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Twenty-six 30-minute lessons
Produced 2000
School-use rights: unlimited
Closed Captioned
Grades 9-12 / social studies
Video Library
10 SS
http://www.WesternReservePublicMedia.org/itv

A Biography of America presents history not simply as a series of irrefutable facts to be memorized, but as a living narrative. Prominent historians — Donald L. Miller, Pauline Maier, Louis P. Masur, Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Douglas Brinkley and Virginia Scharff — present America’s story as something that is best understood from a variety of perspectives. Thought-provoking debates and lectures encourage critical analysis of the forces that have shaped America. First-person narratives, photos, film footage and documents reveal the human side of American history — how historical figures affected events and the impact of these events on citizens’ lives.

1. New World Encounters
2. English Settlement
3. Growth and Empire
4. The Coming of Independence
5. A New System of Government
6. Westward Expansion
7. The Rise of Capitalism
8. The Reform Impulse
9. Slavery
10. The Coming of the Civil War
11. The Civil War
12. Reconstruction
13. America at Its Centennial
14. Industrial Supremacy
15. The New City
16. The West
17. Capital and Labor
18. T.R. and Wilson
19. A Vital Progressivism
20. The Twenties
21. F.D.R. and the Depression
22. World War II
23. The Fifties
24. The Sixties
25. Contemporary History
26. The Redemptive Imagination