Colonial History on the Mississippi River
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ค. 2024
- This video explores the surprising traces of French and American colonial history along the 150 miles of Mississippi River between St. Louis and Cairo, Illinois.
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Chapters:
0:00 The Middle Mississippi River
1:33 Ste. Genevieve and New France
2:50 Kaskaskia and the American Revolution
5:49 Thebes and steamboats
6:36 Cairo and the Civil War
You remind me of a professor I had. His primary focus was on Passamaquoddy and Maliseet peoples, but he taught a course on the indigenous history of Indiana, which frequently strayed into Illinois just cause everything back then was so interconnected. Great video. Told In Stone is wonderful but this channel’s videos are extra special
Great video! Thank you!
Thanks so much for this video. I am from Illinois myself and really enjoy learning about early American history in Illinois! Thanks again.
Cool video. Loved the drone shot of the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
Always getting a kick about the american-anglophone of French names.
For the record, you did really good for the most part. The only one I could give recommendation on the pronounciation is to say Quebec as k-bek or Kay-bek instead of kwe-bec.
The rest of the info is fascinating your footage is gorgeous.
Yes, 'Kweebek' gets my goat a bit. I grew up in Montréal and the American tourists would just mangle it all up. Dorval airport being pronounced as 'Dorvul'. The best was being asked how to get to 'plastic toy'. That was their version of 'Place d'Accueil'.
This got me thinking about my hometown, Florissant, Missouri, and an old tale I heard while at St Ferdinand for scout camp, that supposedly there's a chunk of land in Old Town Florissant that's still technically Spanish soil. Never found any info on it but I'm also not a researcher so I wouldn't know where to look beyond "has anyone else written about this" so I thought I'd bring it up here.
During the course of doing some looking around at old buildings in the area I got to reading up on the high school in the area, Hazelwood Central, which was also where I attended gifted classes for my school district. Turns out I probably passed Randy Orton in the lunch room while he was in high school there. Weird!
“He’s slithering into the lunch room!”
I absolutely love these videos. Can't wait to see more.
Nice departure from ancient civilizations.
Great video! I live in Quebec and I plan on visiting this region soon. Thanks for all of your hard work.
I'm from St Louis, happy to see my favorite history channel covering this region's history. Thank you Doctor!
Excellent video...as someone who grew up in St. Louis and then moved to New Orleans, it's good to see this slice of history represented. I feel like you could upscale this into a 30 or even 90 minute video especially if you added in some culinary stuff along the way. Cahokia Mounds and St. Louis added on top of these areas and you've got a full on travel history documentary with just a little more fleshing out of these very topics...
Wish I had time to visit these places.
Dr. G! We've wandered quite far from Ancient Rome I see, but I really enjoyed this. I've always liked driving through the US - it's often so completely alien compared to Canada. So many half abandoned towns full of interesting but decaying buildings. Streets that once bustled now empty with gaps in the storefonts like missing teeth in a fossilized jawbone. I can't even imagine living in some of those towns I've seen. We don't really have that here. And then, you get these odd little areas where that decay never seems to have happened and all is chic and modern in an antique setting - like Vermont. Of those blasted, decimated post-industrial places that abound in the US, the most extreme I saw was in northern New York State. Across the lake from Toronto it was a land where "12-alarm fires" regularly burnt down whole neighbourhoods, apocalyptic snowstorms buried kids alive on their way home from school, and where you could see big billboards advertising something called 'weck' as well as the usual 'guns, ammo and fireworks'.
Fascinating video, but it was way too short! I could have watched for the rest of the evening.
Fun fact: Cairo is pronounced by locals as "CAR-oh" Source: my grandparents who lived in Olive Branch, IL, a short drive away.
I am from Union County and we pronounced it Kay-ro. My Aunt and Uncle lived in Cairo for decades. He was a butcher.
I want more videos on (pronounced differently) Cairo!
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Very interesting. Chicago was a relatively late settlement in Illinois history?
Could you do a video on the primary differences between Rome and Greece. What are the fundamental things that would separate PreGreece Rome and Greece.
Not sure if you have been to lake itaska in Minnesota. My favorite place to go. Illinois gets boring sometimes.
I've been to Itasca State Park many times. It's always a bit trippy to wade across the Mighty Mississippi when it's fairly clean, knee-deep, and about 10 feet wide!
I keep clicking on videos like this to learn about the state of Mississippi and that is not what happens ...
what about natchez mississippi
Not going to lie, there are a lot of mediocre travel vlogs on this site. This is very much NOT one of them.
Typically I'll go to a channel like Townsends for this kind of content, and MedievalMadness for that portion of history, and ol Garrett here is my ancient history fix, but I always like seeing some historical crossovers in these channels.