Early American history
Subtitle: Native Americans through the forty-niners
By: The Teaching Company
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses (DVD). Modern history; Great courses (DVD)
Publisher: The Teaching Company
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Chantilly, VA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 900
ISBN-13: 9781565859739; 9791565859738
Subjects: Industrial revolution; Frontier and pioneer life; Piracy; Great Awakening; Mexican War, 1846-1848; Slavery; United States; Colonists; Witches; Enlightenment; History; Study and teaching (Secondary); Catholics; Modern History; Mormons; Pre-Columbian; Quakers; Puritans; Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony); Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Native Americans through the forty-niners
Description: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the visual aid for these lectures--they are delivered in period costumes and as characters who illustrate the life of their times. With his firm grasp of the details of historical epochs, Professor Thompson's characters allow students to sit back, relax, and learn enjoyably--despite the magnitude of material presented.
Notes: Course workbook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lesson outlines, both comprehensive and essay questions for each lesson with answers, and bibliography.

Thirty thirty minute lectures by Professor Linwood Thompson of Bellflower High School, Los Angeles, California.

Originally produced in 1995.

DVD.
Table of contents: title: pt.1, Lessons 1-10.  Pre Columbian America; title: Discovery and exploration of America; title: The Virginia Colony; title: Pilgrims and Puritans; title: Other European Colonies; title: Witches, Quakers, and Catholics; title: Life in Colonial America; title: Swashbucklers, Smugglers, and Slavers; title: The Great Awakening and Englightenment; title: Wars with France; title: pt.2, Lessons 11-20. Seeds of Revolution and War; title: Men of the Revolution; title: Declaration of Independence; title: Revolutionary War - On Land and Sea; title: The National Government and the War's End; title: Stretching the Western Boundaries; title: The Constitution; title: Washington and the New Government; title: French and American Revolutions; title: Dividing the Patriots - The Two Party System; title: pt.3, Lessons 21-30. Era of Jefferson; title: War Hawks, Indians, and the War of 1812; title: Industrial Revolution; title: Cities and the Transportation Revolution; title: Era of Jackson; title: Texas; title: The Trails West; title: Colonizing the West - The Mormons; title: Mexican Territories and War; title: West to  California.