The skeptic's guide to American history
By: The Teaching Company
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: The Great courses. Modern history; Great courses (DVD)
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9781598038576
Subjects: Politics and government; DVD videodisc; History
Other titles: American history
Description: For most Americans, the history of the United States is built on a set of long-accepted beliefs about events, each of which resonates in the nation's collective memory. But what if those beliefs, however familiar, don't really tell the whole story? Our knowledge of history - or what we believe to be history - is the lens through which we view and interpret the world. And when that lens is distorted with misleading information, it has powerful effects on how we perceive the present and how we make decisions in the future, from choosing whom to vote for to interpreting the latest developments in today's news and opinion pieces.
Notes: Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on 4 discs.

Course guide book including lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes and bibliography.

"Course No. 8588."

Lecturer: Professor Mark A. Stoler, the University of Vermont.

DVD, NTSC.
Table of contents: title: Disc 1: 1.; title: Religious toleration in Colonial America? -- -- 2.; title: Neither American nor Revolutionary? -- -- 3.; title: The constitution did not create a democracy -- -- 4.; title: Washington : failures -- -- 5.; title: Confusions about Jefferson and Hamilton -- -- 6.; title: Andrews Jackson : an odd symbol of democracy -- -- Disc 2: 7.; title: The second great awakening: enduring impacts -- -- 8.; title: Did slavery really cause the Civil War? -- -- 9.; title: The Civil War's actual turning points -- -- 10.; title: The myth of Laisses-Faire -- -- 11.; title: Misconceptions about the original populists -- -- 12.; title: Labor in America : a strange history -- -- Disc 3: 13.; title: Myths about American isolation and empire -- -- 14.; title: Early progressives were not liberals -- -- 15.; title: Woodrow Wilson and the rating of presidents -- -- 16.; title: The roaring Twenties reconsidered -- -- 17.; title: Hoover and the Great Depression revisited -- -- 18.; title: What did Roosevelt's New Deal really do? -- -- Disc 4: 19.; title: World War II misconceptions and myths -- -- 20.; title: Was the Cold War inevitable? -- -- 21.; title: The real blunders of the Vietnam War -- -- 22.; title: Myths about American Wars -- -- 23.; title: Who matters in American history? -- -- 24.; title: History did not begin with us.