Turning Points in American History

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Call Number: BOCD 973 O'D Oversize
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Course no. 8580.
Lecture 1. 1617, the great epidemic -- Lecture 2. 1619, land of the free? Slavery begins -- Lecture 3. 1636, freedom of worship - Roger Williams -- Lecture 4. 1654, yearning to breathe free - immigration -- Lecture 5. 1676, near disaster - King Philip's war -- Lecture6. 1735, freedom of the press - the Zenger trial -- Lecture 7. 1773, liberty! The Boston tea party -- Lecture 8. 1776, we're outta here - declaring independence -- Lecture 9. 1777, game changer - the battle of Saratoga -- Lecture 10. 1786, toward a constitution - Shay's rebellion -- Lecture 11. 1789, Samuel Slater - the industrial revolution -- Lecture 12. 1800, the peaceful transfer -- Lecture 13. 1803, Supreme authority - Marbury v. Madison -- Lecture 14. 1807, on the move - transportation revolution -- Lecture 15. One man, one vote - expanding suffrage -- Lecture 16. 1821, reborn - the second great awakening -- Lecture 17. 1831, the righteous crusade - abolition -- Lecture 18. 1844, what's new - the communication revolution -- Lecture 19. 1845, the ultimate American game - baseball -- Lecture 20. 1846, land and gold - the Mexican war -- Lecture 21. 1862, go West, young man! The homestead act -- Lecture 22. 1862, the terrible reality - the battle of Antietam -- Lecture 23. 1868, equal protection - the 14th amendment -- Lecture 24. 1872, open spaces - the national parks.
Lecture 25. 1873, bloody Sunday - ending reconstruction -- Lecture 26. 1876, How the West was won and lost - Custer -- Lecture 27. 1886, the first red scare - Haymarket -- Lecture 28. 1898, the end of isolation - war with Spain -- Lecture 29. 1900, the promised land - the great migration -- Lecture 30. 1901, that damned cowboy! Theodore Roosevelt -- Lecture 31. 1903, the second transportation revolution -- Lecture 32. 1909, the scourge of the South - hookworm -- Lecture 33. 1917, votes for women! The 19th amendment -- Lecture 34. 1919, strikes and bombs - the year of upheaval -- Lecture 35. 1933, bold experimentation - the New Deal -- Lecture 36. 1939, Einstein's letter - the Manhattan Project -- Lecture 37. 1942, surprise - the battle of Midway -- Lecture38. 1945, the land of lawns - suburbanization -- Lecture 39. 1948, the Berlin Airlift and the Cold War -- Lecture 40. 1950, tuning in - the birth of television -- Lecture 41. 1960, the power to choose - the pill -- Lecture 42. 1963, showdown in Birmingham - civil rights -- Lecture 43. 1968, losing Vietnam - the Tet Offensive -- Lecture 44. 1969, disaster - the birth of environmentalism -- Lecture 45. 1974, an age of crisis - Watergate -- Lecture 46. 1975, the digital age - the personal computer -- Lecture 47. Collapse - the end of the Cold War -- Lecture 48. 2001, the age of terror - the 9/11 attacks.
Turning Points in American History is your chance to relive the most powerful and groundbreaking moments in the fascinating story of the United States of America. These 48 lectures, delivered by masterful historian and dynamic Professor Edward T. O'Donnell of College of the Holy Cross, offer you a different perspective on the sweeping narrative of U. S. history. Spanning the arrival of the first English colonists to the chaos of the Civil War to the birth of the computer age and beyond, this course is a captivating and comprehensive tour of those particular moments in the story of America, after which the nation would never be the same again.

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