Saturday 16 July 2011

Cuba

Cuba

Bay Of Pigs Invasion
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/bay-of-pigs-invasion?playlist=History

Cuban Missile Crisis
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/cuban-missile-crisis?playlist=History

Korean War

Khan Academy
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/korean-war-overview?playlist=History

American History Overview

Videos From Khan Academy


http://www.khanacademy.org/video/us-history-overview-1--jamestown-to-the-civil-war?playlist=History

http://www.khanacademy.org/video/appomattox-court-house-and-lincoln-s-assassination?playlist=History

http://www.khanacademy.org/video/us-history-overview-2---reconstruction-to-the-great-depression?playlist=History

http://www.khanacademy.org/video/us-history-overview-3---wwii-to-vietnam?playlist=History

American Revolution

http://oyc.yale.edu/history/the-american-revolution/

Open Course At Yale

Videos American Civil War

http://oyc.yale.edu/history/civil-war-and-reconstruction

Yale College Course


1. Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination?
2. Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region
3. A Southern World View: the Old South and Proslavery Ideology
4. A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement
5. Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality
6. Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850
7. "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854-55
8. Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58
9. John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?
10. The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis
11. Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?
12. "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies
13. Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862
14. Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863
15. Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy
16. Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War
17. Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War
18. "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad
19. To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings
20. Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic
21. Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction
22. Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President
23. Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor
24. Retreat from Reconstruction: the Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption"
25. The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877"
26. Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory
27. Legacies of the Civil War