| Description |
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (180 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.). |
| Series |
The Great courses. Modern history |
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Great courses (DVD). Modern history.
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| System Details |
DVD. |
| Performer |
Lecturer: Professor Mark A. Stoler, the University of Vermont. |
| 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: 1. Religious toleration in Colonial America? -- 2. Neither American nor Revolutionary? -- 3. The constitution did not create a democracy -- 4. Washington: failures -- 5. Confusions about Jefferson and Hamilton -- 6. Andrews Jackson: an odd symbol of democracy -- Disc 2: 7. The second great awakening: enduring impacts -- 8. Did slavery really cause the Civil War? -- 9. Th Civil War's actual turning points -- 10. The myth of Laisses-Faire -- 11. Misconceptions about the original populists -- 12. Labor in AMerica: a strange history -- Disc 3: 13. Myths about American isolation and empire -- 14. Early progressives were not liberals -- 15. Woodrow Wilson and the rating of presidents -- 16. The roaring Twenties reconsidered -- 17. Hoover and the Great Depression revisited -- 18. What did Roosevelt's New Deal really do? -- Disc 4: 19. World War II misconceptions and myths -- 20. Was the Cold War inevitable? -- 21. The real blunders of the Vietnam War -- 22. Myths about American Wars -- 23. Who matters in AMerican history? -- 24. History did not begin with us. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
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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