This bold 24-lecture course examines many commonly held myths and half-truths about American history and prompts you to think about what really happened in the nation's past-as opposed to what many believe happened. Delivered by award-winning scholar and Professor Mark A. Stoler of the University of Vermont, these lectures demonstrate how reconsidering some of hte most popular notions of U.S. history can yield new (and sometimes startlingly different) interpretations of political, social, economic, and military events.

24 lectures, 30-minutes each. Compact discs. In container (19 cm.). Course guide book including lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes and bibliography. "Course No. 8588."

Disc 1: 1.Religious toleration in Colonial America? ; 2. Neither American nor revolutionary? -- Disc 2: 3. The constitution did not create a democracy ; Washington: failures and real accomplishments -- Disc 3. 5. Confusions about Jefferson and Hamilton ; 6. Andrew Jackson: an odd symbol of democracy -- Disc 4: 7. The second great awakening: enduring impacts ; 8. Did slavery really cause the Civil War? -- Disc 5: 9. The Civil War's actual turning points ; 10. The myth of laissez-faire -- Disc 6: 11. Misconceptions about the original populists ; 12. Labor in America: a strange history -- Disc 7: 13. Myths about American isolation and empire ; 14. Early progressives were not liberals -- Disc 8: 15. Woodrow Wilson and the rating of presidents ; 16. The roaring Twenties reconsidered -- Disc 9: 17. Hoover and the Great Depression revisited ; 18. What did Roosevelt's New Deal really do? -- Disc 10: 19. World War II misconceptions and myths ; 20. Was the Cold War inevitable? -- Disc 11: 21. The real blunders of the Vietnam War ; 22. Myths about American wars -- Disc 12: 23. Who matters in American history? ; 24. History did not begin with us.