{"id":110,"date":"2020-07-09T15:10:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T15:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbymullen.org\/hist390fall2020\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2020-11-12T19:47:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T19:47:01","slug":"week-12","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/abbymullen.org\/hist390fall2020\/schedule\/week-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 12: Mexican-American War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-706d10eb-8744-48da-80a6-76182ad07706\">Monday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-5d8c31e0-aed0-4584-8441-4ecf81c5ce7b\">Thought Provoker<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-6aa8dd6f-c941-4094-b514-3e4e1e2c822e\">Think about the United States&#8217; relationship with Mexico today. If the United States were to go to war today with Mexico, what would be the cause? Would it be a popular war? Why or why not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-31840da2-4189-4d32-a607-b155f03dbb8b\">Optional Starter<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-f6400c83-cb57-48ad-a46a-7ed6b2eb31dc\">Listen to this podcast episode about Americans in Mexico in the 1830s (<a href=\"https:\/\/consolationprize.rrchnm.org\/2020\/09\/01\/episode-1\/\">transcript here<\/a>). Think about the causes that this episode puts forward for the Mexican-American War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=40502686&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;autoplay=false&amp;live-autoplay=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=true&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"80%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-6f7bee20-b62c-467f-863b-e1e147962c3c\">Non-Optional Activities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-092a7ead-1506-4e58-ab80-f5eac4e95f37\">Listen to this podcast about the Mexican-American War, or read the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/14W8XeDm6MnNUCFcBbGk1RYIQclOUAVi_aAhvpZ1RKvQ\/edit?usp=sharing\">transcript<\/a>. In your response, select one of the primary sources at the end of the transcript, explain what it is, and tell me where it fits into the story of the war (you might need to do a wee bit of research to figure it out). Then write about how this war connects to today, and something that was surprising to you in the episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_key=UurrTwc3ctXs--25506786&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;autoplay=false&amp;live-autoplay=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-7eef17d5-2548-4f6c-87b7-6c15096b3a84\">Bonus content<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-3b583d30-3828-4101-a080-e9d438d99400\">Last semester, in an attempt to cheer everyone up, I made a version of one of those primary sources in the podcast episode. So, if you want to hear it, here it is. If you&#8217;re feeling ambitious, you could make one of your own! (Hint hint: You could use something like this as Small Project #7&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_key=UurrTwc3ctXs--25579348&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;autoplay=false&amp;live-autoplay=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Optional reading<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Doyle, Robert C. \u201cManifest Destiny versus Nativism: Mexico, 1846\u20131848.\u201dIn&nbsp;<em>The Enemy in Our Hands<\/em>, 69\u201388. University Press of Kentucky, 2010.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctt2jcngh.10\">http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctt2jcngh.10<\/a>.<\/li><li>Dull, Jonathan R. \u201cTrade Protection and War with Mexico, 1815\u20131861.\u201d In&nbsp;<em>American Naval History, 1607-1865: Overcoming the Colonial Legacy<\/em>, 65\u201382. University of Nebraska Press, 2012.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/j.ctt1d9nqgf.8\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/j.ctt1d9nqgf.8<\/a>.<\/li><li>Greenberg, Amy S.&nbsp;<em>A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico.<\/em>&nbsp;Knopf, 2012.<\/li><li>Ruiz, Octavio Madigan, Amy Sanders, and Meredith Sommers. \u201cMexico\u2019s Loss of Land: Perspectives from Mexico and the United States.\u201d&nbsp;<em>OAH Magazine of History<\/em>&nbsp;10, no. 2 (1996): 24\u201335.<\/li><li>Silverstone, Scott A. \u201cThe Mexican War and Territorial Expansion.\u201d In Divided Union, 157\u2013201. The Politics of War in the Early American Republic. Cornell University Press, 2004.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.7591\/j.ctv2n7gkh.8\">http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.7591\/j.ctv2n7gkh.8<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thursday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For today, read over the <a href=\"http:\/\/abbymullen.org\/hist390fall2020\/final-project-guidelines\/\">Final Project Guidelines<\/a>, and then answer the poll in Slack about which project you think you&#8217;re going to choose to expand. (This is not a binding choice.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday Thought Provoker Think about the United States&#8217; relationship with Mexico today. If the United States were to go to war today with Mexico, what would be the cause? 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