| Description |
12 audio discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 180 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.). |
| Playing Time |
120000 |
| Series |
Great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Lecturer: Professor Mark A. Stoler, University of Vermont. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-180 of guidebook). |
| Note |
24 lectures, 30-minutes each. |
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Compact discs. |
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In container (19 cm.). |
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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? -- Disc 2: 3. The constitution did not create a democracy ; Washington: failures and real accomplishments -- Disc 3. 5. Confusions about Jefferson and Hamilton ; 6. Andrew Jackson: an odd symbol of democracy -- Disc 4: 7. The second great awakening: enduring impacts ; 8. Did slavery really cause the Civil War? -- Disc 5: 9. The Civil War's actual turning points ; 10. The myth of laissez-faire -- Disc 6: 11. Misconceptions about the original populists ; 12. Labor in America: a strange history -- Disc 7: 13. Myths about American isolation and empire ; 14. Early progressives were not liberals -- Disc 8: 15. Woodrow Wilson and the rating of presidents ; 16. The roaring Twenties reconsidered -- Disc 9: 17. Hoover and the Great Depression revisited ; 18. What did Roosevelt's New Deal really do? -- Disc 10: 19. World War II misconceptions and myths ; 20. Was the Cold War inevitable? -- Disc 11: 21. The real blunders of the Vietnam War ; 22. Myths about American wars -- Disc 12: 23. Who matters in American history? ; 24. History did not begin with us. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
United States -- History.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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Political science. (OCoLC)fst01069781
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Educational films.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
9781598038569 |
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1598038567 |
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