TTC - History of the United States (2nd Edition)

The Teaching Company -------------------- History of the United States, 2nd Edition (84 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by Patrick N. Allitt, Gary W. Gallagher, Allen C. Guelzo 42 Audio CDs Quality 80 kbps 32kHz MP3 Course Lecture Titles --------------------- Living Bravely Spain, France, and the Netherlands Gentlemen in the Wilderness Radicals in the Wilderness Traders in the Wilderness An Economy of Slaves Printers, Painters, and Preachers The Great Awakening The Great War for Empire The Rejection of Empire The American Revolution?Politics and People The American Revolution?Howe's War The American Revolution?Washington's War Creating the Constitution Hamilton's Republic Republicans and Federalists Adams and Liberty The Jeffersonian Reaction Territory and Treason The Agrarian Republic The Disastrous War of 1812 The "American System" A Nation Announcing Itself National Republican Follies The Second Great Awakening Dark Satanic Mills The Military Chieftain The Politics of Distrust The Monster Bank Whigs and Democrats American Romanticism The Age of Reform Southern Society and the Defense of Slavery Whose Manifest Destiny? The Mexican War The Great Compromise Sectional Tensions Escalate Drifting Toward Disaster The Coming of War The First Year of Fighting Shifting Tides of Battle Diplomatic Clashes and Sustaining the War Behind the Lines?Politics and Economies African Americans in Wartime The Union Drive to Victory Presidential Reconstruction Congress Takes Command Reconstruction Ends Industrialization Transcontinental Railroads The Last Indian Wars Farming the Great Plains African Americans after Reconstruction Men and Women Religion in Victorian America The Populists The New Immigration City Life Labor and Capital Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism Mass Production World War I?The Road to Intervention World War I?Versailles and Wilson's Gambit The 1920s The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression The New Deal World War II?The Road to Pearl Harbor World War II?The European Theater World War II?The Pacific Theater The Cold War The Korean War and McCarthyism The Affluent Society The Civil Rights Movement The New Frontier and the Great Society The Rise of Mass Media The Vietnam War The Women's Movement Nixon and Watergate Environmentalism Religion in Twentieth-Century America Carter and the Reagan Revolution The New World Order Clinton's America and the Millennium Reflections This is the story of a country in which immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries huddled in cramped tenement apartments lit by hazardous kerosene lamps. And a country that, little more than a half-century later, a renowned economist described as "The Affluent Society." This is the chronicle of a nation that enslaved an entire race of people to perform its labor. 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 lecturers?two of whom teach other popular Teaching Company courses?present the nation's past through their areas of special interest. Three Outstanding Instructors in This Sweeping Series This sweeping presentation is provided by three award-winning professors: Dr. Allen C. Guelzo is Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Professor of History at Gettysburg College, and former Dean of Templeton Honors College at Eastern University, examines the beginnings of European settlement through the Great Compromise of 1850. His teaching awards include the Dean's Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching from the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (1999), won the Lincoln Prize and the Book Prize of the Abraham Lincoln Institute of the Mid-Atlantic. Dr. Gary W. Gallagher is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia and a top Civil War expert. Dr. Gallagher presents the pre-Civil War period through Reconstruction. His teaching, which includes personal guided tours of major battlefields, has consistently won high praise from students, and he is a frequent lecturer and author. He also teaches the Great Course The American Civil War. Dr. Patrick N. Allitt, Professor of History at Emory University, discusses 19th-century industrialization through the early 21st century. In 2000 he was appointed to the National Endowment for the Humanities/Arthur Blank Professorship of Teaching in the Humanities, and recently received the Emory Center for Teaching and Curriculum's Excellence in Teaching Award. He also teaches The Great Courses Victorian Britain and American Religious History. With their guidance you will follow, as they unfold over time, factors that have enabled the United States to become the largest, wealthiest, and most powerful democratic republic in history. These include its sense of confidence, national destiny, and exceptionalism; religiosity and belief in virtue; abundance of natural resources and entrepreneurial talent; ability to accept a diverse array of immigrants; and, as important as anything else, success in making democracy a reality rather than a theory. What You Will Learn: A Voyage of Discovery In the opening lecture, Professor Guelzo describes this course as "a voyage of discovery. Not a voyage to another continent or another hemisphere or even a trip to another planet, but to something which may be even stranger, and that is the history of the United States." You will explore a past America often different from what you were taught or have imagined. You will understand historical fact versus fiction when it comes to figures as diverse as: Jacques Cartier. As early as 1534, he was "surprised to sight Indians, along what he thought was an unexplored Atlantic coastline, waving furs on sticks as an invitation for the Europeans to come down to the beach and trade." James Monroe and Robert Livingston. They made the Louisiana Purchase, the greatest real estate deal in history, without approval from then President Thomas Jefferson (they had no time to tell him). Jefferson, in turn, had no constitutional authority to make the treaty of cession that finalized the purchase. He sent the document to the Senate with the comment, "The less we say about Constitutional difficulties the better." Carrie Nation. The fiery temperance advocate hired a publicity manager to arrange media coverage before she invaded and smashed up a saloon. She even sold autographed copies of the axes she used. Isaac Singer. This sewing machine magnate pioneered such now universal business techniques as installment-plan payments and nationwide advertising. You will learn which novel was the most influential in U.S. history (hint: its female author once met Abraham Lincoln); why the west side became the best place to live in many older U.S. cities (prevailing winds blew smoke and fumes away from you); and what The Wizard of Oz is really about (the election of 1896). Reading History "Forward" An additional benefit of this course is that, as they present U.S. history, Professors Guelzo, Gallagher, and Allitt also provide a mini-course on teaching and learning history in general. They convey a variety of highly useful lessons on how to think about history, place it in a proper perspective, and understand it accurately. These include an emphasis on the social and political context in which vital decisions were made and events took place, and an ability to take both the short-term and long-term views of issues. In his lectures on the Civil War and Reconstruction, Professor Gallagher warns that the fact that we know how history turned out, that we "read history backward," often distorts our understanding. Repeatedly, he reminds you to "read forward, not backward," to try to understand how people of the past experienced events as they unfolded. Successes Too Often Taken for Granted Professor Allitt reflects on the aspects of U.S. history that make it unique and noteworthy, and which indicate the degree to which the nation has lived up to its ideals. He notes that America may fall short of its own high standards, "but compared to the other actual nations of the world, America was far more impressive for its successes than for its failings." Some of these successes, Professor Allitt adds, are so obvious that we often fail to recognize them. The poverty that exists in the U.S. is of a relative kind; it would not be recognized as poverty in most of the rest of the world. In addition, the U.S. has achieved an exceptional degree of political stability and internal civil peace for a very long time. "We're so familiar with it that it's easy to forget how rare it is," Professor Allitt notes. This is one of the many vital and often overlooked aspects of U.S. history that this course will help you to appreciate. Throughout the nation's existence, even during the Civil War, democracy has always worked. Elections have always taken place, the losers have always accepted that they have lost and left office, and the military has never tried to overthrow the civilian government. Perhaps this is a legacy of the most popular and revered American ever, George Washington. At the end of the Revolutionary War, some of Washington's officers suggested that the Continental Army should take over the country and make him the first King of America. Washington flatly rejected the offer, resigned his commission, and rode off to his home in Mount Vernon. The notion that anyone could refuse power in this manner shocked Britain's King George III. "If this is true," the king said, "then he is the greatest man of the age." and you WILL HELP SEED this... - BhangWalla -

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wayeshe (2006-10-19)

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The Teaching Company
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History of the United States, 2nd Edition
(84 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)

 BhangWalla (2006-11-21)

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erxi (2007-02-04)

Holy crap! :O
Hope I manage to download this one.

catchow58 (2007-07-22)

Oh yes... if I manage to get this one, I will gladly help seed it!

catchow58 (2007-07-31)

Thi8s is truly wonderful, and thank you. If anyone can upload the outline that goes with it, it would be greatly appreciated... but damn, based on the first eight lectures, this is a super fine torrent!

sam322 (2008-01-08)

History of the United States:

Schmegg (2008-02-13)

thanks

subnivian (2008-05-06)

thanks a bunch,
not my favorite series though, the lectures on the period after the civil war seems forced. i think you can do better with the lectures from UC Berkley's podcast.
the first two thirds of the series are much better

paratwa (2008-05-28)

thank you, bhangwalla

IGotDMCA (2010-02-01)

I strongly recommend people not share this. I got a DMCA letter from them. They will enforce protection of their copyrights. Their stuff is high quality but I chose to delete it all after I got the letter.

gmeades (2011-09-15)

sam322 is a jerk. Putting a link to "The International Jew: The Worlds Foremost Problem" as a reference for the history of the United States is pure ignorance. Henry Ford was sued, and was found guilty of slander and spreading false information because of this document, you twit. other than as insight to that situation the document is otherwise not useful, as it is not based upon truth, at all. It was based upon "The Elders of Zion" which was a false document itself (look it up on wiki, and read most if not all of it for more insight into this trash). Moron.

Drbj69 (2011-10-10)

henry ford was right for some reason he owned the ford company and knew what was coming to america Bernard Madoff stole billions of dollars and now the economy is so bad what about AIPAC? the biggest lobby in the nation are you blind or you just watch the mainstream media, you know who owns it? you are smart enough

slmndow (2012-06-05)

Thanks!

Swamppony (2014-11-05)

Thanks so much!

kakakiki05 (2014-11-30)

Seed please,
Thank you