American History course announcements

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Sep 21, 2015

This semester, you will access most of your weekly reading assignments as well as all the other study materials electronically, via the internet. Your "coursebook" is called A Biography of America. This is in fact a telecourse -- video series and a web site in one designed by US university professors and produced by WGBH Boston and funded by Annenberg Media, U.S. Apart from all reading materials, the Biography of America website gives you the possibility to watch all the accompanying videos online, free of charge. Please follow the instructions to make full use of the website materials.

1. Go to http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/
2. To play videos: E.g. select chapter one The New World Encounters. Find Transcript and click the video icon (VoD).

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Check out the video for topic 4 -- Westward Expansion in Seminar preparation.