Multimedia

Facing the New Millennium

These videos and podcasts by eminent scholars, master teachers, and other speakers open a variety of ways to explore American history. The presentations range from two- or three-minute interview clips to hour-long lectures. Whether you watch them in class, assign them to your students for homework, or download them to your iPod for a long road trip, each one can give you new insight into the past.

Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll

Speaker(s): Marc Dolan Duration: 0 seconds

The Politics of Natural Resources

Speaker(s): James Engell Duration: 0 seconds

Multimedia from Other Sub-Eras

America at the End of the 20th Century, Part 1

Speaker(s): James Patterson Duration: 0 seconds

Defining the Twentieth Century

Speaker(s): Edward L. Ayers Duration: 0 seconds

Economic and Financial Crises in American History Day 1

Speaker(s): Richard Sylla Duration: 0 seconds

Economic and Financial Crises in American History Day 3

Speaker(s): Richard Sylla Duration: 0 seconds

Economic and Financial Crises in American History Day 5

Speaker(s): Richard Sylla Duration: 0 seconds

FDR’s First 100 Days . . . and Obama’s

Speaker(s): Anthony J. Badger Duration: 0 seconds

Generations in Captivity: Slavery in America

Speaker(s): Ira Berlin Duration: 0 seconds

How did war shape the twentieth century?

Speaker(s): Jennifer Keene Duration: 0 seconds

Nature, Culture, and Native Americans

Speaker(s): Daniel Wildcat Duration: 0 seconds

Political and Social Legacies of the Sixties

Speaker(s): Michael Flamm Duration: 0 seconds

The American Fascination with the Civil War

Speaker(s): Gary Gallagher Duration: 0 seconds

The American West: Urban v. Rural

Speaker(s): Richard White Duration: 0 seconds

The Changing Face of the Supreme Court in American History

Speaker(s): A.E. Dick Howard Duration: 0 seconds

The Origins of the Cold War

Speaker(s): John Lewis Gaddis Duration: 0 seconds

The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope

Speaker(s): Andrew Delbanco Duration: 0 seconds

The Rise and Fall of Federal Power from the Founding Era to the New Deal

Speaker(s): Larry Kramer Duration: 0 seconds

What are the legacies of the civil rights movement?

Speaker(s): Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Duration: 0 seconds