The American History Podcast, season two, episode 10, Mexico becomes independent.

Welcome to the American History Podcast.

Hosted by Sean Morswick.

Yeah. by Sean Worswick. Okay, hello again, friends and listeners.

After a bit of a hiatus, we are back.

Unfortunately, it was a bit of an unplanned hiatus, but that couldn't be helped.

So let me explain what has gone on.

Really, it was a series of unfortunate accidents that kept me from podcasting,

but we should be back on track shortly. First was the decision to change my website hosting

over to Weebley, or from Weebley to Bluehosts. That was a decision I'd made a while back,

and I made the switch on March 31st, as you probably know. Unfortunately, switching the hosting wasn't as easy as it sounded,

and the website was up and down for most of April. Now, once that problem was solved, a second

problem arose, which is the end of the semester for grad school. I didn't have time to read for the

podcast as well as the classes that I'm taking, and so that delayed this episode further.

And then May the 4th arrived, and the 4th wasn't with me, to say the least.

I decided to play in the student versus faculty basketball game at our school, and that didn't go so well.

Okay, the teachers won, but I left the game early after I lost my

balance and ended up fracturing my right elbow. Yes, I know, I'm no spring chicken, and playing

basketball is the last thing that I should be doing at my age, which is still fairly young, I assure

you, but be that as it may, the elbow is now on the way to recovery and our episode is done so here we are

i figure this episode will be one in a two-part series on mexico although as the second episode is

not yet written who knows i wanted to make sure that we discussed Mexico as early as possible, and she is quite

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