(Topics for Random Access
Study from Digital Video Disk)
No matter how favorable its ratings and reviews, the television
broadcast of Things of the Spirit will not permanently
change the popular and pedagogic opinion of Calvin Coolidge. Ultimately,
it is the continuing educational use of Things of the Spirit
on interactive digital video disk (DVD) which will significantly
affect Calvin Coolidge's place in history. This outline is designed
for teachers and students as they compare the issues, attitudes
and values of the Coolidge era with their own. The episodes of
the film are grouped under specific topics relating to the personal
and political life of our 30th President. Random access study
of these topics from the digital video disk of Things of the
Spirit can be supplemented with related print and Web-based
material.
Economic Issues:
Tax Cuts
The Coolidge Prosperity
Crash and Depression
Farm Subsidies
Welfare Capitalism |
Political Issues:
Massachusetts Politics
The Strike
The Road to Normalcy
The Limitations of the Law
The President
Campaign 1924
Tax Cuts
Toleration and Liberalism
Farm Subsidies
I Do Not Choose To Run
Wonder Boy |
Social Change:
Campaign 1924
Our First Talking President
Modern Times
Welfare Capitalism
Commanders in Chief
Foreign Policy:
Spreading the American
Dream
 Part
I -- Foreign Policy
Part
II -- War Debts
Part
III -- The Dream
Our Man in Havana
Biography / Historiography:
Prologue
Transition
Weaned on a Pickle
The Needs of Education
Massachusetts Politics
I Thought I Could Swing It
Power and the Glory
Amazing Grace
The Business of America
Photo-Op
Your Son, Calvin Coolidge
I Do Not Choose To Run
Saint Calvin
Wonder Boy
I Know My Work Is Done |
Things of the Spirit:
Prologue
Weaned on a Pickle
The Needs of Education
The Limitations of the Law
Your Son, Calvin Coolidge
The Things That Are Unseen
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