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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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10:43

Trying a 3-Day Fast

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/22

A mini-documentary of me trying an 84-hour fast for the first time. Spoiler: I don’t get quite all the way to 84 hours, but I feel good anyway. 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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7:30

Multi-Day Fast Begins

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/19

I wanted to return to the fasting and getting in shape themes, briefly. I don't plan to obsess about them in my blog, but I do want to check in from time to time. So where am I at right now? Well, since the last week of March, when I had that wake-up call via the blood tests I took in preparation for my colonoscopy, I have lost 17 pounds. That's about a third of my goal. So I'm well on my way. Now you might object that it's always the first third that comes off easy, and then it becomes work. I'll

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6:33

Kindle/Audible Book Processing

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/19

2021-03-07: In this one I explored a bit of the workflow I use to get information out of audiobooks while I'm on long walks and also out of Kindle ebooks. 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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128:56

Capital Order Meeting 2

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/18

This week we continue talking a bit about Chapter 5, and then focus on 6 and 7. 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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5:51

Why I Didn't Automate Obsidian

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/18

On January 25th, 2021 I explained why I had decided not to adopt several cool new tools that had been introduced to automate data collection into and processing within my Obsidian vault. 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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20:02

Student Demo of Obsidian Research Vault

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/17

A while ago one of my History Majors, Kate Brekke (she’s now in grad school expanding on this research) did a demonstration for our Historical Methods course of how she had used the app Obsidian to organize and link her notes in order to gain insights from her research. Kate was reading primary sources (newspapers) to build a narrative of bootlegging and liquor smuggling across the US/Canadian border at Rainy Lake near International Falls, Minnesota. As she described, using the graph feature in

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6:39

Roam and Obsidian

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/16

On December 12th, 2020 I talked about the beginning of my transition from a previous note-making tool I was using, Roam Research, to Obsidian. Brief mentions of Roam Book Club and Sönke Ahrens.Note: I’m, trying this again, since some people had difficulty viewing the linked Vimeo, I’m uploading it directly to Substack. 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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6:34

More Thoughts About Obsidian Class Vault

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/12

At the end of summer 2021 I made plans to once again use Obsidian as a medium for my open textbook content, but with some changes from the way I had done it the first time around. 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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6:55

Obsidian Class Vault Review

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/10

At the end of Spring 2021 semester, I reviewed how the shared Obsidian vault had worked, that I used in place of an open textbook (OER). This was an interesting experiment and I think some students really enjoyed it. 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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10:18

Obsidian Class Vault

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/09

This was a video that I made a couple of years ago during COVID, for a class for which I made an Obsidian version of my textbook. It describes the ways I’m hoping students will use a shared vault and includes some thoughts about the usefulness of paraphrasing when reading and making notes. 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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24:21

Mill's Autobiography, Part 7

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/09

I especially liked Mill’s conclusion to this chapter, where he discussed compromise: I was thus in a good position for finding out by practice the mode of putting a thought which gives it easiest admittance into minds not prepared for it by habit; while I became practically conversant with the difficulties of moving bodies of men, the necessities of compromise, the art of sacrificing the non-essential to preserve the essential. I learnt how to obtain the best I could, when I could not obtain

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6:20

Zotero for Bibliographies

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/08

Since I made this video, a few things have changed such as the tablet app has been added. Generally the basics are still all the same.Links: If you found this interesting, you might be interested in this related post: 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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12:04

Schmidt's 2016 Article on Luhmann

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/07

In December 2020 I talked about the chapter called "Niklas Luhmann's Card Index: Thinking Tool, Communication Partner, Publication Machine" by Johannes F.K. Schmidt, published in the book Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe, edited by Alberto Cevolini. I also showed how I annotated it and made notes on it using MarginNote 3.Links: If you found this interesting, you might be interested in these related posts: This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss

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19:39

Mill's Autobiography, Part 6

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/07

My reading of the first half of Chapter 3, in which John Stuart Mill describes the end of his education with his father and the beginning of his “self-education”. I particularly liked how he described writing abstracts as an exercise in “compelling precision” and also how he benefitted from pushing himself a bit beyond his capacity. 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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11:20

Fasting Plan this Summer

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/06

I've begun getting more serious about my health and fitness. Partly this comes from a blood test I had done in preparation for a colonoscopy, a month or so ago. I had been aware that I was overweight and I was planning on watching what I ate and exercising this summer. The results I got on the metabolic and lipids tests convinced me that I need to get a bit more serious than that. I have been moderately interested in health and have read or listened to several books in the last year or so. Things

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5:29

MarginNote 3 and Note-taking

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/06

When I got started making YouTube videos it was partly to provide tutorials for my students but it sort of morphed for a while into commenting on tools and technologies I used in my work. This was in the era when people like Shu Omi and Ali Abdaal were just taking off, so I thought this might be something to emulate. This is an early video I made (you might notice I didn’t even manage to address the fact the image is backwards!) that expands on an even earlier video that got a lot of response on

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8:46

Beginning to Teach Note-Taking

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/05

November 14th, 2020. I began with a fairly high-level and sort-of philosophical description of ideas I'm beginning to formulate about teaching what at the time I was still calling Note-taking. I did end with the idea that "Writing is thinking". 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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19:32

Mill's Autobiography, Part 5

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/05

My reading of the second half of Chapter 2 in John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography. A part I highlighted was where Mill said “I rejoice in the decline of the old brutal and tyrannical system of teaching, which, however, did succeed in enforcing habits of application; but the new, as it seems to me, is training up a race of men who will be incapable of doing anything which is disagreeable to them.” This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus

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121:25

Capital Order Meeting 1

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/04

We discussed the first three chapters of Carla E. Mattei’s book, The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. We’re going to skip a week and talk about chapters 4 through 7 on Saturday the 18th. 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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24:56

Mill's Autobiography, Part 4

MakingHistory ·

2024/05/04

My reading of the first half of Chapter 2 of John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography, in which he describes his father’s character. There’s a very nice definition of “Liberality” as “the weakening of the obstinate prejudice which makes men unable to see what is before their eyes because it is contrary to their expectations.” This section ends with Mill’s depiction of the type of liberality we need today. He says, “the forbearance which flows from a conscientious sense of the importance to mankind of the

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