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DCCCD Open Education Resource(OER). A collection of resources provided by Dallas TeleLearning, a part of the Dallas County Community College District. Dallas TeleLearning has been producing distance learning courses since 1972. Our dynamic content features some of the most prominent voices in educat…

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    Shaping America: Early Reconstruction

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2012 7:09


    As ex-slaves tried to exercise freedom as Reconstruction began, they encountered obstacles on almost every front. This video analyzes these issues and the adjustments being made.

    Shaping America: The End of Reconstruction

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2012 6:04


    Reconstruction in the South ended when conservative white southern Democrats regained political power in the region. This video analyzes how and why that happened and what it meant for southern blacks.

    Shaping America: The Battle of History

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2012 3:10


    This video provides a summary analysis of the successes and failures of Reconstruction, how the era was presented historically, and the legacy of that period.

    Shaping America: Radical Reconstruction

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2012 6:13


    This video analyzes Radical Republican attempts to reshape the South and southern resistance to those efforts.

    Shaping America: Ku Klux Klan

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2012 1:55


    The Ku Klux Klan was a terrorist organization whose purpose was to maintain southern white control over blacks through violence and intimidation. This video segment examines the origins and actions of the Klan.

    Shaping America: The 15th Amendment

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2012 1:09


    A crucial part of what freedom means is to have the right to vote. This brief video examines the provisions of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution and its limits.

    Shaping America: The 14th Amendment

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2012 1:08


    The 14th Amendment is one of the most important additions ever added to the original Constitution. This brief video examines its key provisions and their significance.

    Shaping America: Reconstruction-A Period of Hope

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2012 1:22


    This video introduces some of the major issues facing the United States as the nation began reconstruction after the Civil War.

    Shaping America: The 13th Amendment

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2012 0:56


    This brief video examines the meaning of the 13th Amendment and its significance in the context of Reconstruction.

    Shaping America: The Blunder

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 3:40


    In the context of the American revolutionary movement, this video analyzes the causes and consequences of the Boston Massacre.

    Shaping America: Queens Corner

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 6:04


    This video examines how protests, boycotts, and the Boston Tea Party brought out both a significant shift in British policy and a significant movement toward colonial unity.

    Shaping America: Endgame

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 2:57


    This video provides a summary analysis of the developing colonial unity in opposition to British policies between 1754 and 1774, and examines the question of inevitability of the American Revolution.

    Shaping America: The First Continental Congress

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 1:50


    This video briefly examines the convening and importance of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1774.

    Shaping America: The Middle Game

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012


    To help pay for the expense of its empire in America, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act. This video explains the American reaction to this British move.

    Shaping America: The Gambit

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 3:32


    This video analyzes the short- and long-term significance of James Otis' arguments against the British Writs of Assistance.

    Shaping America: Opening Moves

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 3:43


    The French and Indian War, fought and won by the British, changed the political dynamics in British North America. This video examines British policies and colonial reactions between 1754 and 1763.

    Shaping America: The Proclamation Line

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 1:40


    After the French and Indian War, the British proclaimed an arbitrarily drawn line designed to prevent or slow down any westward expansion and to reduce Indian conflict against the Colonists. This video examines the consequences of this decision by the British.

    Transforming America: The Greatest Risk

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 2:10


    This video assesses how developments since 9-11 have redefined the relationship of the United States with the rest of the world.

    Transforming America: Trading Freedom for Security

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 3:47


    The federal government took many steps to increase national security after 9-11. This video analyzes those steps and the inherent conflict between the need for security and the need for freedom.

    Transforming America: A Very Dark World

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 2:15


    This video describes one way of coping with the darkness surrounding life in the post-9-11 world.

    Transforming America: Day of Terror

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 2:27


    Focusing on the events of September 11, 2001, this video combines first-person accounts of the day with a broader outline of the attack on America.

    Transforming America: New Opportunity, New Vulnerability

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 6:47


    This video analyzes the economic, social and cultural effects of contemporary globalization.

    Transforming America: Consequences of Globalization

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 2:39


    Some of the consequences of globalization include job loss, inadequate worker protection, and environmental deterioration. These issues are examined in this video.

    Transforming America: Creative Destruction

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 1:15


    This video focuses on the accelerating globalization of culture and the consequences of this development.

    Transforming America: Free Trade

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 2:55


    This video examines the role free trade plays in economic globalization.

    Transforming America: Globalization

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 1:05


    An introduction to an examination of globalization in the early 21st century.

    Transforming America: The Western Myth

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 2:21


    This video presents a thought-provoking analysis by historians Patricia Limerick and Richard White of the development and uses of the “western myth.”

    Transforming America: A Sense of Place

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 9:28


    This segment analyzes the effects of the transformation of the West on American Indians and Mexican Americans in the late 19th century.

    Transforming America: Indian Assimilation

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 4:39


    This segment analyzes the effects of the federal government’s policies promoting assimilation of American Indians in the late 19th century. Vine Deloria, Jr., contributes to the Indian perspective.

    Transforming America: Conquest and Survival

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 8:14


    This video examines American Indian choices and responses to the encroachment on their lands in the late 19th century. Rapid changes in life style resulted. An American Indian perspective is presented on the conflicts at Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee.

    Transforming America: Farming on the Plains

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 4:51


    This segment examines how the federal government’s land policy (Homestead Act) and land subsidies to railroads spurred movement into the plains. Farmers tried to adjust to a harsh environment and a national market.

    Transforming America: The West in the Gilded_Age

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 1:42


    Transforming America: The Promised Land

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 6:32


    Shaping America: A Revolutionary Society

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 3:21


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