Allitt, Patrick.
Summary: Examines religion not only as a set of formal beliefs, ideas, communal or institutional loyalties, and styles of worship, but also as an influence on the rest of American society. Investigates the subtle but important links which have long brought religion into close contact with the intellectual, social, economic, and political concerns of Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 200 ALLIrons, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 347 IRO PART 1Robinson, Daniel N.
Summary: Explores the principles that guided the founding of the United States, the conditions that led to the break with Great Britain, and the creation of such founding documents as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.2 AMEYaqub, Salim.
Contents: Part 1: Lecture l. A meeting of two worlds -- Lecture 2. Wilson & the breakup of the Ottoman Empire -- Lecture 3. The interwar period -- Lecture 4. U.S. & the Middle East during World War II -- Lecture 5. Origins of the Cold War in the Middle East -- Lecture 6. Truman & the creation of Israel -- Lecture 7. Eisenhower, the Cold War & the Middle East -- Lecture 8. The Suez crisis & Arab...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.73 YAQFinn, John E.
Summary: First twelve of thirty-six lectures covering the institutional and interpretive foundations of the American constitutional order; the Bill of Rights; and the individual provisions of the Bill of Rights and the development of several other specific liberties. Thirteen to twenty four of thirty-six lectures covering the institutional and interpretive foundations of the American constitutional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 323 FIN PART 1Call number: CD 323 FIN PART 2
Call number: CD 323 FIN PART 3
Kobylka, 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...
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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
Childers, Thomas
Summary: A set of thirty lectures (in three parts) examining the greatest conflict in human history, the Second World War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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4 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 CHICall number: CD 940.54 CHI PART 1
Call number: CD 940.54 CHI PART 2
Call number: CD 940.54 CHI PART 3
Gallagher, Gary W.
Summary: Details the effect of the war on all Americans. You'll learn how armies were recruited, equipped, and trained. You'll learn about the hard lot of prisoners. You'll hear how soldiers on both sides dealt with the rigors of camp life, campaigns, and the terror of combat. You'll understand how slaves and their falling masters responded to the advancing war. And you will see the desperate price paid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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4 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.7 GAL PART 1Call number: CD 973.7 GAL PART 2
Call number: CD 973.7 GAL PART 3
Call number: CD 973.7 GAL PART 4
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 GUE VOL. 1Guelzo, Allen C.
Summary: Professor Guelzo looks at Lincoln's life and legacy, from his youth and maturation into a successful lawyer through the evolution of his views on slavery to his presidency and triumphant management of emancipation and the restoration of the union.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINMuesse, Mark W. (Mark William)
Summary: Provides an overview of Hinduism and discusses why Hinduism is perhaps the most diverse religion of all. Covers topics such as arranged marriages and the caste system, the Indus Valley Civilization, the sacred writings in the Vedas, the Bhagavad-gita, and the Upanishads, ritual purity rites, the Aryan language of Sanskrit, and Hinduism's rejection of the notion that there is but one path to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 294.2 MUESolomon, Robert C.
Summary: This Lecture course by Professor Robert C. Solomon of the University of Texas explores existentialism and the leading writers and philosophers who have been associated with this philosophical movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 142.78 SOLPrincipe, Lawrence
Summary: Twelve 30-minute lectures by Johns Hopkins University Professor Lawrence M. Principe on the relation between science and religion from early times to the present.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006