Reel History for The Classroom
Video Clips from The History Channel
to accompany
The American Experiment: A History of the United States, Second Edition
Steven M. Gillon and Cathy D. Matson
Volume 1
VHS Tape 1 - Chapters 1-10
Chapter 1: Out of Old Worlds, New Worlds
Clip 1.1: America’s First Inhabitants
Clip 1.2: Columbus and First Contact
Chapter 2: The First Experiments, 1540-1680
Clip 2.1: John White’s Return to Roanoke in 1590.
Clip 2.2: Native Americans and the Virginia Colony Explorers
Chapter 3: Imperial Connections, 1660-1748
Clip3.1: The Story of the Salem Witch Trials
Chapter 4: Colonial Maturation and Conflict, 1680-1754
Clip 4.1: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Slave Ship, Henrietta Marie
Chapter 5: Forging the American Experiment, 1754-1775
Clip 5.1: The Boston Massacre and Trial
Clip 5.2: Samuel Adams, John Hancock and The Sons of Liberty
Chapter 6: Winning Independence, 1775-1783
Clip 6.1: Israel Putnam and the battle of Breed’s Hill
Clip 6.2: Thomas Paine and Common Sense
Chapter 7: The Federal Experiment, 1783-1800
Clip7.1: Jay’s Treaty
Clip 7.2: Jefferson’s Presidency and the Federalists
Chapter 8: Striving for Nationhood, 1800-1824
Clip 8.1: The Louisiana Purchase
Clip 8.2: The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Chapter 9: An Emerging Capitalist Nation, 1790-1820
Clip 9.1: The Story of the Erie Canal
Clip 9.2: The Start of the Textile Industry (Samuel Slater, child labor, machines)
Chapter 10: Transforming the Political Culture, 1820-1840
Clip 10.1: Jackson’s Election to the Presidency and the Death of his Wife, Rachel
Clip 10.2: Jackson, the Indian Removal Policy, and Nullification
Volume 1
VHS Tape 2 - Chapters 11-16
Chapter 11: Industry and Reform in the North, 1820-1850
Clip 11.1: Irish Catholic Immigrants
Clip11.2: The Lowell Mills
Chapter 12: Slavery and Plantation Culture, 1820-1850
Clip 12.1: The Underground Railroad
Clip12.2: Abolitionists: William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglas
Chapter 13: The Westward Experiment, 1820-1850
Clip 13.1: The California Gold Rush
Chapter 14: The Sectional Challenge, 1848-1860
Clip 14.1: The Kansas-Nebraska Act and John Brown
Clip 14.2: The Lincoln Douglas Debates and the Creation of the Republican Party
Chapter 15: Transforming the Experiment, The Civil War, 1861-1865
Clip 15.1: Gettysburg
Clip 15.2: John Wilkes Booth and the Assassination of Lincoln
Chapter 16: Reconstruction and The New South, 1865-1900
Clip 16.1: Appomattox and the End of the Civil War
Clip16.2: The Birth of the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Codes and the Reconstruction Act of 1867
Volume 2
VHS Tape 1 - Chapters 16-23
Chapter 16: Reconstruction and The New South, 1865-1900
Clip 16.1: Appomattox and the End of the Civil War
Clip16.2: The Birth of the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Codes and the Reconstruction Act of 1867
Chapter 17: Conquering the New West, 1862-1900
Clip 17.1: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
Clip 17.2: The Battle of the Little Bighorn
Chapter 18: The Industrial Experiment, 1865-1900
Clip 18.1: Andrew Carnegie’s Steel Works, and the Pinkerton’s at Homestead
Clip18.2: John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust, Edison’s electric lamp, and Ford’s automobile
Chapter 19: The New Urban Nation, 1865-1900
Clip 19.1: Immigrants at Ellis Island
Clip19.2: Italian Immigrants
Chapter 20: State and Society, 1877-1900
Clip 20.1: Social and Cultural History at the Turn of the Century
Clip 20.2: William McKinley’s Assassination
Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1889-1916
Clip 21.1: The Rise of Industrial Trusts Leads to Trust Busting
Clip 21.2: Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and The Bull Moose Party
Chapter 22: The American Experiment in American Empire, 1865-1917
Clip 22.1: The Sinking of The U.S.S. Maine and the Spanish American War
Clip 22.2: The Story of the Panama Canal
Chapter 23: Making the World Safe for Democracy: America and World War I, 1914-1920
Clip 23.1: The Start of World War I
Clip 23.2: Airplane Pilots in World War I
Chapter 24: The New Era, 1920-1928
Clip 24.1: The Early Days of Radio
Clip 24.2: Prohibition
Volume 2
VHS Tape 2 - Chapters 24-32
Chapter 25: “Fear Itself”: Crash, Depression, and The New Deal, 1929 - 1938
Clip 25.1: Black Thursday and the Stock Market Crash of 1929
Clip 25.2: The Great Depression and Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal
Chapter 26: War and Society, 1933-1945
Clip 26.1: The Attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s Decision to Enter World War II
Clip 26.2: The Normandy Invasion
Chapter 27: The Cold War, 1945-1952
Clip 27.1: Flashpoint Berlin
Clip 27.2: The Korean War and General McArthur
Chapter 28: The Consumer Society, 1945-1960
Clip 28.1: The Rise of the Suburbs: Levittown
Clip 28.2: Model Family Life: The Ozzie and Harriet TV Show and the TV Dinner
Chapter 29: Consensus and Confrontation, 1960-1968
Clip 29.1: John F. Kennedy and The Bay of Pigs
Clip 29.2: The Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 30: The Politics of Polarization, 1969-1979
Clip 30.1: Nixon, Watergate and the Watergate Hearings
Clip 30.2: The Resignation of President Nixon
Chapter 31: The Reagan Experiment, 1979-1988
Clip 31.1: Michael Deaver on Ronald Reagan
Clip31.2: James Baker on Ronald Reagan
Chapter 32: America After the Cold War, 1988-2000
Clip 32.1: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Clip 32.2: The Gulf War