AmEx Podcast Central

This lecture “TR and the “New Nationalism” (20.5 mb) deals with the second and third of the “three C’s” of of TR’s “New Nationalism” - conservation and consumer protection. It ends the previous lecture and rounds out TR’s struggle to adapt the principals of American democracy to the new and dynamic but dangerous new realities of industrial life. It talks of the attempt to give a “square deal” to the American citizen.

Speech delivered on February 24, 2006.

This lecture “TR and American Imperialism” (13.4 mb) speaks of the expansive use of power overseas during and after the Spanish-American War - it uses TR as a metaphor for America as a country young but coming into its power. Deals with Cuba, Philippines, Japan, Hawaii, Panama Canal, and Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, and voyage of Great White Fleet around the world. (Into to essay question: [”The American people have the taste of empire in their mouth!” assess the validity of this statement] question.)
Speech delivered on February 24, 2006.

This lecture “Progressive Reformers in Action” (10.8 mb) deals with the late 19th and early 20th century investigative journalists known as the “muckrakers,” and their symbiotic relationship to the Progressive political movement and Theodore Roosevelt.

Speech delivered on February 23, 2006.

This lecture “Cometh the Muckrakers” (22.8 mb) deals with the late 19th and early 20th century investigative journalists known as the “muckrakers,” and their symbiotic relationship to the Progressive political movement and Theodore Roosevelt.

Speech delivered on February 22, 2006.

This lecture “Theodore Roosevelt and the New Nationalism” (24.9 mb) tells the story of the meteoric rise of Eddy Roosevelt to the American Presidency - his family background, early life, passions and motivations, etc. It ends with a general introduction to the “three C’s” and Roosevelt’s “New Nationalism.”

Speech delivered on February 21, 2006. (This speech used in conjunction with “Baraka” blogsite posting.)

This lecture “The Big Split” (21.2 mb) deals with the arrival of Darwin and science, as well as the Civil War, in American intellectual life - and its consequent dividing effects on American Christianity in general, and the weakening of religion in American life generally.” Delivered on February 15, 2006.

This lecture deals with the “masculine” and “feminine” interpretations of Christianity around the turn of the 19th century as Americans debated sex roles and how ‘Jesus would have lived’ in the early 20th century industrial United States. Jane Addams vs. Amos Alonzo Stagg; the “social gospel” vs. the “gospel of wealth.”

Lecture on “The Masculine and Feminine Approaches to Christianity” (21.7 mb) delivered on February 14, 2006.

Here is the lecture on “The Election of 1896” (20.1mb) delivered on February 8, 2006.

Here is the lecture on “Opening and Settling the West” (23.3mb) delivered on February 5, 2006.

Here is the lecture on Populists and Farmer Discontent (16.4mb) delivered on February 6, 2006.