1890s Growing American Internationalism

Lectures in History

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History, Politics, News

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🗓️ 26 April 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Baylor University professor David Smith taught a class about the growth of the internationalist worldview in 1890s America. He argued that economic, moral and political impulses caused Americans to consider a larger role in the world for their nation. Smith then detailed the actions they took, such pursuing missionary work, arguing for the expansion of the navy, and searching for new economic markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.3	This week, Baylor University History Professor David Smith teaches a class on the growth of the internationalist worldview in 1890s America.
1:18.2	What we're going to do today is start something very new and very distinct in the evolution of the story we're telling.
1:20.7	The 1890s becomes a distinct beginning of the way America thinks of itself in the world in a very different
1:31.4	way. Okay, look, if you want to understand the 20th century, if you want to understand the
1:36.4	role that the United States assumes for itself and plays in the 20th century, the 1890s
1:42.3	is the place to start. Because the transformation, listen, transformation that you see among the people and their
1:51.0	attitudes in the 1890s is little short of kind of amazing.
1:58.0	Remember this. Remember that as far back as you want to go in American history okay
2:03.7	the idea has been that the United States and before that the American colonies right
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