Dang...I would have liked to have seen that. The evolution of accents and pronunciation and the language in general is fascinating.
I have this, and it's really interesting, though I've not had as much time as I'd like to go through it, and it covers a much broader scope of history. As I said, it's a fascinating subject.
It was part of a series ‘Do You Speak American?’, which is sort of an overall introduction to this subject. It seems to have a drastically PC approach which includes Mexican Spanish as ‘American’.
I’ve seen that course in the Teaching Company catalog. I’ll have to get it from the library. I did my first quarter in college during the summer, immediately after high school graduation. Heck, I didn’t have anything else to do! I’d heard that in the Eng. 101 course given in the Fall you had to write a paper every time, so I figured I’d get that one over with in the summer. Turns out, we had a visiting professor, and we only wrote 3 papers the whole time. We studied the History of the English Language! After seeing that course, I’m wondering if the teacher is the one I had 37 years ago! I have no idea how old he is now, but he wasn’t much older than we were then.