This is a reference page that has streaming video lectures for EACH of the SOLs. They are referenced by topic and number - and are based on the 2008 standards. These are meant to be very basic - and they do run a little dry. Use the "download" link to acquire the video in QuickTime format (.mov). I hope they will be of some use to you!

VUS.2 - Exploration and Colonization

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VUS.3 - Three Colonial Regions Develop

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VUS.4a - The Ideology of the American Revolution

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VUS.4b - The Declaration of Independence

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VUS.4c - Events Leading to the American Revolution

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VUS.4d - Winning Independence

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VUS.5a - Articles of Confederation; the First Attempt at Democracy

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VUS.5b - Government Through Compromise; The US Constitution

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VUS.5c - Adding a Bill of Rights

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VUS.5d - Struggle for Ratification; Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists

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VUS.5e - John Marshall helps Shape the Government

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VUS.6a - Washington, Adams, and the Birth of Political Parties

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VUS.6b,c - Expansion, War, and Manifest Destiny

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VUS.6d - Rise of the Common Man and Jacksonian Democracy

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VUS.6e - Conflict, Compromise and Crisis; Events leading to the Civil War

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VUS.7a - Causes of the Civil War

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VUS.7b - The Civil War; Key Battles and Leaders

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VUS.7c - Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address

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VUS.7d - Reconstruction

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VUS.7e - Impact of the Civil War on the Homefront

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VUS.7f - Postwar Contributions of Grant, Lee and Douglass

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VUS.8a - Emergence of Modern America; Cowboys and Immigrants

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VUS.8b - Emergence of Modern America; Industrialization
(There is an error on this video - the date of the Wright Brothers' first flight should be December of 1903)

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VUS.8c - Jim Crow South

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VUS.8d - Progressives Respond to Excesses of the Gilded Age

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VUS.9a - Imperialism; America Seeks an Empire

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VUS.9b - World War 1

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VUS.10a - Popular Culture Challenges Traditional Society

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VUS.10b - Stock Market Crash

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VUS.10c - Causes and Effects of the Great Depression

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VUS.10d - FDR and the New Deal

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VUS.11a - World War 2 Erupts

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VUS.11b - Strategies and Battles of World War 2

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VUS.11c - Minority Contributions to World War 2

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VUS.11d - POW's in World War 2

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VUS.11e - The Holocaust

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VUS.12a,b - America Mobilizes for War

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VUS.12c - Internment of the Japanese

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VUS.12d - Role of the Media in World War 2

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VUS.13a - Postwar Challenges and the Origins of the Cold War

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VUS.13b - Containment; Truman's Doctrine, China, Korea and Cuba

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VUS.13b - The Vietnam War

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VUS.13b - The Cold War at Home

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VUS.13c - Military Sacrifice and the JFK Assassination

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VUS.13d - Collapse of Communism and an End to the Cold War

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VUS.13e - Foreign Policy Since the Cold War

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VUS.14a - Brown v. Board of Education and its Impact

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VUS.14b - Civil Rights in the 1960's

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VUS.15a - Contemporary America; The Supreme Court and Society

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VUS.15b - Contemporary America; Modern Immigrants

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VUS.15c - Contemporary America; Science and Technology

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VUS.15d - Contemporary America; The Reagan Revolution

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VUS.15e - Contemporary America; The Government and the Economy

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VUS.15f - Contemporary America; Facing the Challenge of Global Terrorism

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