Displaying 1 of 1 2024 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: 10 great what-ifs of American history / Adam Jortner. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2024] ©2024 Description: 2 videodiscs : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 74 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm) 4 3/4 in. digital optical video file DVD video region 1 auditory captions Summary: "10 Great What-Ifs of American History offers you the chance to ponder some of the most captivating counterfactuals in the story of our nation. Over 10 eye-opening lectures, Professor Adam Jortner of Auburn University walks you through some of the most astonishing chance events in American history, from the signing of the Constitution to the moon landing. Joining him are six experts, hand-selected for their depth of knowledge in particular aspects of US history. Together, Professor Jortner and his colleagues take you through a mind-bending exploration of the history that could have been. Captivating storytellers and imaginative thinkers, these experts ask how much of history is shaped by split-second decisions, near misses, and sheer dumb luck."-- Provided by publisher. Series: The great courses. History. American history Great courses (DVD). History. American history. Subjects: United States -- History -- Miscellanea. Genre: Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Educational films. Lectures. Nonfiction films. Other Author: Jortner, Adam, lecturer. Teaching Company, publisher. Other Title: Ten great what-ifs of American history Notes: "Course no. 30620"--Disc labels. 10 lectures. Lecturer, Professor Adam Jortner, Auburn University. DVD, full screen presentation. English. Closed-captioned. Contents: Disc 1. What if Lee won at Gettysburg? -- What if Lewis and Clark vanished? -- What if the allies lost World War II? -- What if the Soviets got to the moon first? -- What is the Constitution did not pass? Disc 2. What if Columbus never "discovered" America? -- What if Lincoln never issued the Emancipation Proclamatoin? -- What if the Salem Witch Trails never happened? -- What if Nat Turner succeeded? -- What if JFK survived? ISBN: 1644656264 9781644656266 Publisher Number: PD30620A ID30620A-01 Other Number: 1430357728 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 1057624 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: GREAT DVD 973 Ten grea Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
