SDPB
Educational Programming

Geography in U.S. History

When it airs:  Overnight schedule  

Grades 9-12; Geography/History; Ten 20-minute episodes
Unlimited educational use authorized by SDPB
Investigate the relationship between geography and history. Demonstrate how knowledge of geography contributes to historical understanding, and develop historical and geographical literacy. Help students place historical events and trends in the contexts of time and place, utilizing fundamental geographic themes as organizing principles. Provide students with the perspectives, information, concepts, and skills essential to understanding significant historical developments from 1787 to the present.

101. North v. South in the Founding of the USA 1786-1796

102. Jefferson Decides to Purchase Louisiana (1801: 1813)

103. Civil War and Social Change in Georgia (1860: 1870)

104. Clash of Cultures on the Great Plains (1865: 1890)

105. An Industrial Revolution in Pittsburgh (1865: 1900)

106. Americans Build the Panama Canal (1901: 1914)

107. A Nation of Immigrants: The Chinese-American Experience
(1850: 1990)

108. Moving North to Chicago (1900: 1945)

109. New Deal for the Dust Bowl (1931: 1945)

110. The Origin and Development of NATO (1945: 1991)