Best Dan Allosso Podcasts (2024)

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1875-Proposed Intervention in Cuba 9:09

5d ago9:09

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Science of Reading Meeting #2 1:54:10

10d ago1:54:10

1:54:10

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 disadvantages, saccades and thought, the strange misuse of the i…

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The Science of Reading, Meeting #3 1:38:00

10d ago1:38:00

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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 not be up to the challenges of the 20th century. There'…

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The Science of Reading, Meeting 1 2:10:21

24d ago2:10:21

2:10:21

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 discussed languages and reading, the particularity of…

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Dawn of Everything Book Club, Meeting 1 1:40:06

2M ago1:40:06

1:40:06

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

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US History II, Chapter 1 1:24:15

7M ago1:24:15

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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/

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Surrender of Lee (1865) 9:30

8M ago9:30

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

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Among the Freedmen (1864) 7:21

8M ago7:21

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

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March to the Sea (1864) 9:17

8M ago9:17

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

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Voting By Classes (1863) 6:38

8M ago6:38

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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.

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The Draft Riot (1863) 10:53

8M ago10:53

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

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Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg (1863) 9:32

8M ago9:32

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

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On the Firing Line (1863) 7:22

8M ago7:22

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

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Antietam (1862) 10:04

8M ago10:04

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

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Rising of the People (1861) 9:46

8M ago9:46

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

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Principles of the Confederacy (1861) 10:44

8M ago10:44

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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

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No Extension of Slavery (1860-61) 5:11

8M ago5:11

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

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Crisis in South Carolina (1860) 10:47

8M ago10:47

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

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Southern "Opponent" of Secession (1860) 9:14

8M ago9:14

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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

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Result of the Election (1860) 5:02

8M ago5:02

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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

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A Warning (1876) 8:50

9M ago8:50

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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

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Electoral Crisis (1877) 8:05

9M ago8:05

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

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Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876) 9:06

9M ago9:06

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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

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The Tidal Wave (1874) 10:15

9M ago10:15

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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

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Ku-Klux Klan (1871) 6:50

9M ago6:50

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

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Fifteenth Amendment (1869) 7:23

9M ago7:23

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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

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Completion of the Pacific Railroad (1869) 7:43

9M ago7:43

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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

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Arraignment of Reconstruction (1868) 9:05

9M ago9:05

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

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Eligibility of Colored Members to Seats (1868) 9:33

9M ago9:33

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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

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Fourteenth Amendment (1866) 9:43

9M ago9:43

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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

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The South As It Is (1865-66) 9:33

9M ago9:33

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

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Presidential Reconstruction (1866) 9:15

9M ago9:15

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

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Adoption of the 13th Amendment (1865) 8:18

9M ago8:18

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

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Mississippi Black Codes (1865) 11:00

9M ago11:00

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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

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An Impartial View (1865) 10:17

9M ago10:17

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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

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John Brown Broke the Laws (1859) 9:00

9M ago9:00

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

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A Slave Auction (1859) 11:03

9M ago11:03

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

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Cotton is King (1858) 10:51

9M ago10:51

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

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The Irrepressible Conflict (1858) 9:56

9M ago9:56

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

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A House Divided (1858) 8:14

9M ago8:14

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

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Impending Crisis of the South (1857) 8:03

9M ago8:03

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

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Dred Scott Decision Reviewed (1857) 10:46

9M ago10:46

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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

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Dred Scott Decision (1857) 9:58

9M ago9:58

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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

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Civil War in Kansas (1856) 10:45

9M ago10:45

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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

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Fourth of July Address at Reidsville (1854) 10:54

9M ago10:54

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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

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Slavery a Positive Good (1854) 10:16

9M ago10:16

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

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What, To a Slave, Is the Fourth of July? (1852) 10:16

9M ago10:16

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Source: BlackPast, B. (2007, January 24). (1852) Frederick Douglass, “What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July”. BlackPast.org. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1852-frederick-douglass-what-slave-fourth-july/