Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Publisher, Date:

Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2021]

Description:

4 videodiscs (approximately 703 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 226 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

auditory captions

Series:

The great courses. History. American history.

Great courses (DVD). Modern history. American history.

Subjects:

United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography.

Genre:

Lectures.

Educational films.

Instructional films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Bell, Richard, 1978- lecturer.

Teaching Company, production company.

Notes:

"Course No. 30240"--Container.

28 lectures (30 min. each).

Course guidebook includes professor biography, course scope, lecture guides, and bibliography.

Includes bibliographical references in course guidebook (pages 221-226).

Lecturer, Richard Bell, University of Maryland, College Park.

DVD.

In English; closed-captioned.

Contents:

Ordinary lives in Revolutionary times -- Down and out in Colinial America -- Jane Mecom: Franklin's struggling sister -- Boycotting the Townshend Taxes -- Ebenezer Mackintosh: Stamp Act protestor -- The occupation of Boston -- Crispus Attucks: the Massacre's martyr -- Sailors, shoemakers, crowds, and class -- George Hewes: Tea Party captain -- Forging a common cause in the colonies -- Tom Paine: immigrant pamphleteer -- Colonial soldiering life -- Deborah Sampson: woman soldier -- War on the American home front -- Mary Silliman: soldier's wife -- The Revolution in Indian Country -- Molly Brant: native power broker -- The African American Revolution -- Thomas Jeremiah: free black pilot -- The price of loyalism -- Harry Washington: runaway rebel -- An American worker's Revolution -- Daniel Shays: veteran turned rebel -- An American sexual revolution -- Martha Ballard: a midwife's tale -- An American racial revolution -- Richard Allen: freedom's prophet -- The unfinished Revolution.

ISBN:

9781644651414

1644651416

Other Number:

1272913332

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

943681

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

GREAT DVD 973.3092 Ordinary