History of the United States, 2nd Edition (Audiobook) | Date: 12 April 2011, 03:35
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This is the story of a country in which immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries huddled in cramped tenement apartments lit by hazardous kerosene lamps. And a country that, little more than a half-century later, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith described as "The Affluent Society."
This is the chronicle of a nation that enslaved a race of people. And of a nation that fought a Civil War that freed its slaves, and outlawed segregation and discrimination.
This is history shaped by Revolutionary War and Vietnam, Thomas Jefferson and William Jefferson Clinton, Puritanism and Feminism, Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King, Jamestown and Disneyland, Harpers Ferry and Henry Ford, oil wells and Orson Welles.
This is a review of the extraordinary blend of people, ideas, inventions, and events that comprise The History of the United States. In this seven-part, 84-lecture series, three noted historians and lecturers—two of whom teach other popular Teaching Company courses—present the nation's past through their areas of special interest.
[b]Three Outstanding Instructors in this Sweeping Series[/b]
This comprehensive presentation is provided by three award-winning professors:
[list][*]Dr. Allen C. Guelzo is Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era, Professor of History at Gettysburg College, and former Dean of Templeton Honors College at Eastern University. He examines the beginnings of European settlement through the Great Compromise of 1850. His teaching awards include the Dean's Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching from the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President , won the Lincoln Prize and the Book Prize of the Abraham Lincoln Institute of the Mid-Atlantic.
[*]Dr. Gary W. Gallagher is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia and a top Civil War expert. He presents the pre-Civil War period through Reconstruction. His teaching, which includes personal guided tours of major battlefields, has consistently won high praise from students, and he is a frequent lecturer and author. He also teaches the Great Course The American Civil War.
[*]Dr. Patrick N. Allitt, Professor of History at Emory University, discusses 19th-century industrialization through the early 21st century. In 2000 he was appointed to the National Endowment for the Humanities/Arthur Blank Professorship of Teaching in the Humanities, and recently received the Emory Center for Teaching and Curriculum's Excellence in Teaching Award. He also teaches The Great Courses Victorian Britain and American Religious History.
[/list]With their guidance you will follow, as they unfold over time, the factors that have enabled the United States to become the largest, wealthiest, and most powerful democratic republic in history. These factors include its:
[list][*]Sense of confidence, national destiny, and exceptionalism
[*]Religiosity and belief in virtue
[*]Abundance of natural resources and entrepreneurial talent
[*]Ability to accept a diverse array of immigrants
[*]Success in turning the theory of democracy into reality.
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[hide=Course Lecture Titles][list][*]1. Living Bravely
[*]2. Spain, France, and the Netherlands
[*]3. Gentlemen in the Wilderness
[*]4. Radicals in the Wilderness
[*]5. Traders in the Wilderness
[*]6. An Economy of Slaves
[*]7. Printers, Painters, and Preachers
[*]8. The Great Awakening
[*]9. The Great War for Empire
[*]10. The Rejection of Empire
[*]11. The American Revolution—Politics and People
[*]12. The American Revolution—Howe's War
[*]13. The American Revolution—Washington's War
[*]14. Creating the Constitution
[*]15. Hamilton's Republic
[*]16. Republicans and Federalists
[*]17. Adams and Liberty
[*]18. The Jeffersonian Reaction
[*]19. Territory and Treason
[*]20. The Agrarian Republic
[*]21. The Disastrous War of 1812
[*]22. The "American System"
[*]23. A Nation Announcing Itself
[*]24. National Republican Follies
[*]25. The Second Great Awakening
[*]26. Dark Satanic Mills
[*]27. The Military Chieftain
[*]28. The Politics of Distrust
[*]29. The Monster Bank
[*]30. Whigs and Democrats
[*]31. American Romanticism
[*]32. The Age of Reform
[*]33. Southern Society and the Defense of Slavery
[*]34. Whose Manifest Destiny?
[*]35. The Mexican War
[*]36. The Great Compromise
[*]37. Sectional Tensions Escalate
[*]38. Drifting Toward Disaster
[*]39. The Coming of War
[*]40. The First Year of Fighting
[*]41. Shifting Tides of Battle
[*]42. Diplomatic Clashes and Sustaining the War
[*]43. Behind the Lines—Politics and Economies
[*]44. African Americans in Wartime
[*]45. The Union Drive to Victory
[*]46. Presidential Reconstruction
[*]47. Congress Takes Command
[*]48. Reconstruction Ends
[*]49. Industrialization
[*]50. Transcontinental Railroads
[*]51. The Last Indian Wars
[*]52. Farming the Great Plains
[*]53. African Americans after Reconstruction
[*]54. Men and Women
[*]55. Religion in Victorian America
[*]56. The Populists
[*]57. The New Immigration
[*]58. City Life
[*]59. Labor and Capital
[*]60. Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism
[*]61. Mass Production
[*]62. World War I—The Road to Intervention
[*]63. World War I—Versailles and Wilson's Gambit
[*]64. The 1920s
[*]65. The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression
[*]66. The New Deal
[*]67. World War II—The Road to Pearl Harbor
[*]68. World War II—The European Theater
[*]69. World War II—The Pacific Theater
[*]70. The Cold War
[*]71. The Korean War and McCarthyism
[*]72. The Affluent Society
[*]73. The Civil Rights Movement
[*]74. The New Frontier and the Great Society
[*]75. The Rise of Mass Media
[*]76. The Vietnam War
[*]77. The Women's Movement
[*]78. Nixon and Watergate
[*]79. Environmentalism
[*]80. Religion in Twentieth-Century America
[*]81. Carter and the Reagan Revolution
[*]82. The New World Order
[*]83. Clinton's America and the Millennium
[*]84. Reflections
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