Gustilo and I were talking the other day, she asked me a compound question that included what she called "a more basic question, what's the difference between history and historiography?" (this will appear in part 2 of our conversation). Now I'm pretty sure Tracy has a pretty good idea of the difference, so I imagine she wanted to direct the discussion toward that distinction. Unfortunately, I sort-of veered off course and didn't address the question completely. So I thought I'd say a bit

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41:59

Response to "Redefining American Capitalism"

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/04

This is a video I made for YouTube where I responded to Knowing Better’s video called “Redefining American Capitalism, Libertarianism and Ayn Rand”, from July 2021. I really like the videos Knowing Better produces, and I’ve made a couple of video responses. Here are the notes for this one (not precisely a transcript, but close):I wanted to respond to this one because Ayn Rand and Libertarianism was a huge influence on me when I was an undergrad in the early 1980s. I studied economics, read the

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15:44

Chicken Comparison Project

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/04

This is a video I made in the summer of 2014. It was the third summer of my time as a hobby farmer in northern Minnesota, and I had a website and blog I was running at the time called Gardenagerie, on which I was documenting that experience. I was also preparing to teach American Environmental History online for UMass, so I decided to use this with my students when we talked about the relationship between family farming and agribusiness. Here’s the transcript:Hi, my name is Dan Allosso and I am an

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10:20

Evolution & Critical Thinking

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/03

In 2020 the BBC published an article purporting to revisit an unresolved “abominable” mystery that had “plagued” Darwin in his later years. I dug into it a bit and found it wasn’t even particularly original. Just a rehash of a failed argument from Darwin’s own era. Slightly edited in Descript, and here’s the Transcript: Hello, world. Today I want to do a little bit of an intervention into current events. Now, don't worry, it won't be anything as trivial as American politics, but I saw a BBC News

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20:06

Conversation with Tracy, part 2

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/03

Transcript, in case you want to read along (or instead), or highlight: T: I can just read it out. You can take it wherever you want to, because this is really your field. But this is the state of my initial forays into this. So I recently read about Frederick Jackson Turner's idea about the American frontier. So he's been tagged as belonging to a group of late 19th century, early 20th century historians involved in the rising progressive movement. So you, Dan, have expressed interest in Vernon

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3:27

Hypothesis Highlights to Obsidian Notes

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/02

This is a video I made partly for my students in an upper-level undergrad course, to model the process of reading a chapter and making Obsidian highlights and short notes and then transferring those to Reading Notes in Obsidian. They did a good job with this and the discussions we had in this course, using this preparation technique, were very good!I edited this lightly in Descript and made a transcript, which is below: Hello! This morning I want to talk a little bit about the transition from

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105:22

Dream of a Democratic Culture, Meeting 1

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/01

I made this video using Camtasia and it came in at 2 hours and 27 seconds. Ran it through Descript and had the AI remove repeated words like “uh, um, you know”. Reduced the run-time to an hour and 45 minutes. Might make it worthwhile keeping the app, although it’s expensive. But maybe the improvement to the videos will encourage people to become contributors. 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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4:27

Filling in Empty Nodes

MakingHistory ·

2024/06/01

This is a re-edit (using Descript) of a video I made in 2020, about developing a discipline of filling in empty nodes in my Obsidian vault. A key element of Descript is that it creates transcripts, so for people who prefer to read or want to highlight, here it is:Transcript: Hello again this morning I have begun working on improving my Obsidian graph. I've decided to set myself a daily goal of shifting some of the purple points on the graph that are basically empty notes to yellow ones that have

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35:43

Conversation with Tracy, part 1

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/31

Here’s the first installment of a conversation I had yesterday with Tracy Gustilo. We had sent each other a half dozen questions prior to getting on Zoom. In this first episode, I answer a question of Tracy’s about my background and then she describes the multi-level approach she takes to the Anthropocene. I end at a point where we’re setting up the next couple of topics, sort-of as a teaser of what will be in the next installment. I edited this using Descript, and I’m just beginning to learn how

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5:37

Testing Descript Video Editing

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/31

I had a really interesting talk on Zoom with Tracy Gustilo, which she and I will probably both be releasing as a series of videos in the near future. Toward the end of the conversation (which continued longer than we had planned, because interesting topics kept coming up!), Tracy mentioned a new AI-powered video editing tool called Descript, which she said she was going to try out. The big feature of the app, as I understood it from her description, was that it generated a transcript and then

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117:08

Capital Order Meeting 3

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/26

We discuss the final chapters of Carla Mattei’s book. Next week we’ll begin Tim Lacy’s book about Mortimer Adler and the Great Books, The Dream of a Democratic Culture. 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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