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A Biography of America
Publisher
Annenberg Learner (Firm)
Publication Date
[2000]
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the eVideo
Can You Write Outside Your Race? (3:30) --
Establishing an Identity (2:52) --
Finding Truth in Story Telling (3:36) --
Why is Truth So Important? (5:29) --
Framework of the Mind (4:09) --
Falling Out of History (1:43) --
Humane Imagination (2:16) --
Credits: The Redemptive Imagination: Episode 25-A Biography of America (0:30)
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American Character (1:19) --
Virginia and Massachusetts Bay Settlements (0:52) --
Jamestown Settlement (3:58) --
Virginia: Built on Smoke (2:35) --
Massachusetts' Pilgrims (3:41) --
Puritan Orthodoxy Faces Revolt (4:07) --
Puritan to Yankee Transformation (2:59) --
A System of Black Bondage (2:58) --
A Visual Footnote (0:23) --
Credits: English Settlement: Episode 2-A Biography of America (1:13)
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American Growth Pains (2:37) --
Manifest Destiny (3:13) --
Birth of Individualism (3:25) --
American Temperance Society (3:24) --
Second Great Awakening (4:32) --
Triumph of Principles (2:50) --
America Anti-Slavery Society (1:17) --
A Visual Footnote (2:29) --
Credits: The Reform Impulse: Episode 7-A Biography of America (0:29)
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Invasion of Okinawa (4:56) --
Thermal Hurricanes (4:19) --
Mass Production of Homes & Suburbanization (3:49) --
Beginning of the Cold War (2:16) --
Teenage Culture (2:13) --
Black Music (2:35) --
Birth of the Civil Rights Movement (4:02) --
Credits: The Fifties: Episode 22-A Biography of America (0:28)
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Economic Depression (3:11) --
FDR's New Deal (3:29) --
Historical Documentation (2:14) --
CCC Boys (2:48) --
Eleanor Roosevelt (2:05) --
New Racism (1:08) --
FDR's Challengers (1:28) --
Collective Action (5:30) --
Social Security (2:09) --
Credits: FDR and the Depression: Episode 20-A Biography of America (0:29)
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Historical Perspective (1:44) --
News Headlines: 1972 to 2000 (6:05) --
History with a Past and Future (1:52) --
America Today (3:51) --
Role of Government (2:49) --
Poverty Changes (2:44) --
Recent History (2:06) --
Footnote on Television, History, and Memory (2:34) --
Credits: Contemporary History: Episode 24-A Biography of America (0:28)
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Women's Declaration of Independence (1:21) --
War of Races (2:09) --
Historical Amnesia (4:06) --
American Agenda (3:09) --
Political Instability for Equal Rights (3:27) --
Cultural Ethos: Individualism & Competition (5:04) --
Realizing a Promise (1:41) --
A Visual Footnote (2:24) --
Credits: America at Its Centennial: Episode 21-A Biography of America (0:28)
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Roosevelt's America (3:48) --
Slater's Mill (5:26) --
Converting to Steam Power (2:25) --
Building of Chicago (3:06) --
Visionary Capitalists (3:11) --
Railroad King of the West (3:30) --
Raising a City (2:37) --
Credits: The Rise of Capitalism: Episode 6-A Biography of America (0:29)
From the eVideo
Slavery: Episode 8-A Biography of America: Introduction (1:24) --
North vs. South in the 1850s (2:57) --
Linking the North and South (2:06) --
Slave South, Early 1900s (2:52) --
Southern Plantation Myth (2:11) --
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (2:34) --
Resisting Enslavement (3:43) --
Slave Rebellion (2:36) --
Emancipation or War? (2:33) --
Visual Footnote (2:24) --
Credits: Slavery: Episode 8-A Biography of America (0:29)
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A New Birth of Freedom (5:29) --
Election Year (3:41) --
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination (1:57) --
High Hopes for Blacks (4:04) --
National Reconciliation (3:18) --
Racial Violence (3:57) --
Era of Second Slavery (1:35) --
Credits: Reconstruction: Episode 11-A Biography of America (0:29)
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American Revolution (1:01) --
Mystery of the Revolution (2:05) --
Stamp Act of 1765 (2:41) --
Boston Massacre of 1770 (3:37) --
Boston Under Military Rule (2:20) --
First Blows of the American Revolution (2:41) --
George Washington and "Common Sense" (4:21) --
Thomas Jefferson and The Deceleration of Independence (2:52) --
Establishment of the United States of America (3:41) --
Credits: The Coming of Independence: Episode 3-A Biography of America (0:28)
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Neo-Slavery (2:32) --
Carlisle Indian School (3:53) --
Asian American Struggle (2:35) --
Mexican Immigrants (2:52) --
Problem of the 20th Century (3:26) --
A Conversation with Miller, Scharff, & Martin (3:13) --
Risk Taking (3:22) --
Frederick Douglas (2:19) --
Credits: A Vital Progressivism: Episode 18-A Biography of America (0:29)
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Expanding West (4:15) --
Boom Towns & White Settlement (4:46) --
Indian Wars (1:59) --
Indians Doomed to Failure (1:33) --
Women: Unreliable Allies (3:01) --
Jeffersonian Vision of America (3:09) --
Battle Between City and Country (3:56) --
A Visual Footnote (1:46) --
Credits: The West: Episode 15-A Biography of America (0:28)
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Entering World War II (3:27) --
America in World War II (1:43) --
World War II Combat Memoirs (1:42) --
Holding off Defeat (1:38) --
American Mobilization (2:36) --
War Time Prosperity (1:58) --
Winged Victory (5:20) --
Ground Offensive in Europe (2:13) --
World War II Moral Questions (3:38) --
Credits: World War II: Episode 26-A Biography of America (0:30)
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A New System of Government (1:22) --
American Republic: An Experiment (5:29) --
American State Constitutions (3:04) --
Massachusetts' Constitutional Convention (3:24) --
Articles of Confederation (1:41) --
Journey of the Constitution (3:58) --
Constitution Compromises (3:35) --
Thomas Jefferson (2:45) --
Credits: A New System of Government: Episode 4-A Biography of America (0:28)
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One Million Casualties (3:28) --
War Tactics & Technology (2:27) --
North's Invasion Highway (3:53) --
Emancipation Proclamation (3:52) --
Vicksburg Campaign (3:13) --
Union Bombardment (4:15) --
Grant Brings Old Dixie Down (2:34) --
Credits: The Civil War: Episode 10-A Biography of America (0:31)
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Student Civil Rights Movement (3:06) --
Desegregation Direct Action (2:43) --
Great Society Vision (3:13) --
Civil Rights Betrayal (1:50) --
Vietnam War Origins (2:42) --
Entering the Vietnam War (2:13) --
Losing Popularity (2:24) --
Anti-War Movement (3:14) --
Defeat in Vietnam and at Home (2:56) --
Credits: The Sixties: Episode 23-A Biography of America (0:30)
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Great Uprising (2:14) --
American Industrial City (3:58) --
Assembly Line (3:58) --
Supply & Demand (3:02) --
Steel: Wonder Material (3:15) --
Packinghouse Work and Packingtown (5:15) --
Metal Frame Skyscraper (2:00) --
Credits: Industrial Supremacy: Episode 13-A Biography of America (0:30)
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What is the American? (3:40) --
Forced Migration (2:48) --
Repression Equals Autonomy (3:36) --
Philadelphia: A Holy Experiment (4:15) --
Slavery and Economic Democracy (2:10) --
Dignity of Labor (2:40) --
Benjamin Franklin's Creations (5:06) --
Credits: Growth and Empire: Episode 12-A Biography of America (0:29)
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Westward Expansion (1:37) --
Thomas Jefferson's Vision (3:39) --
Empire of Liberty (4:20) --
Great Migration (2:34) --
The Canal Era (3:35) --
North & South Economics (3:36) --
Southern Economic Isolation (5:55) --
Credits: Westward Expansion: Episode 5-A Biography of America (0:28)
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United States' Rise to Power (3:44) --
Conflict Between Capital and Labor (1:49) --
Foreign Policy (2:33) --
Presidency as Absolute Power (2:49) --
Freedom of Economics (3:19) --
Wilson as Savior (2:20) --
League of Nations (1:18) --
International Powerhouse (0:35) --
Proving Americanism (5:36) --
Credits: TR and Wilson: Episode 17-A Biography of America (0:30)
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America Transitions Power (2:42) --
Slums of New York (2:58) --
Rise of Capitalism (3:22) --
Morgan's Power (2:15) --
Coal Mining (3:09) --
Quality of Life (2:02) --
Unionization (2:02) --
Lattimer Massacre (2:07) --
Coal Miners Strike (2:59) --
Credits: Capital and Labor: Episode 16-A Biography of America (0:30)
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Northern Freedom vs. Southern Slavery (3:29) --
Great Triumvirate (3:14) --
Horror of Slavery (3:34) --
Sympathy for Anti-Slavery (2:36) --
Reality of Southern Succession (4:00) --
American Civil War (3:29) --
Freedmon for All is Self-Evident (3:41) --
Credits: The Coming of the Civil War: Episode 9-A Biography of America (0:29)
From the eVideo
Los Angeles: Auto Age City (3:14) --
Production Line (3:00) --
Tin Lizzie: A Status Symbol (2:18) --
A Ford Whisper (3:30) --
Automobile Industry Competition (1:54) --
Urban Flight (4:26) --
City of Freedom (1:39) --
Birth of Hollywood (4:00) --
Credit: The Twenties: Episode 19-A Biography of America (0:30)
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A Definition of History (1:03) --
Series Introduction Credits: New World Encounters: Episode 1-A Biography of America (0:57) --
Meet the Historians (3:21) --
Christopher Columbus (2:49) --
Earliest American Presence (2:35) --
Spanish Conquest (2:03) --
Christopher Columbus: A Historical Error (1:49) --
Hernando de Soto's Invasion (3:53) --
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado's Invasion (1:45) --
Pueblo Indian Rebellion (2:44) --
17th Century North American Colonies (2:21) --
Credits: New World Encounters: Episode 1-A Biography of America (0:28)
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World's Columbian Exposition (2:44) --
Industrial Urban Model (3:22) --
Skyscraper Efficiency (2:23) --
Consumer Culture (2:54) --
Chicago Transportation (2:43) --
Streetcar City (2:30) --
Ethnic Ghettos and Reformers (2:45) --
White City Symbolism (2:11) --
Colored People's Day (2:27) --
Credits: The New City: Episode 14-A Biography of America (0:30)
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Chicago (Ill.)
Depressions
Depressions -- 1929
History
Internet videos
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Nineteen fifties
Nineteen sixties
Nineteen twenties
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- (Franklin Delano), -- 1882-1945
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roosevelt, Theodore, -- 1858-1919
Social life and customs
United States -- History -- Biography
United States -- Social life and customs
West (U.S.)
Wilson, Woodrow
Wilson, Woodrow, -- 1856-1924
World War, 1939-1945
Depressions
Depressions -- 1929
History
Internet videos
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Nineteen fifties
Nineteen sixties
Nineteen twenties
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- (Franklin Delano), -- 1882-1945
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roosevelt, Theodore, -- 1858-1919
Social life and customs
United States -- History -- Biography
United States -- Social life and customs
West (U.S.)
Wilson, Woodrow
Wilson, Woodrow, -- 1856-1924
World War, 1939-1945
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