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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries
Season 1 · Episode 39
Historical Lecture: The Promise of Progress
0.041mOctober 23, 2007
Join H.W. Brands, professor of history at the University of Texas Austin, on the changes that occurred in the late-19th and early-20th Centuries.
Episodes
- Episode 1Archaeology: Unearthing Our Past
- Episode 2Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun
- Episode 3Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia
- Episode 4From Slavery to Freedom
- Episode 5Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century
- Episode 6Ecology - Pulse of the Planet
- Episode 7American Dreams - Norman Rockwell & The Saturday Evening Post
- Episode 8Art Rebellion - The Making of the Modern
- Episode 9Edgar Degas - Reluctant Rebel
- Episode 10Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed
- Episode 11Giacomo Puccini - Music of the Heart
- Episode 12It's Opera!
- Episode 13The Archduke's Last Journey - End of an Era
- Episode 14Powder Keg - Europe 1900 to 1914
- Episode 15Sigmund Freud - Exploring the Unconscious
- Episode 16Carl Jung and the Journey to Self Discovery
- Episode 17Psychology - Charting the Human Mind
- Episode 18Seeking Truth - The Life of Leo Tolstoy
- Episode 19Unquiet Voices - Russian Writers and the State
- Episode 20Aristotle - Creating Foundations
- Episode 21Ancient Questions - Philosophy and Our Search for Meaning
- Episode 22Jiddu Krishnamurti - The Reluctant Messiah
- Episode 23Annie Besant - An Unlikely Rebel
- Episode 24Medicine in the Middle Kingdom
- Episode 25Eastern Spirituality - The Road to Enlightenment
- Episode 26Thomas Edison - Lighting Up the World
- Episode 27Invention and Innovation - What's Behind a Good Idea?
- Episode 28The Mystery of Edward Stratemeyer
- Episode 29Wanted: Dead or Alive - Pancho Villa and the American Invasion of Mexico
- Episode 30General John J. Pershing and His American Army
- Episode 31George S. Patton - American Achilles
- Episode 32Easter Rising - The Poets' Rebellion
- Episode 33The Passions of William Butler Yeats
- Episode 34Sean O'Casey vs. Ireland
- Episode 35Ireland - The Power of the Poets
- Episode 36Winston Churchill - The Lion's Roar
- Episode 37Demanding the Vote - The Pankhursts and British Suffrage
- Episode 38Fighting for the Vote - Women's Suffrage in America
- Episode 39Historical Lecture: The Promise of Progress