I’ve just published the second lecture (numbered 01 since the first lecture was 00) in Rise of the American Empire, my first Dangerous History Lyceum course!

In this lesson, I explain how the United States managed to grab title to the region known as Trans-Appalachia (the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River) at the Paris peace conference of 1781-3, despite having almost no ‘boots on the ground’ in the region at the time. Thus at the very moment of getting its independence recognized by the British Empire, the Americans were already aggressively charting an imperial path of their own, a path they’ll continue to aggressively pursue in various ways into the 21st century.

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