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A Biography of America
 
 
Presents American history as a living narrative rather than a collection of facts and dates. Video series for college and high school classrooms and adult learners.
26 half-hour video programs, coordinated books, and Web site

Closed Caption     ISBN: 1-57680-202-7
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1. New World Encounters

July 16, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 18, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

2. English Settlement

July 16, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 18, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

3. Growth and Empire

July 17, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 19, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

4. The Coming of Independence

July 17, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 19, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

5. A New System of Government

July 18, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 20, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

6. Westward Expansion

July 18, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 20, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

7. The Rise of Capitalism

July 19, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 21, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

8. The Reform Impulse

July 19, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 21, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

9. Slavery

July 20, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 22, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

10. The Coming of the Civil War

July 20, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 22, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

11. The Civil War

July 21, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 23, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

12. Reconstruction

July 21, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 23, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

13. America at Its Centennial

July 22, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 24, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

14. Industrial Supremacy

July 22, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 24, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

15. The New City

July 23, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 25, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

16. The West

July 23, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 25, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

17. Capital and Labor

July 24, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 26, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

18. TR and Wilson

July 24, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 26, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

19. A Vital Progressivism

July 25, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 27, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

20. The Twenties

July 25, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 27, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

21. FDR and the Depression

July 26, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 28, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

22. World War II

July 26, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 28, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

23. The Fifties

July 27, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 29, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

24. The Sixties

July 27, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 29, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

25. Contemporary History

July 28, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 30, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

26. The Redemptive Imagination

July 28, 2008 - 10:00 am Eastern
September 30, 2008 - 2:00 pm Eastern

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