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The following list represents all of the e-seminars available in History. Using the search box to the left, narrow your results by searching for resources developed by a specific professor.
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| | America Since 1945—E-Seminar 2, The Politics of Anticommunism
| | Alan Brinkley |
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In this e-seminar, the second in a series of ten, Professor Brinkley examines the Cold War, a key event during the "the postwar era," 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. He analyzes the Cold War as a force in American domestic life, one that had an important impact on the relationships among and the distribution of power within many of the central institutions of American life. Enter.
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| | America Since 1945—E-Seminar 3, The Stable Fifties
| | Alan Brinkley |
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In The Stable Fifties, the third e-seminar in the series America Since 1945, Professor Alan Brinkley examines the shift in American economics and culture that occurred after World War II. While many other combatant countries faced a slow rebuilding period after the war's end, the United States celebrated a vast and steady economic boom that began during the war and continued for the next twenty years. Professor Brinkley examines aspects of American middle-class culture during the Eisenhower years, including the rise of television and the expansion of the suburbs. He also offers a perspective on the Eisenhower presidency. Enter.
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| | America Since 1945—E-Seminar 4, The Subversive Fifties
| | Alan Brinkley |
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In The Subversive Fifties, the fourth e-seminar in the series America Since 1945, the eminent historian Alan Brinkley discusses a variety of early counterculture movements—literary, social, and environmental—whose origins date back to the 1950s and early 1960s. He also covers the roots of the civil-rights movement, discussing the Montgomery bus boycott, in which Martin Luther King Jr. first gained national attention. Enter.
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| | America Since 1945—E-Seminar 5, Kennedy, Johnson, and the Great Society
| | Alan Brinkley |
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In Kennedy, Johnson, and the Great Society, the fifth e-seminar in the series America Since 1945, the eminent historian Alan Brinkley focuses on the administrations of Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Professor Brinkley compares and contrasts these two great figures of the 1960s and analyzes the social programs, such as the Great Society and the war on poverty, that became landmarks of the period. Enter.
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| | America Since 1945—E-Seminar 6, The Civil-Rights Movement
| | Alan Brinkley |
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In The Civil-Rights Movement, the sixth of ten e-seminars in the series America Since 1945, historian Alan Brinkley discusses one of the most important social movements in twentieth-century American history. He analyzes the events that propelled and shaped the civil-rights movement, the growing national awareness of racial inequalities in America, and the social policies that were created in response to those inequalities. Enter.
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| | America Since 1945—E-Seminar 7, The Vietnam War
| | Alan Brinkley |
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In The Vietnam War, the seventh of ten e-seminars in the series America Since 1945, historian Alan Brinkley discusses the policies and decisions that led to the expansion of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Enter.
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| | America Since 1945—E-Seminar 8, Cultural Revolutions
| | Alan Brinkley |
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In Cultural Revolutions, the eighth of ten e-seminars in the series America Since 1945, historian Alan Brinkley discusses the turbulent years of the 1960s and the broad social changes that altered cultural and individual expression in American society. Enter.
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| | America Since 1945—E-Seminar 9, The Age of Limits
| | Alan Brinkley |
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In The Age of Limits, the penultimate e-seminar in the series America Since 1945, Professor Alan Brinkley examines the shift in the prevailing outlook and worldview of Americans during the 1970s, as assumptions about economic abundance and American power gave way to a new awareness of scarcity and constraints. Enter.
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| | America Since 1945—E-Seminar 10, The Rise of the Right
| | Alan Brinkley |
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In The Rise of the Right, the final e-seminar in the ten-part series America Since 1945, historian Alan Brinkley discusses the emergence of conservatism as a powerful political and cultural force in the United States during the past quarter-century. Enter.
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| | America and the Muslim World—E-Seminar 1, Battles and Bibles: 1776-1913
| | Richard W. Bulliet |
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This e-seminar examines the history of America and its relation to the Muslim world. The series will analyze, from an American perspective, the legacy of misunderstanding between the two cultures; the forgotten wars, now over a century ago, between America and parts of the Islamic world; and the emergence of a significant Muslim population in the United States through immigration and conversion. Enter.
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