The History of the United States

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Originally released in 2003.
Accompanied by course guidebook with same title.
Eighty-four 30 minute lectures in seven containers (19 cm.)
Guide includes lecture notes and outlines, timeline, glossary, biographical notes and bibliography.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Taught by: Professor Allen C. Guelzo, Eastern University, Professor Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia, Professor Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University.
Chronicles the history of the United States from colonial origins to the beginning of the 21st century.
DVD format.

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