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#D6790
Complete 26-Volume Set
Grades 5-12
Closed-captioned [cc]
35-40 minutes each
Set: $1,038.70, Each $39.95
Thoroughly researched and meticulously crafted, this series
presents important events, historical figures, dates, documents
and facts from the earliest Native Americans to the Cold War
years following World War II. An extensive collection of archival
photographs, artifacts, historical re-enactments and interviews
with historians provides students with vivid images, while
dramatic readings bring to life the voices of the nation's
leaders and citizens. This compelling and entertaining series
not only covers standard historical information but also presents
the perspectives and contributions of women and children, African
Americans, Native Americans and others, so that the viewer truly
understands what these times were like for all Americans. Each
program is created to supplement textbooks for the entire American
history curriculum. These programs directly correlate with the highly
respected, best-selling history textbook from Prentice Hall,
The American Nation. Copyright 1996-2001.
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#D6761, $39.95
This program explores the origins of human life in North America
and the progress of early Native American tribes. 36 minutes.
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#D6762, $39.95
This program vividly presents the hardships faced by the first
European settlers, giving viewers a sense of the determination
of the people of the Jamestown and Puritan settlements. 39 minutes.
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#D6763, $39.95
This program presents the impact of indentured servitude
and chattel slavery on American life and values, and
traces the development of important political ideals
taking shape in representative governments and local
meeting places. 39 minutes.
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#D6764, $39.95
This exciting program uncovers the seeds of the American Revolution,
and explains how it found cause in England's imperial policies. 37 minutes.
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#D6765, $39.95
The U.S. was a fledgling country inventing a new kind of
government as it formed the Continental Congress and ratified
the Articles of Confederation and the Northwest Ordinance.
This program covers Shay's Rebellion, the Constitutional
Convention, the Ratification Debates, the creation of Bill of
Rights, political factions and the two-party system, the Alien
and Sedition Acts, and the Marshall Court. 38 minutes.
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#D6766, $39.95
Optimism abounded as the young country began an era of
territorial expansion. This program covers the Louisiana
Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition to Native
American resistance, Tecumseh and the Trail of Tears,
the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War and others. 40 minutes.
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#D6767, $39.95
Jacksonian democracy and the newfound power of the "common man"
were critical political issues as the Unites States experienced the
Second Great Awakening, Temperance, the women's suffrage movement and
Seneca Falls and the "Declaration of Sentiments." 40 minutes.
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#D6768, $39.95
This compelling program reveals how the interests of the
industrial North and the agricultural South (the Cotton Belt)
came to clash over critical issues such as plantation slavery,
and how these issues eventually led to the secession of the
southern states. 36 minutes.
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#D6769, $39.95
This program utilizes exciting re-enactments, artifacts and
interviews to explore key battles of the Civil War, life on
the Northern and Southern homefronts, and the role of African
Americans in the war. 37 minutes.
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#D6770, $39.95
With the tragic assassination of Lincoln, a complete Congressional
Reconstruction, and the Reconstruction Amendments, the United States
had entered the political modern era. Establishment of the Freedman's
Bureau and a ruling Republican party, however, coincided with grimmer
realities such as the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, a racial caste system,
black segregation, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws and the misguided notion
that white and black Americans could be "separate but equal." 37 minutes.
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#D6771, $39.95
This program reviews how the steam engine, railroads, and the
rise of heavy industry gave birth to corporate America and
extractive industries. 37 minutes.
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#D6772, $39.95
"Old" and "new" immigration policies and
attitudes are explored in this program along with the world
of the immigrants themselves, who formed a new working class. 39 minutes.
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#D6773, $39.95
Beginning with the Railroad Strike of 1877 and covering the
issues which tore apart the very fabric of the "upstart
nation," this program explores the World of Capital vs.
the World of Labor, the victimization of women and children
in the workplace, and the rise of organized labor, strikes
and labor unions. 37 minutes.
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#D6774, $39.95
From the roots of progressivism to settlement houses, muckrakers
and city bosses, the United States had become a truly modern nation.
The American people fought the trusts and enacted political reforms
that heightened the differences between the New Nationalism and the
New Freedom. 33 minutes.
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#D6775, $39.95
The slaughter of buffalo, the conquest of the American West
and the Dawes Act had serious impact on Native Americans, as
the U.S. moved from isolation to empire. Additionally, a new
American political culture emerged with the Spanish-American
War, the Filipino insurrection, an American presence in the
Caribbean and the building of the Panama Canal. All are covered
in this program. 40 minutes.
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#D6776, $39.95
American neutrality could not keep the U.S. from the road
to world war. In this program, dramatic footage, photographs
and interviews illuminate significant events during this time. 34 minutes.
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#D6777, $39.95
The Return to Normalcy ushered in an exciting new era,
including the start of the automobile culture, flappers
and the Revolution in Manners and Morals and more! 35 minutes.
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#D6778, $39.95
This program explores the causes of the Great Depression and
the impact of the stock market crash as hard times fell on
America. It also covers the New Deal, the Dust Bowl and the
newly emerging culture of sight and sound. 36 minutes.
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#D6779, $39.95
Upheaval in Europe and Asia bring the first signs of a second
world war. This program covers the European and Pacific Theaters
and the beginnings of the Atomic Age as well as life on the
homefront, Americans on the move, the Second Great Migration,
Rosie the Riveter and the internment of Japanese Americans. 39 minutes.
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#D6780, $39.95
Post-war prosperity and the rise of a consumer society put
America in the global spotlight. Kew political policies and
social reform are covered in this program. 39 minutes.
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#D6781, $39.95
The United States and the Soviet Union emerged from World War II
at odds over their postwar goals. The escalation of these
conflicting opinions led the world into a tense, bitter struggle
that came to be known as the Cold War. While the world's superpowers
never battled each other directly, their indirect involvement with
each other in locales around the globe pushed the world to the
brink of nuclear war. This vivid program utilizes archival footage
and interviews with renowned experts to dramatize this uneasy period
in American history, featuring in-depth coverage of the crisis in
Berlin, Fidel Castro and Cuba and the eventual fall of the Soviet
Union. 23 minutes.
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#D6782, $39.95
The latter-half of the 20th century saw many of the nation's minority
groups taking a stand to ensure that the declaration "all men are
created equal" became not just an oft-quoted sentiment but a firm
reality. Beginning with the valiant efforts of those involved in the
African-American civil rights movement of the 1960's, students will
learn how the push for equality in American society crossed over to
other ethnic groups, women and the disabled. This vivid program covers
major figures, events and legislation of the day through the use of
archival footage and interviews with renowned experts, all of which
provide a detailed account of the movements that pushed America closer
to its pledge of "one nation, with liberty and justice for all." 23 minutes.
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#D6783, $39.95
The Vietnam War -- no U.S. war was longer, and none sparked
more strife at home. Students will explore the history of
American involvement in Vietnam, from the end of French
colonial rule through the fall of Saigon to the North
Vietnamese. This compelling program examines the many
people, places and events that became synonymous with the
war, from the Gulf of Tonkin to the Tet Offensive; from Ho
Chi Minh to Lyndon Johnson; and from the 'domino theory' to
the anti-war movement that proved so important in shaping
America's political and social landscape. Vivid archival
footage and interviews with renowned experts add credence
to this comprehensive examination of the longest and most
divisive war in U.S. history. 23 minutes.
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#D6784, $39.95
Since World War II, the United States has become increasingly
drawn into the turbulence of the Middle East. In The Middle
East, students will trace the rocky road towards peace in
this part of the world. The Arab-Israeli conflict, Cold War
tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and the region's
vast oil reserves are each examined as reasons for U.S. involvement
in the Middle East over the past fifty years. From the creation of
the state of Israel through the Gulf War, this comprehensive program
charts the role of the United States in the region, highlighting the
major figures and events that have made the Middle East such a volatile
area of the world. 23 minutes.
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#D6785, $39.95
From the escalating events of the Cold War to the unease
surrounding Vietnam and the Watergate scandal, the period
between 1960 and 1980 was one of the most tumultuous in
American political history. The presidencies of John F.
Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and
Jimmy Carter provide the backbone for this dramatic program
that traces the major figures and events that impacted American
life. From the Civil Rights movement of the '60s through the
Iran hostage crisis of the late '70s, vivid archival footage
and interviews with renowned experts provide students with a
rich, detailed account of the political and social landscape
of the time. 23 minutes.
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#D6786, $39.95
The 1980's and '90's marked a time of dramatic economic
and political change in the United States, a period also
marked by the end of the Cold War, U.S. involvement in
the Persian Gulf, and the impeachment of a sitting president.
The presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill
Clinton provide the backbone for this dramatic period, in
a program that traces the major figures and events that
impacted the last 20 years of the 20th century. Through
the use of vivid archival footage and interviews with
renowned experts, students will grasp the legacy of the
period - touching on everything from Reagan's opposition
to the Soviet Union's "Evil Empire" to the controversial
presidential election of 2000. 23 minutes.
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