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Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the visual aid for these lectures--they are delivered in period...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"This course is designed to introduce students to a uniquely American invention and, to some ways of thinking, a wonderfully naïve contribution to politics: the written specification of individual liberties and rights that citizens possess and can, through courts, enforce against the state. Civil Liberties is not, however, a course on law. It is, instead, a course that has as its subject the relationship of law to the most fundamental sorts of questions...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Presents a comprehensive of the American Revolution, from early settlement of the continent, through the crises of the 1760's and the 1770's, to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and finally to the election of 1800. Also examines the role played by African Americans and Native Americans.
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Lectures by Dr. David Christian, Professor of History at San Diego State University. Surveys the past at all possible scales, from conventional history, to the much larger scales of biology and geology, to the universal scales of cosmology.
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
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...
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
History is made not only by kings, queens, presidents, and generals, but equally by inventors and the technological powers they unleash. This course explores the inventions that have changed the world from prehistoric times to the 21st century. Along with recounting famous inventions such as the steam engine, airplane, atomic bomb and computer chip, these lectures explore a number of surprising innovations, including beer, pagodas, indoor plumbing...
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Many of the most decisive turning points in the history of the world have been battles. More than just conflicts between armies, such moments often represent fundamental clashes among rival religions; cultures; and social, political, and economic systems. The outcomes of these battles have dramatically transformed and shaped the course of history, often sending it on unexpected or completely new paths. This course examines more than three dozen...
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