President James K. Polk took over the White House with a vision, and in in 1846 he set his dreams into reality. Like many Americans at the time, Polk believed in America’s “Manifest Destiny” to take over all of North America. Standing in his way was the newly formed Republic of Mexico, and Polk took extreme measures to manufacture a war that forever change the continent. This conflict would add the entire Southwest to the American nation, and spur the first true anti-war movement in US history. Although few understand its importance today, the long legacy of the war has soured US-Mexican relations ever since and remains critical to understanding the growth of the United States. On this episode we discuss the Mexican-American War.
S02E07: The New Kingdom Pt. 2-King Tut's Tomb
S02E06: The New Kingdom Pt. 1
S02E05: The Middle Kingdom
S02E04: The Land of the Pyramids
S02E03: Egypt, the Gift of the Nile
S02E02: The Conquests of Sargon
S02E01: The Fertile Crescent
BONUS: Fort Pitt: A Frontier History
BONUS: WARTIME ON THE AIR!
BONUS: WARTIME LIVE! "Guyasuta and the Fall of Indian America"
S01 Wrap Up
S01E12: The Seven Years' War Pt. 3
S01E11: The Seven Years' War Pt. 2
S01E10: The Seven Years' War Pt. 1
S01E09: Pirates of the Caribbean
S01E08: The Salem Witch Trials
S01E07: The Iroquois Confederacy
S01E06: Bacon's Rebellion
S01E05: Disunion in British North America
S01E04 WARTIME Live: North America's Three Empires
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