v. 1. From the age of discovery to a world at war, 1492-1914. Westward the course (1492-1607): Columbus -- The scramble for empire -- The rise of England -- A city upon a hill (1607-1765): Coming to America -- The great migration -- Expanding British rule -- Britain and France: conflict for a continent -- Religious and intellectual awakenings -- Britain and France: the final conflict -- The greatest revolution ( 1765-1783): Stamping out unfair taxes -- A total separation -- The shot heard 'round the world -- A continental war -- The French alliance -- The world turned upside down -- A dangerous place -- Reflection and choice: framing the Constitution (1783-1789): A critical period -- Madison -- Ratification -- The new republic (1789-1801): "The sacred fire of liberty" -- Madison's Bill of Rights -- Hamilton's new system -- Hurricane Genet -- John Adams -- The Revolution of 1800 -- The Jeffersonians (1801-1829): An empire for liberty -- Lewis & Clark -- Plots, trials, treason -- Jefferson's last years -- Mr. Madison's war -- The Battle of New Orleans -- An era of good feeling -- The Missouri Compromise -- The Monroe Doctrine -- The election of 1824 -- Adams and Jefferson die -- Jackson and democracy (1828-1849): From caucus to raucous: the election of 1828 -- The Peggy Eaton affair -- John C. Calhoun -- Our federal union must be preserved -- The tragedy of Indian removal -- Jackson's war on the bank -- "Old man eloquent" -- Tippecanoe and Tyler, too! -- Great Harry of the West -- Reannexing Texas and reoccupying Oregon -- The halls of Montezuma --
The rising storm (1849-1861): California and the compromise of 1850
John Brown and Harpers Ferry
Freedom's fiery trial (1860-1863): Secession winter (1860-61)
A new birth of freedom (1863-1865): Gettysburg: The Confederacy's high-water mark
The agony of Abraham Lincoln
"Long Abraham a little longer"
To bind up the nation's wounds (1865-1877): Pass in review
Thunder on the borders: South and North
Reconstruction and renewal
A tragic divorce in freedom's ranks
An age more golden than gilded? (1877-1897): Reform, Roosevelts and reaction
Grover Cleveland: "Tell the truth!"
The American dynamo: shadowed by war (1897-1914): "A splendid little war"
Teddy Roosevelt in the White House, and the Square Deal
The William Howard Taft interlude
Woodrow Wilson and the new freedom
"The lights are going out..."
v. 2. From a world at war to the triumph of freedom, 1914-1989.
