The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries · SEASON 1
Historical Lecture: The Promise of Progress
Episode 39 · 2007-10-23

- Documentary
Episode overview
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.
41 minutes
Season 1 episodes
1. Archaeology: Unearthing Our Past2007-10-23
2. Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun2007-10-23
3. Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia2007-10-23
4. From Slavery to Freedom2007-10-23
5. Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century2007-10-23
6. Ecology - Pulse of the Planet2007-10-23
7. American Dreams - Norman Rockwell & The Saturday Evening Post2007-10-23
8. Art Rebellion - The Making of the Modern2007-10-23
9. Edgar Degas - Reluctant Rebel2007-10-23
10. Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed2007-10-23
11. Giacomo Puccini - Music of the Heart2007-10-23
12. It's Opera!2007-10-23
13. The Archduke's Last Journey - End of an Era2007-10-23
14. Powder Keg - Europe 1900 to 19142007-10-23
15. Sigmund Freud - Exploring the Unconscious2007-10-23
16. Carl Jung and the Journey to Self Discovery2007-10-23
17. Psychology - Charting the Human Mind2007-10-23
18. Seeking Truth - The Life of Leo Tolstoy2007-10-23
19. Unquiet Voices - Russian Writers and the State2007-10-23
20. Aristotle - Creating Foundations2007-10-23
21. Ancient Questions - Philosophy and Our Search for Meaning2007-10-23
22. Jiddu Krishnamurti - The Reluctant Messiah2007-10-23
23. Annie Besant - An Unlikely Rebel2007-10-23
24. Medicine in the Middle Kingdom2007-10-23
25. Eastern Spirituality - The Road to Enlightenment2007-10-23
26. Thomas Edison - Lighting Up the World2007-10-23
27. Invention and Innovation - What's Behind a Good Idea?2007-10-23
28. The Mystery of Edward Stratemeyer2007-10-23
29. Wanted: Dead or Alive - Pancho Villa and the American Invasion of Mexico2007-10-23
30. General John J. Pershing and His American Army2007-10-23
31. George S. Patton - American Achilles2007-10-23
32. Easter Rising - The Poets' Rebellion2007-10-23
33. The Passions of William Butler Yeats2007-10-23
34. Sean O'Casey vs. Ireland2007-10-23
35. Ireland - The Power of the Poets2007-10-23
36. Winston Churchill - The Lion's Roar2007-10-23
37. Demanding the Vote - The Pankhursts and British Suffrage2007-10-23
38. Fighting for the Vote - Women's Suffrage in America2007-10-23
39. Historical Lecture: The Promise of Progress2007-10-23