num_pages: 44
description: 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 lecturerstwo of whom teach other popular Teaching Company coursespresent the nation's past through their areas of special interest.
language: English
title: The History of the United States
publisher: The Teaching Company