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| | Biography of the AIDS Epidemic: Creating an Oral-History Project—E-Seminar 1, From Idea to Interview: Launching an Oral-History Project
| | Ronald Bayer and Gerald Oppenheimer |
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In the first of two e-seminars on their oral history of the AIDS epidemic, Professors Bayer and Oppenheimer take the student on a tour through the planning of their oral-history project. Through anecdotes, constructive advice and tips, collected readings and resources, and sample planning documents, you will learn to conduct interviews for an oral-history project and to address sensitive issues that may arise during and after the interviews. You will also learn to use oral-history materials to construct a nonarchival project, and to present and evaluate your project. Enter.
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| | Biography of the AIDS Epidemic: Creating an Oral-History Project—E-Seminar 2, Talk to Text: Completing an Oral-History Project
| | Ronald Bayer and Gerald Oppenheimer |
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In this second of two e-seminars on their oral-history of the AIDS epidemic, Professors Bayer and Oppenheimer take the student on a tour through the execution of their own oral-history project. Through anecdotes, constructive advice and tips, collected readings and resources, and sample documents, you will become well versed in the issues that need to be addressed before beginning an oral history project, and become equipped to complete the steps needed to plan your oral-history project to the point of conducting interviews. Enter.
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| | The Origins of the First World War
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In this e-seminar Volker R. Berghahn, Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University, explores the international developments and pressures, and the decisions made by German leaders that inexorably led to the First World War. Photographs, maps, and primary documents complement Professor Berghahn's dramatic and lucid account. Enter.
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| | Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945—E-Seminar 1, The Crisis of Victorianism
| | Casey Nelson Blake |
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Between the end of the Civil War and 1900, educated Americans reacted against Victorian values. In the first in a series of e-seminars, Casey Blake describes the new attitudes about the future, the separation of the sexes, masculinity, and the role of women. He concludes by reflecting on the beginnings of modernism at the end of the nineteenth century. Enter.
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| | Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945—E-Seminar 2, The Search for a Scientific Culture
| | Casey Nelson Blake |
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By the end of the nineteenth century, science and technology were exerting a tremendous influence on life in the United States. In this second e-seminar of the series, Casey Nelson Blake explores why Darwin's ideas seemed so revolutionary and how Darwinism helped to move the United States toward a more secular and scientific modern culture. Enter.
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| | Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945—E-Seminar 3, Pragmatism and Its Critics
| | Casey Nelson Blake |
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In this third e-seminar of the series Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890-1945, Casey Nelson Blake explores the philosophy of pragmatism, details the lives and contributions of James and Dewey, and describes the critiques of pragmatist thought. Enter.
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| | Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945—E-Seminar 4, Ethnic Pluralism
| | Casey Nelson Blake |
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In this fourth e-seminar of the series Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890-1945, Casey Nelson Blake presents the range of early-twentieth-century responses to immigration, including arguments for diversity and the contribution of W.E.B. Du Bois. Enter.
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| | Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945—E-Seminar 6, The Rise of Consumer Culture
| | Casey Nelson Blake |
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In this seminar, the sixth of the series Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945, Professor Casey Nelson Blake describes the consumer culture of the 1920s and Middle America's ambivalent embrace of it. Enter.
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| | Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945—E-Seminar 7, The Culture of "The People"
| | Casey Nelson Blake |
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In this seminar, the seventh of the series Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945, Professor Casey Nelson Blake elucidates the impact of the Great Depression, the radical critiques that arose in response, and the legacy of a new form of culture celebrating "the people." Enter.
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| | America Since 1945—E-Seminar 1, The Post–New Deal Order
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What was once routinely known as "the postwar era" is now a period of more than half a century, during which the United States has probably changed more rapidly and profoundly than during any other period of its history. Historian Alan Brinkley offers an introduction to and a framework for understanding the United States since 1945. Enter.
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