Displaying 1 of 1 2001 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: A history of freedom / J. Rufus Fears. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., ©2001. Description: 6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (65, 73, 63 pages ; 22 cm). Summary: Professor J. Rufus Fears of the University of Oklahoma presents lectures concerning the history of freedom from ancient civilization to the twentieth century. Series: The Great courses Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history. Subjects: Liberty. Civilization -- History. Genre: Documentary films. Other Author: Fears, J. Rufus, 1945-2012. Teaching Company. Notes: In three parts (containers). Each part consists of twelve lecteres on six discs. Course guidebooks include bibliographical references. Lecturer: J. Rufus Fears. DVD, region 1. Contents: pt. I: lecture 1. The birth of freedom -- lecture 2. Athenian democracy -- lecture 3. Athens: freedom and cultural creativity -- lecture 4. Athenian tragedy: education for freedom -- lecture 5. Socrates on trial -- lecture 6. Alexander the Great -- lecture 7. The Roman Republic -- lecture 8. Julius Caesar -- lecture 9. Freedom in the Roman Empire -- lecture 10. Rome: freedom and cultural creativity -- lecture 11. Gibbon on Rome's decline and fall -- lecture 12. Jesus ; pt. II: lecture 13. Jesus & Socrates -- lecture 14. Paul the Apostle -- lecture 15. Freedom in the Middle Ages --lecture 16. Luther & the Protestant Reformation -- lecture 17. From Machiavelli to the divine right of kings -- lecture 18. The Anglo-American tradition of liberty -- lecture 19. The shot heard 'round the world -- lecture 20. The tyranny of George III -- lecture 21. What the Declaration of Independence says -- lecture 22. Natural law & the Declaration -- lecture 23. Miracle at Philadelphia -- lecture 24. What the Constitution says ; pt. III: lecture 25. The Bill of Rights -- lecture 26. Liberty & Lee at Gettysburg -- lecture 27. Liberty & Lincoln at Gettysburg -- lecture 28. FDR & the progressive tradition -- lecture 29. Why the French Revolution failed -- lecture 30. The Liberal tradition -- lecture 31. Churchill & the war for freedom -- lecture 32. The illiberal tradition -- lecture 33. Hitler & the war against freedom -- lecture 34. The Cold War -- lecture 35. Civil disobedience & social change -- lecture 36. Freedom & the lessons of history. ISBN: 1565857097 9781565857094 Publisher Number: 480 481--483 Other Number: 54802391 System Availability: 3 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 3 Control Number: 547422 # Local items in: 3 # System items in: 3 Call Number: GREAT DVD 323 History Place Hold Please select and request a specific volume by clicking one of the icons in the 'Availability' section below. Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
