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The history of the United States [videorecording (DVD)].

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Teaching Company, 2003.

United States -- History.

United States -- Biography.

United States -- Politics and government.

Great courses (DVD). Modern history.

Great courses (DVD)

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Great Courses. The history of the United States [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

14 videodiscs (2520 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (xiv, 408 p. : ill., maps ; 19 cm.)

Course guidebook includes professor biographies, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.

"48 + 36 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.

Course no. 8500.

Pt. 1. Living bravely -- Spain, France, and the Netherlands -- Gentlemen in the wilderness -- Radicals in the wilderness -- Traders in the wilderness -- An economy of slaves -- Printers, painters, and preachers -- The Great Awakening -- The great war for empire -- The rejection of empire -- The American Revolution: politics and people -- The American Revolution: Howe's war -- Pt. 2. The American Revolution: Washington's war -- Creating the Constitution -- Hamilton's republic -- Republicans and federalism -- Adams and liberty -- The Jeffersonian reaction -- Territory and treason -- The agrarian republic -- The disastrous War of 1812 -- The "American System" -- A nation announcing itself -- National republican follies -- Pt. 3. The second great awakening -- Dark satanic mills -- The military chieftain -- The politics of distrust -- The monster bank -- Whigs and Democrats -- American romanticism -- The age of reform -- Southern society and the defense of slavery -- Whose Manifest Destiny? -- The Mexican War -- The Great Compromise -- Pt. 4. Sectional tensions escalate -- Drifting toward disaster -- The coming of war -- The first year of fighting -- Shifting tides of battle -- Diplomatic clashes and sustaining the war -- Behind the lines: politics and economies -- African Americans in wartime -- The Union drive to victory -- Presidential reconstruction -- Congress takes command -- Reconstruction ends.

Pt. 5. Industrialization -- Transcontinental railroads -- The last Indian wars -- Farming the Great Plains -- African Americans after Reconstruction -- Men and women -- Religion in Victorian America -- The Populists -- The new immigration -- City life -- Labor and capital -- Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism -- Pt. 6. Mass production -- World War I: the road to intervention -- World War I: Versailles and Wilson's gambit -- The 1920s -- The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression -- The New Deal - World War II: the road to Pearl Harbor -- World War II: the European theater -- World War II: the Pacific theater -- The Cold War -- The Korean War and McCarthyism -- The affluent society -- Pt. 7 The Civil Rights Movement -- The New Frontier and the Great Society -- The rise of mass media -- The Vietnam War -- The Women's Movement -- Nixon and Watergate -- Environmentalism -- Religion in twentieth century America -- Carter and the Reagan Revolution -- The new world order -- Clinton's America and the millennium -- Reflections.

Lecturers, Allen C. Guelzo, Professor of American History, Eastern University; Gary W. Gallagher, Professor of History of the American Civil War, University of Virginia; and, Patrick N. Allitt, Professor of History, Emory University.

Chronicles the history of the United States from colonial origins to the beginning of the 21st century. Lectures presented by Allen C. Guelzo, Eastern University; Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia; Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University.

Filmed lectures.

Educational films.

Guelzo, Allen C.

Gallagher, Gary W.

Allitt, Patrick.

Teaching Company.

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