The history of the United States /
Chronicles the history of the United States from colonial origins to the beginning of the 21st century.
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[2008]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Great courses (DVD). Modern history.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.