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Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (43 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A popular President whose respect for natural beauty was unequaled, and whose foreign policy brought several new territories under US control, Theodore Roosevelt takes the final space on Mount Rushmore.
42) Thomas Jefferson
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (45 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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The author of the Declaration of Independence, a strong voice for the defense of liberty, and the architect behind the largest territorial expansion in United States history, this episode examines Thomas Jefferson’s rightful place on Mount Rushmore..
43) Abraham Lincoln
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (47 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A champion of the American Union in its darkest hour, Abraham Lincoln’s unbreakable faith in the United States and his role in ending slavery earn him a place on Mount Rushmore..
44) Rage
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Pub. Date
2020.
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Rage is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest.
Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers...
Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers...
45) Horns and Halos
Pub. Date
2002.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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With Donald Trump's White House battling journalists and biographers, HORNS AND HALOS is a timely film that follows an author and small publisher as they fight a legal battle to publish "Fortunate Son," a damning biography of George W. Bush.. In 1999, under pressure from Bush attorneys, St. Martin's Press destroyed all copies of James H. Hatfield's unauthorized biography of "The Fortunate Son." But Hatfield found an ally in Sander Hicks, whose underground...
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Continue your study of surveillance and the law with a look at constitutional law. After exploring cases from the 1960s and 1970s about privacy and police informants, you’ll turn to the computer era. Find out what expectations of privacy we have regarding email and phone metadata, airport travel, and our smart phones.
47) Metadata
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Dig deeper into the government’s electronic surveillance programs. Here, you’ll learn about "metadata”—or data about data. After reviewing what metadata is and how it works, you’ll examine the thorny legal issues surrounding metadata gathering in the years after 9/11, and whether collecting it violates the 4th Amendment protection against search and seizure.
Pub. Date
2010.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Dr. Rutledge and his team take an in depth look into a disease that has killed more people than any disease ever known -- Malaria. They interview African, Indian, and US Governments, charitable organizations, scientists, politicians, doctors, clinics, victims, and survivors. They explore and expose the politics of domestic and international policies and find the evidence that the public never truly understood. What they find is astonishing. ..The...
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Survey the U.S. intelligence community as a whole. Find out how it is structured, how it functions, and how it relates to the rest of the government. Review its methods of gathering and analyzing intelligence, including some of the key challenges in the process.
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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The global cyberwar is heating up and the stakes are no longer limited to the virtual world of computers. Now, thanks in part to secret documents released by Edward Snowden, the true scale of the National Security Agency's scope and power is coming to light. Besides spending billions of dollars to ingest and analyze the worlds' electronic communications, the NSA has set out to dominate a new battlefield—cyberspace. NOVA examines the science and...
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (33 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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After 9/11, the CIA and the FBI were faulted for not sharing intelligence in advance of the attacks. But the two agencies faced stringent legal restrictions on sharing information, going back to the 1978 FISA legislation, which erected a "wall"between intelligence gathering and criminal investigations. Review the reasons for and the history of this legislation and the changes that happened after 9/11.
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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What happens when we know we are under observation? Or when we know we are anonymous? The "observer effect"has a significant psychological impact on someone being watched, whether it is a corporation under public scrutiny or someone chastised on social media. Consider the psychological implications of observation—on both the observed and the observer.
53) Anonymity
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
With the pervasiveness of government and corporate surveillance, some people feel the urge to go off the grid. This lecture explores the benefits and challenges of anonymity for individuals and for society, delving into issues such as the freedom of political speech and the privacy of personal searches and communication. Take a look at two tools people use in pursuit of Internet anonymity: TOR networks and Bitcoin currency.
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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See what measures the American government took during the Cold War to prevent our devolution into a Stasi-like state. While the CIA and the FBI had several unauthorized surveillance programs in the 1950s and 1960s, Congress and the Supreme Court stepped in to oversee the intelligence world with several powerful measures in the 1970s.
55) The Green Prince
Pub. Date
2004.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Set against the chaotic backdrop of recent events in the Middle East, Nadav Schirman's THE GREEN PRINCE retraces the details of a highly unprecedented partnership that developed between sworn enemies.. In the style of a tense psychological thriller, this extraordinary documentary recounts the true story of the son of a Hamas leader who emerged as one of Israel's prized informants, and the Shin Bet agent who risked his career to protect him.. "Audience...
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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It has been fifty years since the adventures of Juan Salvo were first published in the science fiction comic El Eternauta. Some time in 1957, Argentine writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld created a highly metaphorical and political graphic novel. El Eternauta introduced a new way of understanding comic strips: it transcended the limits of mere escapism to become an adult and politically committed story. And to this day, the comic book continues to surprise...
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Albert Einstein once wrote, "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." The product of 95 years' worth of additions, subtractions, deductions, and exclusions, it has become such a headache that many are calling for it to be drastically simplified or even removed all together. With a looming fiscal crisis on the horizon, April 15th seems more like a scene from a B-Horror movie than a day to contribute to the common good of the...
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In the wake of the attacks in France, citizens wondered whether their state was taking enough security measures to protect them or doing too much of the wrong thing. In considering this question, review three types of surveillance—physical, electronic and data—and see how each type works. Case studies of the Osama Bin Laden raid and U.S. airport screening show the tension between security and transparency.
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (735 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A man shoots down a drone that is flying over his private property. A retail store uses predictive data analytics to send pregnancy-related advertising to a teenager who has not told her parents about her condition. A police officer places a GPS device on a suspected criminal's car to follow him and build a case against him..The news is full of such stories, in which new technologies lead to dilemmas that could not have been imagined just a few decades...
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that.Bonsai People celebrates Yunus’ extraordinary humanitarian work, which started by lending [dollar sign]27 to 42 people out of his own pocket and has now grown to helping 1 out of every 1,000 people on earth. But he didn’t stop there - whenever...
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