The Skeptic's Guide to American History

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24 of 30 minute lectures on 4 discs.
Course guide book including lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes and bibliography.
"Course No. 8588."
Disc 1: 1. Religious toleration in Colonial America? -- 2. Neither American nor Revolutionary? -- 3. The constitution did not create a democracy -- 4. Washington: failures -- 5. Confusions about Jefferson and Hamilton -- 6. Andrews Jackson: an odd symbol of democracy -- Disc 2: 7. The second great awakening: enduring impacts -- 8. Did slavery really cause the Civil War? -- 9. Th Civil War's actual turning points -- 10. The myth of Laisses-Faire -- 11. Misconceptions about the original populists -- 12. Labor in AMerica: a strange history -- Disc 3: 13. Myths about American isolation and empire -- 14. Early progressives were not liberals -- 15. Woodrow Wilson and the rating of presidents -- 16. The roaring Twenties reconsidered -- 17. Hoover and the Great Depression revisited -- 18. What did Roosevelt's New Deal really do? -- Disc 4: 19. World War II misconceptions and myths -- 20. Was the Cold War inevitable? -- 21. The real blunders of the Vietnam War -- 22. Myths about American Wars -- 23. Who matters in AMerican history? -- 24. History did not begin with us.
Lecturer: Professor Mark A. Stoler, the University of Vermont.
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Excellent politics history submitted by OldMikie on September 26, 2015, 5:09pm The DVD series is excellent. Most of the incidents and people involved in USA history are or should be known to any 9th grader but the review of the maneuvering and the politicking of everybody including the founding fathers is nice. Well done.