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Ultimate History Lesson Hour 1, minutes 1 -15 (approx.):

Shield of the Trinity (on Wikipedia)
Classical Trivium + 7 Liberal Arts (on Wikipedia)
George Orwell (on Wikipedia)
(Book) “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell (1984) (on Wikipedia)
Newspeak (on Wikipedia)
Walter Lippmann (on Wikipedia)
(Book) “Public Opinion” by Walter Lippmann (1922)
Aristotle’s Logic (on Wikipedia)
Aristotle (on Wikipedia)
Dialectic (on Wikipedia)
Five W’s (+ How) (on Wikipedia)
(Document) Abraham Lincoln’s Speech Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859
Mudsill Theory (on Wikipedia)
British Class Structure / Social Structure of the United Kingdom (on Wikipedia)
Vernon Louis Parrington (on Wikipedia)
(Book) “Main Currents in American Thought” (Vol. I-III) by Vernon Louis Parrington (1927)
Emancipation Reform in Russia (1861) (on Wikipedia)
British Empire Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (on Wikipedia)

Roundtable Discussion of minutes 1-15:

(Book) “Social Science for Teachers” (Riverside textbooks in education, edited by E. P. Cubberley ... Division on secondary education under the editorial direction of A. Inglis); "Education a process of adjustment."
Definition of Psittacism
Definition of Mettle

Hour 1, minutes 15 -30 (approx.)

Wage Slave (on Wikipedia)
(Video) Noam Chomsky on Wage Slavery (on YouTube)
Welfare (on Wikipedia)
Definition of Deadwood
Simon Legree (character in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe in1852) (on Wikipedia)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (on Wikipedia)
Count Leo Tolstoy (on Wikipedia)
Chautauqua Movement (on Wikipedia)
William Rainey Harper & Chautauqua Movement (on Wikipedia)
Lewis Lapham & Harper Magazine (on Wikipedia)
(Film) “The American Ruling Class” (2005)
(Video) “The American Ruling Class” trailer (onYouTube)
Carnegie + Homestead Strike (1892) (on Wikipedia)
PBS special Homestead Strike
John D. Rockefeller (on Wikipedia)
Rockefeller  + Ludlow Massacre (1914) (on Wikipedia)
Horatio Alger (on Wikipedia)  
Charles Loring Brace (on Wikipedia)
(Book) “The Dangerous Classes of New York: And Twenty Years’ Work Among Them” by Charles Loring Brace (1872):
Orphan Train (on Wikipedia)
Adoption (on Wikipedia)
Indentured Servant (on Wikipedia)
The Adoption History Project (University of Oregon Archive)
(Document) “Orphan Train Myths and Legal Reality” by Rebecca Trammell (pdf)

Minutes 15 -30 / roundtable discussion references:

Definition of Rhetoric (on Wikipedia)
Definition of Leverage
(Book) “The Huma