(10-AUDIO CD DISC SET) The Forces That Shaped America ~ History Winter Lecture Series 2007

Recorded January and February, 2007 ~ Join us as Professor Richard R. Johnson returns to present the College of Arts and Sciences History Lectures. In this five-part series, Professor Johnson explores the lives and work of the first founders, those who created the societies of early North America. Beginning with America?s first inhabitants-the Indians from the Northwest-Professor Johnson examines the effects, at once creative and catastrophic, of the arrival of new European and African peoples from across the Atlantic. Competing empires that rose and fell, set the stage for English colonies as they spread along the eastern seaboard. Johnson explores the fierce clash of race and culture and examines the interweaving of politics and religion. Finally, he examines the forces that forged new states and social systems, all of which ultimately shape the emergence of the United States. Audio CD #1 & #2 ~ "A Clash of Continents" ~ After millennia of separate development, contrast