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America's history in the making [videorecording] produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting ; Bergmann Graphics ; RMC Research Corporation ; Tweak Interactive ; series producer, Sam Ward
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Reference Desk DISK E 178 .A44 2007
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History.
- United States.
- United States--Civilization.
- United States--Description and travel.
- North America--History.
- North America.
- North America--Civilization.
- North America--Description and travel.
- World Wide Web--Programmed instruction.
- World Wide Web.
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (ca. 540 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- S. Bulington, Vt. : Annenberg Media, c2007.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- Summary:
- This course for middle and high school teachers uses video, online text, classroom actitivites, and web-based activities to explore Americah history from the Pre-Columbian era through Reconstruction. The video programs are divided into three segments: Historical Perspectives, and overview of the historical era; Faces of America, in which biographies of individuals illustrate larger events; and Hands-on-History, a behind-the-scenes look at how history is studied, documented, and presented.
- Contents:
- Disc 1. unit 1. Pre-Columbian America
- unit 2. Mappin initial encounters
- unit 3. Colonial designs
- disc 2. unit 4. Revolutionary perspectives
- unit 6. New nation
- unit 7. Contested territories
- disc 3. unit 8. Antebellum reform
- unit 9. Nation divided
- unit 10. Reconstructing a nation
- unit 11. Classroom applications
- disc 4. Using digital technology
- unit 13. Taming the American West
- unit 14. Industrializing America
- disc 5. unit 15. The Progressives
- unit 16. A growing global power
- unit 17. Classroom applications 3
- unit 18. By the people, for the people
- dsic 6. unit 19. Postwar tensions and triumph and unit 20. Egalitarian America
- unit 21. Global America
- unit 22. Classroom applications 4.
- Credits:
- Written by: Janet Bixby, David Del Mar, Donna Matrazzo, et al.; host, Pat Kruis ; narrator, Lew Frederick.
- Notes:
- Units 12, 17 and 22 are print only. Each disc contains the coordinated section of the course facilitator guide.
- Local Notes:
- Disc 2 HSP credit line: "Election Day at the State House", ca. 1815 (Bc47 K897)
- ISBN:
- 1576808653 :
- 9781576808658 :
- OCLC:
- 192003065
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