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28 Aug 2019 Conversations with Tyler Hollis Robbins on 19th Century Life and Literature
“One doesn’t want to talk very much about Manifest Destiny, but in fact, that is characteristic of the way we think about the 1840s.”
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- Hollis Robbins
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- 28 Aug 2019
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…Roads and canals decade. Yes, you see bridges being built everywhere. The beginnings of railroads at the end of, again, in the 1850s. Yes, infrastructure begins to be built, and the United States begins to think of itself as a nation. One doesn’t want to talk very much about Manifest Destiny, but in fact, that is characteristic of the way we think about the 1840s. But it seems no one talks about the 1840s, or am I missing out? It’s not a thing to think of that as the seminal decade in American history?…
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