ISBN 0-923805-16-8

The American History Videodisc is a visual library for you and your students, providing materials to enrich and enliven your U.S. history classes all year long.

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For use in illustrated lectures which you design, the disc provides instant access to a far-reaching collection of 2512 still images and 68 motion picture sequences. You decide which of the images you want to use, and in what order you want them to appear. You are in complete control of the presentation.

Each of the images has a descriptive caption in the accompanying guide book. As an image is displayed on the classroom TV screen (by scanning its barcode with a hand-held barcode reader), you read the caption to the class, just as in a slide presentation. You can make any desired changes in the text. This is a simple process which does not require a computer.

The images include historical events, prominent persons, hundreds of paintings and other works of art, political cartoons, and 115 maps, all selected to be compatible with leading textbooks. The 68 motion picture sequences range from Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders to a film of President Clinton and House Speaker Gingrich.

Because the content of your illustrated lecture is determined by your understanding of the needs of your students, plus your imagination and teaching skills, it will be remarkably effective.

Ten overviews (sound-and-image video summaries of historical periods, narrated by Charles Kuralt) may be used to introduce major periods of U.S. history. An Overview can also be used to review a historical period after its study has been completed.

The guide book includes an extensive index which makes it easy to locate the images you want, and it also contains subject headings which you or your students can use to prepare separate visual presentations on such subjects as Hispanic-American history, the development of transportation, and many others.

This videodisc is not a single-use presentation. Instead, it is an interactive resource, from which you can select images and captions for a wide range of instructional purposes covering a full year's course of study.

Your students can become involved in the study of U.S. history by preparing illustrated reports for the classroom TV screen. Working in groups or as individuals, they can thus gain experience in research, critical thinking, organizing data, and presenting their programs.

Captions from the guide book can be photocopied for non-profit instructional use within your campus; the book is plastic bound for easy copying. You can make a "low-tech" lecture script by copying selected captions, with their barcodes; such scripts can be kept for future use. Or you can use the CD-ROM to prepare a lecture script for the videodisc, as explained on the preceding pages.

You can add interest and excitement to your U.S. history classes with this treasure-trove of vivid images, thoroughly researched captions, lively video sequences, and ready-to-use narrated overviews, all designed for ease of use in your classroom.

• Indigenous Peoples Before European Contact
• European Exploration and the Rediscovery of America
• Spanish and Portuguese Explorers After Columbus
• Later European Exploration and Settlement to 1688
• The English Settlement of New England

• The Glorious Revolution and the Wars for Empire
• Peace and Colonial Expansion: England
• Peace and Colonial Expansion: Spain and France
• English Colonial Developments of the Mid-18th Century
• The Second Phase of the Anglo-French War for Empire, 1739-1763

• The Background for the American Revolution, 1765-1774
• The Beginnings of Colonial Resistance, 1774-1776
• The Decision for Independence
• The War for Independence
• The NewNation Under the Articles of Confederation
• The Federal Era, 1789-1800
• The Jeffersonian Era
• The War of 1812
• Postwar Nationalism and Expansion
• African Americans in the New Nation
• Women in the Early Republic

• Westward Expansion, Transportation Improvements and Urban Growth
• The Political Consequences of Growth
• Texas: Settlement by Americans and the Fight for Independence
• Slavery and the Southern Economy and Society
• Industrialization and Economic Change in the North
• Intellectual, Religious, and Reform Ferment at Mid-Century
• Early California and the Pacific Northwest
• The Mexican War and the California Gold Rush
• The Growing Sectional Crisis

• Final Political Crisis and the Beginning of the War
• Civil War Campaigns, the First Two Years
• The End of the War, 1863-1865
• Life in the Civil War
• Wartime Politics in the North
• The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Reconstruction, 1865-1876
• The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• Politics Under Grant, and the "Redemption" of the South

• The Postwar Western Frontiers
• Invention and Technological Frontiers
• The Emergence of a National Labor Movement
• Immigration in the Late 19th Century
• The New South
• The End of the Western Frontier
• Politics in the Gilded Age
• American Expansion Abroad
• An Urban Society and Culture

• Symbols of the Twentieth Century
• The Progressive Era
• Progressive Era Politics and Diplomacy
• World War I

• Life in the 1920s
• The Politics of the Twenties
• The Great Depression
• Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
• The Diplomacy of the 1930s and the Beginnings of World War II

• The Entry into WWII and the Transformation of American Life
• The War Abroad
• The Postwar World
• The Korean War
• The Cold War at Home
• The Eisenhower Years
• Post-WWII American Life

• The Kennedy Years
• Lyndon Johnson's America
• The Nixon Administration
• The Aftermath of Watergate: Domestic and International Politics under Ford and Carter
• Reagan, Bush and the Republican Ascendancy of the 1980s
• Toward the 21st Century

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