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Nov 5

Video Screening: A New System of Government (Biography of America)

Topic: Colonies to Constitution and Continental Power, 1607-1789

Rachel Johnson

Nov 12

Video Screening: Westward Expansion (Biography of America)

Topic: U.S. History: An Expanding Republic, 1789-1850

 Brandon B

 Nov 19

Video Screening: The Civil War: The Better Angels of Our Nature

Topic: A House Divided: Sectionalism, Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877

 TBD

 Nov 26

(Thanksgiving Day)

Dec 3

Video Screening: Teddy Roosevelt (American Experience)

Topic: Gilded Age and World Stage, 1877-1914

 Conrad Wong

Dec 10

Video Screening: Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern America—The Roaring Twenties (2007)

Topic: War and Prosperity, 1914-1929

 Tom Leiby

 Dec 17

Video Screening: FDR (American Experience, 1994)

Topic: World in Crisis, 1929-1945

 Mark Zanolli

 Dec 24

 (Christmas Break)

 Dec 31

Video Screening: Mr. Holland’s Opus

Topic: Early Childhood, the Arts and Special Needs Education in the U.S.

 The Roberts

 Jan 7

Video Screening: America in the 20th Century: The Postwar Years (2009)

Topic: Early Cold War Era, 1945-63

 Kurt Aufderheide

 Jan 14

Video Screening: A History of Black Achievement in America: Civil Rights and a New Age (1950 to the present)

Topic: Times of Change, 1963-1980

 TBD

 Jan 21

Video Screening: Ronald Reagan (American Experience, 1998)

Topic: End of the Cold War, 1980-2000

 TBD

 Jan 28

Video Screening: Obama (Biography Channel, 2008)

Topic: New Challenges in a New Era, 2001-present

 Booyeon Allen