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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Thomas Jefferson is a two-part portrait of one of the most fascinating and complicated figures ever to walk across America’s public stage – our enigmatic and brilliant third president. Thomas Jefferson embodies within his own life the most profound contradictions of American history: as the author of our most sacred document, the Declaration of Independence, he gave voice to our fervent desire for freedom, but he also owned more than 150 human...
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Addresses heavily debated questions by offering different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. This volume covers the American Revolution. Provides students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history texts, helps stimulate critical thinking and provides ideas for papers and assignments.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The author of the Declaration of Independence, a strong voice for the defense of liberty, and the architect behind the largest territorial expansion in United States history, this episode examines Thomas Jefferson’s rightful place on Mount Rushmore..
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A true symbol and inspiration for all that is best about America, the actual Declaration of Independence has been rolled up, moved, hidden, copied and transported by more modes of transportation than anyone might guess since its signing in 1776. In this witty, gritty and factual history, audiences will learn all about the document that has defined American freedom for over two centuries.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The complexities of the American Constitution and system of government are a consequence of disagreements between Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Look at their arguments and contributions to political thought - including the Declaration of Independence, parts of the Constitution, and the Federalist Papers - along with the ideas of Montesquieu.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
At 70 years old, Franklin played a central role in America's declaration of independence, the formation of a new government in Pennsylvania, and in diplomatic forays to Canada and France. Find out what lessons the reluctant politician had learned that would help him navigate the entirely new world being created around him.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the second episode, most Americans cannot imagine a complete break from Britain, even after shots are fired at Lexington. Powerful words push matters over the edge in 1776. A pamphlet, Common Sense, and the Declaration of Independence argue that it is the natural right of men to govern themselves. For Americans, there is no looking back. George Washington's army is created. There will be war with England.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating, in-depth study of the founding fathers of the United States. Learn about the cultures and societies upon which they based the U.S. government and discover the influence of Egyptian, Greek and Native American cultures on our own. This program discusses the former system of government our founders took notice of most and explore the origin and creation of the Declaration of Independence.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Close the course by returning to the Declaration of Independence and its pledge that "all men are created equal." Trace the struggle to realize this promise from the turmoil of Reconstruction to a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., site of sit-ins during the Civil Rights era, and now on display at (where else?) the Smithsonian.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the Second Continental Congress of July 1776, a resolution declaring independence was adopted by the Congress and framed by a Declaration of Independence composed by Thomas Jefferson. In the Articles of Confederation of 1781, a joint government for the United States was created.
Series
Publisher
St. James Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Spanning from the earliest published examples dating to 16th C. Europe, through the Declaration of Independence, to the 2006 Euston Manifesto, this work describes the authors and their causes, as well as the social, political, economic philosophies that are behind them. The context of history will play an important role in describing the circumstances of their writing and how they were received and acted upon at the time of writing and after.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Franklin leaves London and returns to wartime Philadelphia where he joins Congress and helps Thomas Jefferson craft the Declaration of Independence. In Paris, he wins French support for the American Revolution then negotiates a peace treaty with Britain. He spends his last years in the new United States, working on the Constitution and unsuccessfully promoting the abolition of slavery.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
When you think of Colorado, what comes to mind? Obviously, the snow-capped Rocky Mountains; however, there is so much more to the Centennial State, which is the nickname for the 38th state of the United States, because it officially became a state in 1876, one hundred years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Here you're invited to sit back and enjoy the grand tour of "Colorful Colorado" with its magnificent scenery of mountains,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Does the Constitution have what it takes to keep up with modern America? Join Peter Sagal as he hits the road to find out. Traveling across the country by motorcycle, Sagal is in search of where the U.S. Constitution lives, how it works and how it doesn't ... how it unites us as a nation and how it has nearly torn us apart. Part One: The high ideals of the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” didn’t make it into the Constitution...
Publisher
Monterey Media, Inc
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
This is quite a story. For there are some stories that are so individually significant that they speak for an entire area of history. Imagine trying to become the first woman doctor, or being a slave woman who helped lead over three hundred others to freedom, or daring simply to write of an equality and a freedom that seemed so natural and yet was left out of the Declaration of Independence. Within the individual stories of the progress and accomplishments...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Through interviews with historians and dramatic reenactments of eyewitness accounts, this documentary series chronicles the pivotal events that took place between 1763 and 1789 as the United States came into being. In 1763, America's capital city is London, Benjamin Franklin is considering retirement in England and no one connects Boston Harbor to tea parties. But British efforts to enforce the Stamp Act in 1765 bring protests in America, and attempts...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
"Highly Recommended. Using contemporary on-location footage, re-enactors, photographic and portrait stills this production is an excellent look at the man, Robert Edward Lee. One historian has called him "the Marble Man" more an icon to the South than a flesh and blood man. This work gives us a look at his humanity. Presenting his family lineage (the Lees were one of the oldest and most prominent Virginia families), their history was very much intertwined...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The National Parks: America's Best Idea is the story of an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most special places in the nation should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. As such, it follows in the tradition of Burns's exploration of other American inventions, such as baseball and jazz. The narrative traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows...
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