The history of the United States

pt. 1, lectures 1-12. Living bravely

Spain, France and the Netherlands

Gentlemen in the wilderness

Radicals in the wilderness

Traders in the wilderness

An economy of slaves

Printers, painters, and preachers

The Great Awakening

The great war for empire

The rejection of empire

The American Revolution, politics and people

The American Revolution, Howe's war.

pt. 2, lectures 13-24. The American Revolution, Washington's war

Creating the Constitution

Hamilton's Republic

Republicans and Federalists

Adams and liberty

The Jeffersonian reaction

Territory and treason

The agrarian republic

The disastrous War of 1812

The "American system"

A nation announcing itself

National Republican follies.

pt. 3, lectures 25-36. The Second Great Awakening

Dark Satanic mills

The military chieftain

The politics of distrust

The monster bank

Whigs and Democrats

American romanticism

The age of reform

Southern society and the defense of slavery

Whose Manifest Destiny?

The Mexican War

The Great Compromise.

Part 4, lectures 37-48. Sectional tensions escalate

Drifting toward disaster

The coming of war

The first year of fighting

Shifting tides of battle

Diplomatic clashes and sustaining the war

Behind the lines, politics and economies

African Americans in wartime

The Union drive to victory

Presidential Reconstruction

Congress takes command

Reconstruction ends.

Part 5, lectures 49-60. Industrialization

Transcontinental railroads

The last Indian wars

Farming the Great Plains

African Americans after Reconstruction

Men and women

Religion in Victorian America

The Populists

The new immigration

City life

Labor and capital

Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism.

Part 6, lectures 61-72. Mass production

World War I, the road to intervention

World War I, Versailles and Wilson's gambit

The 1920's

The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression

The New Deal

World War II, the road to Pearl Harbor

World War II, the European Theater

World War II, the Pacific Theater

The Cold War

The Korean War and McCarthyism

The affluent society.

Part 7, lectures 73-84. The Civil Rights movement

The New Frontier and the Great Society

The rise of mass media

The Vietnam War

The women's movement

Nixon and Watergate

Environmentalism

Religion in twentieth-century America

Carter and the Reagan revolution

The new world order

Clinton's America and the Millennium

Reflections.