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Compact disc

24 lectures, 30-minutes each

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

"Course No. 8588."

Unabridged

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

Disc 1: 1. Religious toleration in Colonial America? ;

2.

Neither American nor Revolutionary? -- Disc 2: 3. Constitution did not create a democracy ; Washington: failures and real accomplishments --

Disc 3. 5.

Confusions about Jefferson and Hamilton ;

6.

Andrew Jackson: an odd symbol of democracy -- Disc 4: 7. Second great awakening: enduring impacts ;

8.

Did slavery really cause the Civil War? -- Disc 5: 9. Civil War's actual turning points ;

10.

Myth of laissez-faire -- Disc 6: 11. Misconceptions about the original populists ;

12.

Labor in America: a strange history -- Disc 7: 13. Myths about American isolation and empire ;

14.

Early progressives were not liberals -- Disc 8: 15. Woodrow Wilson and the rating of presidents ;

16.

Roaring Twenties reconsidered -- Disc 9: 17. Hoover and the Great Depression revisited ;

18.

What did Roosevelt's New Deal really do? -- Disc 10: 19. World War II misconceptions and myths ;

20.

Was the Cold War inevitable? -- Disc 11: 21. Real blunders of the Vietnam War ;

22.

Myths about American Wars -- Disc 12: 23. Who matters in American history? ;

24.

History did not begin with us