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Lectures in History

Mexican-American War

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Aquinas College professor John Pinheiro, teaches a class about the Mexican-American War during the late 1840s. Professor Pinheiro is the author of "Manifest Ambition: James K. Polk and Civil-Military Relations during the Mexican War." Aquinas College is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:07.8

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

0:15.2

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

0:23.2

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

0:27.5

U.S. territory.

0:29.3

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

0:32.9

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

0:39.4

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1:13.0

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

1:16.6

This is a war a lot of Americans.

1:18.9

I think they know very little about it.

1:20.7

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

1:23.3

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

1:26.7

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

1:30.5

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

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