Examples of Historical Thinking - The Barbary Pirates - What Happened Later?
Channel: teachinghistoryorg
Date: 2011-08-01

Christine Sears looks at two 1800 letters between James L. Cathcart, American consul to Tripoli, and the current Secretary of State. Together, the letters give a hint of the political and military tensions that would lead to the First Barbary War.

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