DVD
The skeptic's guide to American history.
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.