Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. From the nations capitol to wherever you are this is what democracy looks like. Cspan powered by cable. Our topic today were going to start with discussion of native americans won two different discussions we arere having. Want to make clear that is going to be a couple weeks but are going to use that as a way to link our focus is kind of around them. We are thinking more legal policy and issues. We think about this in the broad 19th century way. I will keep things to deal with. The second halfon of our semestr one of the questions we are picking up on is what is it mean to be an american . Who could claim to be an american to take us through the end of our semester as we deal for 19th century. And her upcoming weeks well talk about immigrants. Were going to talkbo about progressive era this is a good start point to think about who is claiming american status and what does that mean . We are going to build from some of the ideas with manifest destin
Privateering in the american. Just a little more background on me. Ive been a full time writer since about 2007. Most of my books are in american history, usually have a maritime component. Ive spoken at the archives a number of times in the past. Of the books include the history of whaling in america for fortune, an empire, a history of fur, trade in america, black flags, blue waters, the epic history of americas notorious pirates and my last book, a furious scar on the history of american hurricanes. But today i am here to talk about privateering and American Revolution. It was late the day on june 3rd, 1780, when salem captain Jonathan Harrod and his privateer, the pickering, were heading for the friendly port of bilbao, spain. The british achilles, however, stood in the way nobody would have faulted had he fled in the face of this superior foe. While the pickering had a crew of 38 men cannons, the achilles bristled with 130 men and 43 cannons, hardly fair fight. But thats not the w
To start with our discussion of native americans. This is one of two different discussions. Were having i want to make clear that were not talking about the indian wars in this kind of lecture thats going to be in a couple weeks and were gonna use that as as a way to link. Kind of wars throughout the 19th century all the way up to it including the spanishamerican war so our focus is were kind of around that. Were thinking more kind of legal policy and issues and and such so the goal is to think in that broad 19th century way so our start point is a couple key things we need to kind of deal with the second half of our semester one of the Big Questions were picking up on is what does it mean to be an american . All right who can claim to be an american . Thats one of the Big Questions thats going to kind of . Take us through the end of our semester into as we deal with the 19th century. So in upcoming weeks were going to talk about, you know, immigrants. Were going to talk about kind of
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