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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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31:02

English Consolidation

MakingHistory ·

2025/02/07

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 with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe

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3:25

Update on Webbed History

MakingHistory ·

2025/02/02

Here are some notes as I'm beginning to fill in the links in my Webbed History. I've already taken the first several chapter lectures, which were already helpfully broken down into bite-sized chunks because I was using a PowerPoint deck to present the content, and made a page for each slide. The next step was to double-bracket every term that I want to explain to the students or expand upon. Some of these -- probably most -- will get their own pages. I'm breaking the website into several folders

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9:20

Webbed History

MakingHistory ·

2025/01/31

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 path that combines the basic stuff students are supposed to learn in history classes with additional items that I think correct or add to the students' understanding of the past. I think it's always useful

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9:06

Great Courses US History, Chapter 2

MakingHistory ·

2025/01/30

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 professor Guelzo. The King of Spain. and Holy Roman Emperor, he continues, was the grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella. Then he says, "Christopher Columbus's royal patrons had only one child, Joanna, and she

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48:53

US History 1, Lecture 3

MakingHistory ·

2025/01/29

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 discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe

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66:53

US History 1, Lecture 2

MakingHistory ·

2025/01/21

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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19:17

African American History, Lecture 1

MakingHistory ·

2025/01/17

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 subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe

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46:49

US History 1, Chapter 1

MakingHistory ·

2025/01/17

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 students read and discuss each week. This week there are a dozen, beginning with an account of Leif Erikson in Vinland and concluding with Richard Hakluyt’s advice to Queen Elizabeth about using America to

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2:01

Happy Holidays 2024!

MakingHistory ·

2024/12/15

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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7:01

Substack Changes; Paywall "Off"

MakingHistory ·

2024/12/13

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 vault and renamed it “2025 Master”. Time to start weeding, though. I'm also getting ready to start posting my blog on a Wordpress site that I own, in addition to on Substack. The advantage of Substack is that

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8:26

Retrenchments Continue at BSU!

MakingHistory ·

2024/12/08

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 department to teach this semester. He said they had an opening for an American History professor coming open, due to a retirement. The way the system works, when there's an opening the university HR staff checks a

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3:57

Hobby Farm History

MakingHistory ·

2024/12/07

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 of “broiler” chickens I used to raise, to fill the freezer. And then, of course, my life changed completely in 2024. I took a walk around the property on a mild, sunny Saturday morning. Sort of took stock of

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4:42

Can't Do Politics

MakingHistory ·

2024/11/26

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 to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe

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9:50

"Heather Watch", 11-20-24

MakingHistory ·

2024/11/20

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 the usual channels of the State Department." Heather says this show his "determination to reorganize the federal government around himself". It couldn't mean he doesn't trust the Biden State Department? - Elon

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37:03

Globalization

MakingHistory ·

2024/11/14

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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11:58

Jon and Heather

MakingHistory ·

2024/11/10

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 that seems to have informed his questions. Jon actually began the whole thing, before introducing Heather, by acknowledging that Trump had won this election not by any trickery or intimidation or cheating,

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110:16

Poverty, By America - Meeting 1

MakingHistory ·

2024/11/09

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 moment. 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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8:57

My Reaction to Heather's 11-6 "Letter"

MakingHistory ·

2024/11/08

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 results were a surprise to everyone. Trump is a 78-year-old convicted felon." She continued with a description of how Trump had launched "an unprecedented attack on the US Capitol". She also said Trump had

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57:27

The Wonder Years

MakingHistory ·

2024/11/05

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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110:40

Bob Doto Book, Meeting 3

MakingHistory ·

2024/11/04

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, visit danallosso.substack.com/subscribe

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