Studying history at Berkeley

Pr. Jennifer Burns, a history teacher from Berkeley, California, offers all her lectures to pod-casters. She covers 2/3rds of the period that we are studying at the UCP and listening to her lectures is an excellent way of improving your English and your understanding of American history. The lectures you will find most interesting to complete and review what we cover together are :
The Civil War and its aftermath
Reconstruction
Gilded Age politics
Workers and Unions
Progressivism
Social Thought in the Gilded Age.

Seminar 5 will be on Native Americans, the following lectures will provide you with the required background information :
The Conquest of the West
The Settling of the West

For seminar 6 on immigration, you will learn a lot by listening to the lectures on :
Immigrant culture
Meaning of whiteness

If you want to prepare for the lectures I will be giving after the break you can listen to :
The Roaring 20's and The Scopes Trial
The 1920's: The Jazz Age
The Great Depression and New Deal
New Deal, Part 2

You will find all these podcasts on Berkeley's website. If you have a MP3 player, you can download the MP3 files onto your computer and then copy them into your player.
If you have an i-pod, go to the i-store and search for "History 7B" or "Jennifer Burns". You can then subscribe to the entire series of podcasts or download them one by one.

If you want to find out more about Jennifer Burns check out her website.