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DVD

The skeptic's guide to American history.

Author

Call Number

DVD 973 S6277 (CEN)

Performers

Taught by Professor Mark A. Stoler, the University of Vermont.

Publication Information

Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, c2012.

Physical Description

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Notes

"Course no. 8588"--Disc label.

Contains 24 lectures, 30 min. per lecture.

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.

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