115 The Early American History of Texas

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 January 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Like many states in the south and west, Texas has an interesting early American past that begins with Native American settlement followed by Spanish colonization. It's also a state that was an independent nation before being admitted to the United States. Today we explore Texas’ intriguing early American history with Andrew Torget, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Texas and author of Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850. Show Notes: http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/115 Sponsor Links Cornell University Press Episode 046: Ken Miller, Dangerous Guests Episode 047: Emily Conroy-Krutz, Christian Imperialism Complementary Episodes Episode 067: John Ryan Fischer, Environmental History of Early California & Hawaii Episode 075: Rinker Buck, The Oregon Trail Episode 090: Caitlin Fitz, Age of Revolutions Helpful Show Links Ben Franklin's World Facebook Page Join the Ben Franklin's World Community Sign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App *Books purchased through this link will help support the production of Ben Franklin's World. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of Ben Franklin's World is brought to you by Cornell University Press.
0:05.0	If you've been listening to Ben Franklin's World for a while, then you know that
0:08.2	neither colonial North America nor the early United States developed apart from the rest of the world.
0:13.4	And one of the many episodes we've explored this idea in was episode 47 with guest historian
0:18.6	Emily Conroy Cruts, who's an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University
0:23.2	and the author of Christian imperialism, converting the world in the early American Republic.
0:28.5	Between 1810 and 1847, many Americans saw their role in the world as that of religious and cultural messengers.
0:35.0	They truly believed in this idea of Christian imperialism, which was an understanding of international relations that asserted that Christian nations, like the United States and Great Britain
0:45.1	had a duty to use their colonial and commercial power to spread Christianity to non-Christian nations.
0:51.2	This is why when many Americans look west to expand the United States, other Americans
0:56.2	look east and across the seas to Africa, Asia, and lands in the Pacific.
1:01.2	Like their Western-facing brethren, these eastward-looking Americans sought to expand the reach of the United States and to remake the world so that it fit within their Christian American image.
1:11.0	Take a listen to episode 47 to discover more about Christian imperialism
1:15.0	and the ways that some early Americans attempted to take part in the broader world.
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