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Audio Lecture: Manifest Destiny, 1830-1848

featured sources: Anders Stephanson, Manifest Destiny and the American Empire of Right, 1995. Andrew Jackson, “Letter to Moses Dawson”, 1848. John Gast, American Progress, 1872.

Podcast Class: The Russian Revolution and Versailles

Class notes: V.I. Lenin, April Theses V.I. Lenin, cf. Speech to the Petrograd Soviet–November 7, 1917 *Say what one ought to about Bolsheviks (the mass murder, depravity and hypocrisy of the whole enterprise), but they were/are pretty good archivists–excluding of course all of the stuff (see above) they never wanted to get out…

TV Pilot Proposal on the Progressive Era: Undercover Boss

Exceptional pilot proposal and parody of “Undercover Boss” featuring the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. The assembled team even got kicked out of the Jewel supermarket for filming in the meat section. Dedication.

TV Pilot Proposal on the Progressive Era: The Bachelor

Outstanding proposal as a parody of Woodrow Wilson (evil) as “The Bachelor”. Who was worse then: Juan Pablo or Woodrow Wilson?.. Either way, I loved Andi Dorfman despite the fact that it now appears that Josh Murray considers her the devil. Boy, this got really gossipy quickly.

Video Lecture: The New State, 1787-c. 1791

*Now, this video lecture is from 2017 and looking back on it, I omitted too much about Hamilton’s rationales regarding the establishment of a centralized, national bank, especially the more nefarious ones. These included–in Hamilton’s own words the use of the bank as a funding mechanism (through the inflationary printing money–explicative tautology there) in “times…
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