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Great courses (Compact disc)Eakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig)
Summary: Professor Marshall C. Eakin of Vanderbilt University delivers twenty-four lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinctive identity of the Americas...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Co. 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 970 EAKCall number: CD 970 EAK PART 2
Roth, Jonathan P.
Summary: Professor Roth, a military historian, presents a different look at war and its history. Instead of focusing on battles, campaigns, and strategies in individual wars, he looks at the story of the intimate interconnections of war with human cultures and societies and how these connections have shaped history. War not only destroys, it creates: the growth of essential new technologies; the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2009
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4 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909 ROT VOL. 1Call number: CD 909 ROT VOL. 2
Call number: CD 909 ROT VOL. 3
Call number: CD 909 ROT VOL. 4
Daileader, Philip.
Summary: Focusing on the seven centuries from 300 to 1000, this course examines the period of European history known as the "Dark Ages." The period is dominated by two empires, the Roman Empire and the Carolingian Empire.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.1 DAISummary: Dr. Dorsey Armstrong is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Literature at Purdue University, where she has taught since 2002. The holder of an A.B. in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from Duke University, she also taught at Centenary College of Louisiana and at California State University, Long Beach. Her research interests...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.1 ARM PART 1Call number: CD 940.1 ARM PART 2
Cook, William R. (William Robert)
Contents: pt. 1. From Jesus to the creation of the Church -- The first Christian institutions -- Christianities in the early Church -- Persecution and saints -- Peace between empire and Church -- Institutional and doctrinal developments -- Latin theology, including Augustine -- Popes and bishops in the early Middle Ages -- Monasticism: Benedict and his rule -- Evangelizing northern and eastern Europe --...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 282 COO Part 1Call number: CD 282 COO Part 2
Call number: CD 282 COO Part 3
Johnson, Luke Timothy.
Summary: Examines the spiritual, literary, and intellectual heritage of these three religions in relation to the mystical experience.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2008
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 204.22 JOH PART 1Call number: CD 204.22 JOH PART 2
Call number: CD 204.22 JOH PART 3
Guelzo, Allen C.
Summary: A survey of the American revolution, from its outbreak at Lexington and Concord in April 1775 until its close with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 and the dispersion of the American Continental Army.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 GUE VOL. 1Kobylka, Joseph Fiske.
Contents: Part 1. Lecture 1. America -- The philosophical experiment -- Lecture 2. Historical baggage -- Lecture 3. Theoretical baggage -- Lecture 4. A Puritan beginning -- Lecture 5. Expansion and individualism -- Lecture 6. The revolutionary context -- Lecture 7. The road to the Declaration of Independence -- Lecture 8. A "natural" revolutionary--Thomas Paine -- Lecture 9. The unconscious dialectic of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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4 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 320 KOBCall number: CD 320 KOB PART 1
Call number: CD 320 KOB PART 2
Call number: CD 320 KOB PART 3
Irons, Peter H.
Summary: A thirty-six lecture course that traces the development of the United States Supreme Court from its founding to the present, with a focus on the landmark cases that have reflected conflicts in American society.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003