The American revolution Parts I & II
(DVD Video, Book - Regular Print)

Course guidebook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, maps and battle plans, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.

Producer, Maya Laurinaitis Drake ; director, Jon Leven ; editor, David Ladd ; academic content supervisor, Pam Greer ; camera, Jim Allen, Tom Dooley, Alexis Doty, Lonnie Harrell.

Twenty-four lectures of thirty minutes each by Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Has there ever been a more unlikely war than the American Revolution? Why did those thirteen colonies, with nothing resembling a unified and trained army, and with no navy to speak of, believe they could defeat the most powerful nation on the planet? Why was Britain confident it could prevail despite crushing logistical burdens? This new course the American Revolution asks the crucial question: who really deserves the credit for defeating the British army? Was it the Continentals, gamely overcoming all odds? Was it the French, entering on the American side not purely out of friendship but also as a first step in converting Britain's colonies into their own? Alternatively, was it perhaps both of these factors--along with weather, terrain, timing, and sheer luck? Above all, why was the American Revolution really won not in America at all, but in the Caribbean?

DVD.