Rosenzweig, Paul

Summary: In the centuries since the founding of the republic, there have been notable challenges to presidential authority. Among these are investigations, designed to seek out and uproot abuses of executive power. They are built on a system of institutions, laws, and policies that govern how our nation protects itself from corruption and tyranny. Even today, we see this system at work in controversies...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 353.46 INV
Call number: DVD 353.46 INV

Summary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR
3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 2
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 3

Summary: "The goal of this course is to illuminate the original foundations of our American civic culture by reenacting the Great Debate, from 1787 to 1788, over ratification of the proposed constitution. We will focus on the most profound intellectual and philosophic levels of the contoversy, centered on the competing republican visions held by the proponents of the constitution (Federalists) and their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 GRE
Call number: DVD 342 GRE

Summary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995

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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 1
Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 2
Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 3

Summary: Between 1500 and 1800, the world was transformed. The peoples of Europe, Africa, and America, brought together in an often violent colonial process, created a New World and transformed the old. These lectures examine the relations of the colonies with the native people, the relations between the British colonies and the colonial outposts of Spain, France, and the Netherlands, and how British...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 BEF

Summary: American University professor Allan J. Lichtman delivers forty-eight lectures on twelve of America's presidents.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.09 GRE

Contents: Disc 1: Why have government? -- The framework of US federalism -- Civil liberties: freedoms from government -- Civil rights: fairness under government -- How a bill becomes a law -- Why Congress is such a puzzle -- Disc 2: How Congressional elections work -- The powers of presidency -- How presidential elections work -- A road map of the federal bureaucracy -- How the judicial branch works --...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 UND

Summary: For most Americans, the history of the United States is built on a set of long-accepted beliefs about events, each of which resonates in the nation's collective memory. But what if those beliefs, however familiar, don't really tell the whole story? Our knowledge of history - or what we believe to be history - is the lens through which we view and interpret the world. And when that lens is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SKE

Summary: Why do the ancient Greeks occupy such a prominent place in conceptions of Western culture and identity? The Greeks are a source of much that we esteem: democracy, philosophy, tragedy, epic and lyric poetry, history-writing, ideals of athletic competition, aesthetic sensibilities, and more. Spanning roughly 1,000 years, the lectures cover the Late Bronze Age (1500 B.C.E.) to the time of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1998

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 938 MCI
Call number: DVD 938 MIC

Contents: Disc 1. The importance of money -- Money as a social contract -- How is money created? -- Monetary history of the United States -- Local currencies and nonstandard banks -- How inflation erodes the value of money -- Disc 2. Hyperinflation is the repudiation of money Saving-the source of funds for investment -- The real rate of interest -- Financial intermediaries -- Commercial banks -- Central...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.1 MON
Call number: DVD 332.1 MON

Cobb, Daniel M.

Summary: Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NAT

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NAT

Cook, William R. (William Robert)

Summary: Professor Cook leads you on an engaging and energetic discussion on Alexis de Tocqueville, his journey, his writing of Democracy in America and, most of all, his thoughts on the young nation he was observing. For Tocqueville, it seems, had opinions about almost everything he encountered in America, and not exclusively politics and "classical" issues such as the nature of the judiciary and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 TOC

Summary: "Explore the legally treacherous terrain of white collar crime under the guidance of an acclaimed law school professor."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.0268 WHI
Call number: DVD 345.0268 WHI

Allitt, Patrick.

Contents: Pt 1. Lecture 1: What is conservatism? -- Lecture 2: Glorious revolution and its heritage -- Lecture 3: Burke, tradition, and the French Revolution -- Lecture 4: Pitt and the wars of the French Revolution -- Lecture 5: American Revolution -- Lecture 6: Federalists -- Lecture 7: Conservatives in the American south -- Lecture 8: Northern Antebellum conservatism -- Lecture 9: Opposing the Great...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 CON

Summary: Explore the astounding accomplishments of the ancient North Americans and their significant American legacy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 Bar
Call number: DVD 970 Bar

Allitt, Patrick

Summary: Experience the grit and the glory of the early American West with an acclaimed Great Courses professor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 AME

Whaples, Robert

Summary: Presents lectures on economic issues in the United States.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 MOD

Summary: America's Long Struggle against Slavery is a chance to survey the history of the American anti-slavery movement, from the dawn of the transatlantic slave trade during the late 15th century to the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and beyond. Taught by Professor Richard Bell of the University of Maryland, these 30 eye-opening lectures give an up-close view of a venal institution and the people who...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 AME
Call number: DVD 973.7 AME

Summary: Chronicles the history of the United States from colonial origins to the beginning of the 21st century. Lectures presented by Allen C. Guelzo, Eastern University; Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia; Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003

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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 HIS
Call number: DVD 973 HIS VOL. 1
Call number: DVD 973 HIS VOL. 2

Summary: "Survey more than 200 years of musical sounds and styles that are inextricably linked with the spirit and history of the United States of America"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.973 AME
Call number: DVD 780.973 AME

Summary: This course introduces the student to the history of the English language, from its origins as a dialect of the Germanic-speaking peoples, through the literary and cultural documents of its 1500 year span, to the state of American speech of the present day.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 420.9 HIS
Call number: DVD 420.9 HIS

Bucholz, R. O.

Summary: During the 229-year period 1485-1714, England transformed itself from a minor feudal state into "the first modern society," emerging as the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world. The English people survived epidemics, famines, one failed invasion and two successful ones, two civil wars, violent religious reformations and counter-reformations, and confrontations with two of the most...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 HIS

Summary: Teaching is more than a job--it's a responsibility, one of the greatest responsibilities in civilized society. Teachers lay bare the mysteries of the world; train minds to explore, question, investigate, and discover; and ensure that knowledge is not lost or forgotten but passed on to future generations. Teachers shape lives in limitless ways, both inside and outside of the classroom. But...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.102 ART