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On your mask. Yes, sir. Bye. We're back in the nation's favorite tent. Let's do this. And it's

packed with a fresh batch of famous faces.

As long as it's edible, I'd be happy.

Don't chalk, trying my key.

How can it be?

The great celebrity baker for Stand Up to Cancer on Channel 4.

Stream now.

This is American History TV's Lectures in History podcast.

This week, Connecticut State University professor Thomas Belserski teaches a class on the relationship between two prominent 19th century U.S. politicians.

James Buchanan elected president in 1856 and William Rufus King, who served briefly as vice president in 1853. Okay, let's get started. Thank you everyone for being here today, and a special hello and welcome to everyone watching on C-SPAN.

So far this semester, we have been discussing the process by which you, as students of history, research and write papers.

As you know, our class is focused heavily on historical methodology.

And your task this semester has been to analyze a primary source and write a paper that explores its significance in a historical context.

We have considered how to write a research proposal, prepare a bibliography, construct an outline,

and draft the paper itself. And we have discussed the critical value of revision and rewriting.

These are the crucial steps that every historian must take to conduct original research and share it with the wider world.

Today, I want to pull back the curtain, so to speak, into the research process in a different way,

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