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Zane: US History: Reconstruction
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Explore the difficulties of rebuilding a nation torn asunder by civil
war. A 30-minute multimedia presentation with more than 400 images
examines the United States in the decades following the Civil War.
Learn about the efforts of freed slaves and their Republican allies to
gain equality in postwar America, and trace the stubborn attempts of the
South to suppress the rights of blacks through elaborate legal codes and
intimidation. Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Mac
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Zane: US History: Social Reform Movements
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How does a society address the need for massive social change? A
65-minute multimedia presentation, with more than 800 images, surveys
reform movements in America, showing how they emerged from an
ever-changing national conscience. Explore the crusade to end slavery
in the 1800s; the activism of the Progressive Era, when reformers worked
to stop the abuses of big business and industry; and the welfare reforms
and unionism of the 1930s.
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Zane: US History: The American Journey, Interactive Edition
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Explore the interactions of the people of North America, West Africa,
and Europe as they inhabit separate worlds after 1492, Christopher
Columbus's first voyage to North America. Witness Spain's establishment
to North American colonies. Study the powerful challenges both to
Indian control and to the Spanish monopoly of settlement. Includes a
175-minute multimedia presentation and more than 200 photos with 54
video clips.
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Zane: US History: The Civil War Two Views
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Understand the bloody conflict that was fought for the preservation of
the Union. A 75-minute multimedia presentation, featuring more than 800
images, examines the philosophical and economic clashes between North
and South in the decades before the war. Follow the war from Fort
Sumter to Appomattox. Learn about the Emancipation Proclamation and the
bitter postwar period, when freed slaves fought for a place in American
society.
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Zane: US History: The Great Depression
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Explore the economic and social conditions that contributed to the
Great Depression, and survey the upheavals triggered by the stock
market's collapse in 1929. A 70-minute multimedia presentation examines
the excesses of the Roaring Twenties, reveals the effects of the
depression on American society, and shows how President Franklin
Roosevelt's New Deal programs attempted to pull the country out of
economic crisis. More than 750 images enhance the presentation.
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Zane: World Hist: Causes of WW 2
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Lean how the consequences of the First World War sowed the seeds for an
even greater global conflict. A 50-minute presentation explores the
effects of the worldwide depression of the 1930s and traces the rise of
totalitarian regimes in Germany, Italy, Japan, and Spain. Discover how
the world became divided into three major power blocks, and how the
Munich Pact of 1938 opened the door to German aggression. Includes
more than 450 images.
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Zane: World Hist: Columbus and the Age of Discovery
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Discover how the world changed in 1492 when Columbus sailed across the
uncharted waters of the Atlantic Ocean in search of a western passage to
the Indies. This informative CD-ROM explains what Europeans knew of
world geography before his voyage to the New World, beginning with the
discoveries made by Alexander the Great and ancient explorers. Includes
a 60-minute multimedia presentation and more than 625 photos.
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Zane: World Hist: Discovering World History
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Based on the best-selling text, The Heritage of World Civilizations,
Fourth Edition, this CD-ROM takes you on a journey from the birth of
civilization in the Near East through the Renaissance and the Age of
Enlightenment and into the present era of global conflict and change.
Examine the roles of the world's great religious and philosophical
traditions and watch the rise and fall of civilization's great
empires. Includes a 140-minute multimedia presentation and more than
1180 photos.
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Zane: World Hist: Imperialism
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Much of world history deals with the building and crumbling of empires,
from the beginnings of recorded history to the present day. The term imperialism, however,--"the policy and practice of forming and
maintaining an empire," according to one dictionary--usually refers to
the great overseas empires of Europe during the past five hundred years.
This set will focus on three examples of European imperialism in action.
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Zane: World Hist: The French Revolution
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The prolonged political and social struggle between 1789 and 1799 in
France that involved the overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of
the First Republic.
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