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14 videodiscs (approximately 2520 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (403 pages : illustrations maps)
Chronicles the history of the United States from colonial origins to the beginning of the 21st century.
Pt. 1. Lecture 1. Living bravely -- lecture 2. Spain, France, and the Netherlands -- lecture 3. Gentlemen in the wilderness -- lecture 4. Radicals in the wilderness -- lecture 5. Traders in the wilderness -- lecture 6. An economy of slaves -- lecture 7. Printers, painters, and preachers -- lecture 8. The Great Awakening -- lecture 9. The great war for empire -- lecture 10. The rejection of empire -- lecture 11. The American Revolution: politics and people -- lecture 12.The American Revolution: Howe's war.
Pt. 2. Lecture 13. The American Revolution: Washington's war -- lecture 14. Creating the Constitution -- lecture 15. Hamilton's republic -- lecture 16. Republicans and federalism -- lecture 17. Adams and liberty -- lecture 18. The Jeffersonian reaction -- lecture 19. Territory and treason -- lecture 20. The agrarian republic -- lecture 21. The disastrous War of 1812 -- lecture 22. The "American System" -- lecture 23. A nation announcing itself -- lecture 24. National republican follies.
Pt. 3. Lecture 25. The second great awakening -- lecture 26. Dark satanic mills -- lecture 27. The military chieftain -- lecture 28. The politics of distrust -- lecture 29. The monster bank -- lecture 30. Whigs and Democrats -- lecture 31. American romanticism -- lecture 32. The age of reform -- lecture 33. Southern society and the defense of slavery -- lecture 34. Whose Manifest Destiny? -- lecture 35. The Mexican War -- lecture 36. The Great Compromise.
Pt. 4. Lecture 37. Sectional tensions escalate -- lecture 38. Drifting toward disaster -- lecture 39. The coming of war -- lecture 40. The first year of fighting -- lecture 41. Shifting tides of battle -- lecture 42. Diplomatic clashes and sustaining the war -- lecture 43. Behind the lines: politics and economies -- lecture 44. African Americans in wartime -- lecture 45. The Union drive to victory -- lecture 46. Presidential reconstruction -- lecture 47. Congress takes command -- lecture 48. Reconstruction ends.
Pt. 5. Lecture 49. Industrialization -- lecture 50. Transcontinental railroads -- lecture 51. The last Indian wars -- lecture 52. Farming the Great Plains -- lecture 53. African Americans after Reconstruction -- lecture 54. Men and women -- lecture 55. Religion in Victorian America -- lecture 56. The Populists -- lecture 57. The new immigration -- lecture 58. City life -- lecture 59. Labor and capital -- lecture 60. Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism.
Pt. 6. Lecture 61. Mass production -- lecture 62. World War I: the road to intervention -- lecture 63. World War I: Versailles and Wilson's gambit -- lecture 64. The 1920s -- lecture 65. The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression -- lecture 66. The New Deal -- lecture 67. World War II: the road to Pearl Harbor -- lecture 68. World War II: the European theater -- lecture 69. World War II: the Pacific theater -- lecture 70. The Cold War -- lecture 71. The Korean War and McCarthyism -- lecture 72. The affluent society.
Pt. 7. Lecture 73. The Civil Rights Movement -- lecture 74. The New Frontier and the Great Society -- lecture 75. The rise of mass media -- lecture 76. The Vietnam War -- lecture 77. The Women's Movement -- lecture 78. Nixon and Watergate -- lecture 79. Environmentalism -- lecture 80. Religion in twentieth century America -- lecture 81. Carter and the Reagan Revolution -- lecture 82. The new world order -- lecture 83. Clinton's America and the millennium -- lecture 84. Reflections.
Allen C. Guelzo, Gary W. Gallagher, Patrick N. Allitt.
Accompanied by course guidebook with same title.
Eighty-four 30 minute lectures in seven containers.
Guide includes lecture notes and outlines, timeline, glossary, biographical notes and bibliography.
Taught by: Professor Allen C. Guelzo, Eastern University, Professor Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia, Professor Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University.