Grades: 9-12
Duration: Twenty-six, 30-minute episodes
Closed Cationed
Producer: Dallas Community College
America’s Development After 1877
Transforming America takes students to the places where American history happened and gives voice to the people who lived
there. Each of the 26 episodes shows how the strengths of the medium - “sight and sound, color and motion” - carry us into the
human stories of choice and consequence that bring history to life.
The 26 half-hour programs of Transforming America include commentary from a rich array of scholars and participants.
These experts provide students and viewers with special insights and interpretations to enhance understanding of the
discussions topics. Recurring experts analyze themes and topics emphasized throughout the course – freedom, equality and
national identity, and how these qualities have been transformed during the 20th century and into the 21st century.
RECURRING EXPERTS –
Clayborne Carson, Stanford University
Eric Foner, Columbia University
David Gutierrez, University of California at San Diego
Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University
Patricia Limerick, University of Colorado
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American identity, freedom, and equality at the end of Reconstruction.
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Explore the changing American West of the late 19th century.
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Millions of immigrants move to the cities.
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Why women did not always attain the American Dream.
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Industrialization changed the nature of work.
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Farmers organize and challenge the established political powers.
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As the 19th century ends, America looks outward.
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Progressive reform and the paradox of segregation is assessed.
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America enters World War I with the Allies in 1917.
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The 1920's usher in a new era of modern times!
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The crash of 1929 and the Hoover administration analyzed.
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Roosevelt's new deal delivered important political and economic reforms.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor takes America to war.
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How the war transformed the world and America.
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How the cold war transformed the world is examined.
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Americans pursue happiness in the late 1940s and 1950s.
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Freedom and equality for all Americans moves toward a greater degree of reality.
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Understand the "winds of change" in the 1960s and 1970s.
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The U.S. continues to grapple with dangerous issues in the world arena.
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Watergate and Vietnam confirm public mistrust of the politics and government.
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Resurging conservative politics for the last quarter of the 20th century are examined.
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What made the American economy head in a different direction?
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The pace of American life quickens.
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America must adjust its role in the world.
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Looking forward, how might we secure a more perfect union for posterity?
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