History 131

By David Hoogland Noon

Education Higher Education

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History 131 episodes:

12.14.2007
Civil War I
"Crimsoned in human gore.
12.14.2007
Civil War II
The end
12.05.2007
Crisis of the 1850s (II)
Everyone goes insane.
12.05.2007
Crisis of the 1850s (I)
It gets worse.
11.25.2007
Mexican War/Southern Culture & Economy
Recorded at home.
11.17.2007
Abolitionism/Manifest Destiny
"A compact with death, an agreement with hell."
11.16.2007
Reform Movements (1830s)
History and toddlers don't mix well. This is another short lecture, interrupted periodically by the strange antics of my daughter. Best of luck making sense out of this one...
11.16.2007
Jacksonian Democracy (short lecture)
This one's only about 50 minutes long and gets cut off at the end because my battery died. You didn't miss much.
11.10.2007
The Market Revolution
It's more interesting than it sounds.
11.08.2007
War of 1812
A weird little war.
11.04.2007
Jefferson's Era
An "Empire for Liberty," sort of.
10.26.2007
Federalist Era II
Foreign policy of the 1790s; Alien and Sedition Acts; the fall of the Federalist Party.
10.26.2007
Federalist Era I
Back again after a long layoff. Lecture deals with the domestic politics of the Federalist Era during the 1790s.
10.26.2007
1780s
This lecture deals with the Articles of Confederation period.
10.09.2007
Revolution II
The war continues.
10.09.2007
Revolution I
Origins of the revolutionary war.
10.02.2007
Empires in Conflict
This lecture covers some of the major geopolitical events for the British colonies in the 18th century, including the wars of the 1730s-1760s and the colonists' growing discontent with Great Britain.
09.14.2007
Jamestown and Virginia
You wouldn't have wanted to live there.
09.14.2007
Colonial Knowledge/French and English Ventures
Lecture covers the sources of European "knowledge" about the Western hemispheric peoples; then addresses the particular features of French and English forays into North America.
09.07.2007
New Spain
The origins of European colonialism. Examination of the motives and processes that brought Spain into the western hemisphere. Plus, I waste ten minutes at the start of class discussing the particularities of National Waffle Week and National Biscuit Month.