The History of the United States

This 84-lecture series features three top professors sharing insights into this nation's past, from European settlement and Revolutionary War through Civil War, 19th-century industrialization, world wars, and today. This course provides a lucid picture into factors that enabled the U.S. to become the largest, wealthiest, most powerful democratic republic in history, including its: sense of confidence and national destiny religiousity and belief in virtue abundance of natural resources and entrepreneurial talent ability to accept a diverse array of immigrants success in making democracy work as reality rather than as theory. This sweeping series reveals vital and often overlooked aspects of U.S. history as well as new insights into well-known people, ideas, inventions, and occurrences.