This week, a lecture about the Mexican-American War during the late 1840s.

Professor John Pignaro of Aquinas College examined the political causes of the war and its impact on the following 20 years.

So the Americans start looking at these sparsely populated lands and see the potential for agriculture and mining.

And that's going to figure into the manifest destiny sentiment that these lands ought to just become

U.S. territory.

That the Americans would use the land better than the Mexicans were using it.

And not only that, they were ordained by divine providence to do so.

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We're going to cover the Mexican-American War today.

This is a war a lot of Americans.

I think they know very little about it.

It's considered one of the more embarrassing wars in American history,

and there's reasons sometimes Americans don't like to talk about it.

My own mother, even though I've lectured on the Mexican-American War for years and written

a couple books about it, still thinks I study the Spanish-American War sometimes.

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