The history of the United States [videorecording] /

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tape 1. Living bravely -- Spain, France, and the Netherlands -- Gentlemen in the wilderness -- Radicals in the wilderness -- Traders in the wilderness -- An economy of slaves -- tape 2. Printers, painters, and preachers -- The Great Awakening -- The great war for empire -- The rejection of empire -- The American Revolution : politics and people -- The American Revolution : Howe's war -- tape 3. The American Revolution : Washington's war -- Creating the Constitution -- Hamilton's republic -- Republicans and federalism -- Adams and liberty -- The Jeffersonian reaction -- tape 4. Territory and treason --The agrarian republic -- The disastrous War of 1812 -- The "American System" -- A nation announcing itself -- National republican follies -- tape 5. The second great awakening -- Dark satanic mills -- The military chieftain -- The politics of distrust -- The monster bank -- Whigs and Democrats -- tape 6. American romanticism -- The age of reform -- Southern society and the defense of slavery -- Whose Manifest Destiny? -- The Mexican War -- The Great Compromise -- tape 7. Sectional tensions escalate -- Drifting toward disaster -- The coming of war -- The first year of fighting --Shifting tides of battle -- Diplomatic clashes and sustaining the war -- tape 8. Behind the lines : politics and economies -- African Americans in wartime -- The Union drive to victory -- Presidential reconstruction -- Congress takes command -- Reconstruction ends -- tape 9. Industrialization -- Transcontinental railroads -- The last Indian wars -- Farming the Great Plains -- African Americans after Reconstruction -- Men and women -- tape 10. Religion in Victorian America -- The Populists -- The new immigration -- City life -- Labor and capital -- Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism -- tape 11. Mass production -- World War I : the road to intervention -- World War I : Versailles and Wilson's gambit -- The 1920s -- The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression -- The New Deal -- tape 12. World War II : the road to Pearl Harbor -- World War II : the European theater -- World War II : the Pacific theater -- The Cold War -- The Korean War and McCarthyism -- The affluent society -- tape 13. The Civil Rights Movement -- The New Frontier and the Great Society -- The rise of mass media -- The Vietnam War -- The Women's Movement -- Nixon and Watergate -- tape 14. Environmentalism -- Religion in twentieth century America -- Carter and the Reagan Revolution -- The new world order -- Clinton's America and the millennium -- Reflections.

This 84-lecture series (30 min. ea.) features three top professors sharing insights into this nation's past, from European settlement and Revolutionary War through Civil War, 19th centure industrialization, world wars, and today.