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The below list of Related Studies includes the numerous doctrines,
treaties, purchases, agreements, acquisitions, acts, policies, compromises, bills, laws, maps, events, proclamations
and wars relating to the territorial expansion of the United States. (There are more than 500 pages of research.)
Recommended Reading:The Radicalism of the American Revolution. From Library Journal:
Historians have always had problems explaining the revolutionary character of the American Revolution: its lack of class conflict,
a reign of terror, and indiscriminate violence make it seem positively sedate. In this beautifully written and persuasively
argued book, one of the most noted of U.S.
historians restores the radicalism to what he terms "one of the greatest revolutions the world has ever known." It was the
American Revolution, Wood argues, that unleashed the social forces that transformed American society in the years between
1760 and 1820. The change from a deferential, monarchical, ordered, and static society to a liberal, democratic, and commercial
one was astonishing, all the more so because it took place without industrialization, urbanization, or the revolution in transportation.
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It was a revolution
of the mind, in which the concept of equality, democracy, and private interest grasped by hundreds of thousands of Americans
transformed a country nearly overnight. Exciting, compelling, and sure to provoke controversy, the book will be discussed
for years to come.
Recommended
Reading:1491: New Revelations
of the Americas Before Columbus.Description: 1491 is not so much the story of a year, as of what that year stands for: the long-debated
(and often-dismissed) question of what human civilization in the Americas
was like before the Europeans crashed the party. The history books most Americans were (and still are) raised on describe
the continents before Columbus as a vast, underused territory,
sparsely populated by primitives whose cultures would inevitably bow before the advanced technologies of the Europeans. For
decades, though, among the archaeologists, anthropologists, paleolinguists, and others whose discoveries Charles C. Mann brings
together in 1491, different stories have been emerging. Among the revelations: the first Americans may not have come over
the Bering land bridge around 12,000 B.C. but by boat along the Pacific coast 10 or even 20 thousand years earlier; the Americas
were a far more urban, more populated, and more technologically advanced region than generally assumed; and the Indians, rather
than living in static harmony with nature, radically engineered the landscape across the continents, to the point that even
"timeless" natural features like the Amazon rainforest can be seen as products of human intervention. Continued below...
Mann is well
aware that much of the history he relates is necessarily speculative, the product of pot-shard interpretation and precise
scientific measurements that often end up being radically revised in later decades. But the most compelling of his eye-opening
revisionist stories are among the best-founded: the stories of early American-European contact. To many of those who were
there, the earliest encounters felt more like a meeting of equals than one of natural domination. And those who came later
and found an emptied landscape that seemed ripe for the taking, Mann argues convincingly, encountered not the natural and
unchanging state of the native American, but the evidence of a sudden calamity: the ravages of what was likely the greatest
epidemic in human history, the smallpox and other diseases introduced inadvertently by Europeans to a population without immunity,
which swept through the Americas faster than the explorers who brought it, and left behind for their discovery a land that
held only a shadow of the thriving cultures that it had sustained for centuries before. Includes outstanding photos and maps.
Recommended Viewing:The History Channel Presents The Revolution (A&E) (600 minutes).
Review: They came of age in a new world amid intoxicating and innovative ideas
about human and civil rights diverse economic systems and self-government. In a few short years these men and women would
transform themselves into architects of the future through the building of a new nation – “a nation unlike any
before.” From the roots of the rebellion and the signing of the Declaration of Independence to victory on the battlefield
at Yorktown
and the adoption of The United States Constitution, THE REVOLUTION tells the remarkable story of this pivotal era in history.
Venturing beyond the conventional list of generals and politicians, THE HISTORY CHANNEL® introduces the full range of individuals
who helped shape this great conflict including some of the war’s most influential unsung heroes. Through sweeping cinematic
recreations intimate biographical investigations and provocative political military and economic analysis the historic ideas
and themes that transformed treasonous acts against the British into noble acts of courage both on and off the battlefield
come to life in this dramatic and captivating program. This TEN HOUR DVD Features:
History in the Making: The Revolution Behind-the-Scenes Featurette; Interactive Menus; Scene Selections.
Recommended Reading: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. Review:
In retrospect, it seems as if the American Revolution was inevitable. But was it? In Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis reveals
that many of those truths we hold to be self-evident were actually fiercely contested in the early days of the republic. Ellis
focuses on six crucial moments in the life of the new nation, including a secret dinner at which the seat of the nation's
capital was determined--in exchange for support of Hamilton's financial plan; Washington's precedent-setting Farewell Address; and the Hamilton and Burr duel. Most interesting,
perhaps, is the debate (still dividing scholars today) over the meaning of the Revolution. Continued below...
In a fascinating chapter on the renewed friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson at the
end of their lives, Ellis points out the fundamental differences between the Republicans, who saw the Revolution as a liberating
act and hold the Declaration of Independence most sacred, and the Federalists, who saw the revolution as a step in the building
of American nationhood and hold the Constitution most dear. Throughout the text, Ellis explains the personal, face-to-face
nature of early American politics--and notes that the members of the revolutionary generation were conscious of the fact that
they were establishing precedents on which future generations would rely. In Founding Brothers, Ellis
(whose American Sphinx won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1997) has written an elegant and engaging narrative,
sure to become a classic. Highly recommended.
Recommended
Viewing:500 Nations(372 minutes).Description:500 Nations is an eight-part documentary (more than 6 hours and that's not including its interactive CD-ROM
filled with extra features) that explores the history of the indigenous peoples of North and Central America, from pre-Colombian
times through the period of European contact and colonization, to the end of the 19th century and the subjugation of the Plains
Indians of North America. 500 Nations utilizes historical texts, eyewitness
accounts, pictorial sources and computer graphic reconstructions to explore the magnificent civilizations which flourished
prior to contact with Western civilization, and to tell the dramatic and tragic story of the Native American nations' desperate
attempts to retain their way of life against overwhelming odds. Continued below...
Mention the
word "Indian," and most will conjure up images inspired by myths and movies: teepees, headdresses, and war paint; Sitting
Bull, Geronimo, Crazy Horse, and their battles (like Little Big Horn) with the U.S. Cavalry. Those stories of the so-called
"horse nations" of the Great
Plains are all here, but so is a great deal more. Using impressive computer imaging, photos, location film footage
and breathtaking cinematography, interviews with present-day Indians, books and manuscripts, museum artifacts, and more, Leustig
and his crew go back more than a millennium to present an fascinating account of Indians, including those (like the Maya and
Aztecs in Mexico and the Anasazi in the Southwest) who were here long before white men ever reached these shores. It was
the arrival of Europeans like Columbus, Cortez, and DeSoto that marked the beginning of the end for the Indians. Considering
the participation of host Kevin Costner, whose film Dances with Wolves was highly sympathetic to the Indians, it's no bulletin
that 500 Nations also takes a compassionate view of the multitude of calamities--from alcohol and disease to the corruption
of their culture and the depletion of their vast natural resources--visited on them by the white man in his quest for land
and money, eventually leading to such horrific events as the Trail of Tears "forced march," the massacre at Wounded Knee,
and other consequences of the effort to "relocate" Indians to the reservations where many of them still live. Along the way,
we learn about the Indians' participation in such events as the American Revolution and the War of 1812, as well as popular
legends like the first Thanksgiving (it really happened) and the rescue of Captain John Smith by Pocahontas (it probably didn't).
Recommended Viewing: The
History of the United States of America (PBS, A&E, HISTORY CHANNEL, THE BIOGRAPHY CHANNEL, MILITARY CHANNEL, MILITARY
HISTORY CHANNEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC)
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