Being a Historian.

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Becoming a Historian.

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Churchill as Author and Historian.

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Being a Historian / Ideas Roadshow.

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Earliest Historians of Greece and China

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The Resurrection - What Historians Can't Know.

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Howard Zinn: The People's Historian. Independent Production Fund.

Table of Contents: “…Columbus Myth (5:00) -- Moral Approach to History (3:52) -- Telling Historical Truths (1:16) -- Rethinking Heroes (4:12) -- History and American Identity (2:24) -- Olaudah Equiano (2:24) -- Abolitionist Movement Legacy (4:15) -- Human Complexity (4:25) -- American Slavery (2:02) -- Slavery and Dehumanization (3:03) -- Pequot Massacre (2:38) -- Westward Expansion (3:21) -- Indian Removal (4:43) -- Untold Civil War History (2:55) -- Understanding Indigenous Culture (3:55) -- Bacon's Rebellion (3:56) -- Class Conflict (2:58) -- Revolutionary War Dissension (6:35) -- Shay's Rebellion (7:11) -- American Independence Myth (3:33) -- Reforming the Constitution (5:51) -- Grassroots Democracy Lessons (5:32) -- Credits: Howard Zinn: The People's Historian-Part 1: A Nation in Development (1492- 1787) (0:33)…”
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Howard Zinn: The People's Historian. Independent Production Fund.

Table of Contents: “…Exposing Andrew Jackson (4:38) -- Florida Purchase (4:20) -- Expanding Slave States (3:35) -- Tecumseh's Campaign (2:33) -- Fighting Westward Expansion (3:20) -- Frontier Myth (1:53) -- Sand Creek Massacre (2:21) -- Assimilation Attempts (3:19) -- Manifest Destiny (3:27) -- Mexican War (4:33) -- San Patricio Battalion (4:13) -- Divine Providence (3:28) -- Spanish-American War (4:47) -- American Imperial Strategy (5:22) -- Questioning Superpower Privileges (5:03) -- Questioning American Success (6:10) -- Rethinking Foreign Policy (6:35) -- War as Terrorism (2:40) -- Lessons from History (1:40) -- Credits: Howard Zinn: The People's Historian-Part 2: A Nation Redefined (1750- 1864) (0:32)…”
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Howard Zinn: The People's Historian. Independent Production Fund.

Table of Contents: “…(1:54) -- Southern Bread Riots (5:34) -- Civil War Class Conflict (3:26) -- Contribution of Black Soldiers (1:41) -- Blacks Affect Policy (2:02) -- Treatment of Black POW's (1:01) -- Freedmen's Bureau & Black Codes (3:04) -- Enforcement of 14th & 15th Amendments (3:57) -- Compromise of 1877 (3:50) -- Crumbling of Radical Reconstruction (2:48) -- History of Resistance (2:31) -- Indian Territory (4:30) -- Credits: Howard Zinn: The People's Historian-Part 3: A Fractured Nation (1800-1865) (0:31)…”
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Howard Zinn: The People's Historian. Independent Production Fund.

Table of Contents: “…Post Civil War Idealism (3:59) -- Superficial Civil War Reforms (4:17) -- Populist Movement (5:41) -- "Free Silver" Campaign (5:33) -- Social Movement Strategy (5:39) -- Labor Movement (5:15) -- Labor Strikes (4:39) -- Mother Jones (4:09) -- Ludlow Massacre (4:55) -- "Progressive" Era (3:26) -- Progressive Social Movements (2:21) -- IWW Radicalism (4:30) -- Immigrant Labor Activists (4:59) -- Emma Goldman (6:07) -- American Radicalism (2:20) -- Breaking Strikes (3:44) -- Socialist Legacy (4:43) -- Age of Imperialism (4:42) -- Philippine War (3:28) -- Haiti Occupation (2:35) -- Military Imperialism (2:02) -- Fighting Imperialist Racism (2:38) -- History of Resistance (4:25) -- American Hierarchy (5:25) -- Weakening the Civil Rights Movement (2:13) -- American National Interest Myth (4:25) -- Credits: Howard Zinn: The People's Historian-Part 4: Looking Outward (1863-1915) (0:32)…”
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Howard Zinn: The People's Historian. Independent Production Fund.

Table of Contents: “…Worse than Others (2:14) -- Universal Health Care (3:01) -- Policy Proposals (2:36) -- Credits: Howard Zinn: The People's Historian- Part 5: In The Great Protector's Shadow (1913-1948) (0:32)…”
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Howard Zinn: The People's Historian. Independent Production Fund.

Table of Contents: “…Expansion and War (3:24) -- Resistance Movements (3:32) -- Labor Movement and Blacks (4:54) -- Separatist Movement (2:31) -- Black Power (2:30) -- Vietnam War (2:53) -- Veterans Protest War (4:03) -- Iraq War (2:25) -- Lessons of Vietnam (7:01) -- Covert Action (3:45) -- Aid to Contras (1:44) -- School of the Americas (2:15) -- American Indian Movement (3:31) -- American Indian Values (2:51) -- Gay Rights Movement (6:15) -- Latino Movement (6:08) -- Political Consciousness (5:05) -- Social Movements (4:26) -- Rejection of Objectivity (4:15) -- Defining Power (3:24) -- Citizens Fighting for Rights (5:34) -- America's Future (4:25) -- Credits: Howard Zinn: The People's Historian- Part 6: Beneath the World Power (1948-2005) (0:32)…”
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Jesus's Death - What Historians Can't Know.

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Deceptive practice : the mysteries and mentors of Ricky Jay.

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A Historian Goes to the Movies: Ancient Rome.

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Ideas roadshow. a conversation with David Cannadine / host/director, Howard Burton.

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How Does Medieval Historians' Use of the Notion of 'Europe' Compare to Its Use in the Middle Ages?.

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The Greek World: A Study of History and Culture.

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Civil Rights Historians Discuss Martin Luther King Jr. / MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.

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Civil War's Causes : Historians Largely United on Slavery, But Public Divided / MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.

Table of Contents: “…Civil War's Causes: Historians Largely United on Slavery, But Public Divided…”
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