| Description |
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + course guidebook + transcript book |
| Series |
The Great courses. Modern history |
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Great courses (DVD). Modern history.
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| Note |
24 of 30 minute lectures on 4 discs. |
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Course guide book including lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes and bibliography. |
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"Course No. 8588." |
| Contents |
disc 1: Religious toleration in Colonial America? -- Neither American nor Revolutionary? -- The constitution did not create a democracy -- Washington: failures and real accomplishments -- Confusions about Jefferson and Hamilton -- Andrews Jackson: an odd symbol of democracy -- disc 2: The second great awakening: enduring impacts -- Did slavery really cause the Civil War? -- The Civil War's actual turning points -- The myth of laisses-faire -- Misconceptions about the original populists -- Labor in America: a strange history -- disc 3: Myths about American isolation and empire -- Early progressives were not liberals -- Woodrow Wilson and the rating of presidents -- The roaring twenties reconsidered -- Hoover and the Great Depression revisited -- What did Roosevelt's New Deal really do? -- disc 4: World War II misconceptions and myths -- Was the Cold War inevitable? -- he real blunders of the Vietnam War -- Myths about American Wars -- Who matters in AMerican history? -- History did not begin with us. |
| Performer |
Lecturer: Professor Mark A. Stoler, the University of Vermont. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Subject |
DVD-Video discs.
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United States -- History.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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| Added Author |
Stoler, Mark A.
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1598038575 |
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9781598038576 |
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