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• Native Americans in North America: Similar and differing characteristics
• Spanish, French and English interaction with the Native Americans
• The objectives and accomplishments associated with Spanish, French and English colonization.

Episode 2: Materialization of the English Colonies (1607-1690)

• Factors that led to indentured servitude and the move to slavery in the Chesapeake Bay region
• The variety of religious denominations and the impact they had on colonial development
• Challenges to colonial authority: Bacon's Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, and the Pueblo Revolt

Episode 3: Colonial Developments, (1690-1754)

• The impact of Enlightenment and the Great Awakening on the colonies
• Transatlantic trade and the impact it had on commerce in the North, slavery in the South and the growth of seaports
• Population growth, immigration, and the settlement of the backcountry
• The role that salutary neglect had on the development of colonial governments and the people

Episode 4: Causes and Effects of the American Revolution (1754-1789)

• Crucial developments during and at the end of the French and Indian War
• The end of salutary neglect and the colonial response
• The role that state constitutions and the Articles of Confederation had on the development of the US Constitution

Episode 5: The New Nation is Launched (1789-1815)

• Washington and Hamilton usher in a stronger central government
• The response by Jefferson and the emergence of political parties: Federalists and Republicans
• An assessment of the Founding Fathers
• Impact of the Second Great Awakening
• The Jefferson and Madison presidencies
• The War of 1812 and its consequences
• Expansion into the trans-Appalachian West

Episode 6: Economic and Societal Developments in Antebellum America

• The American System: The transportation revolution and creation of a national market economy
• Beginnings of industrialization and its impact on social and class structures
• Nativist reaction to immigration
• Stratification of a society: Planters, yeoman farmers, and slaves in the cotton South

Episode 7: The Transformation of Politics in Antebellum America 

• Development of the second party system
• The debates over federal authority: judicial federalism, the Bank War, tariff controversy, and states' rights issues
• An evaluation of Andrew Jackson and Jacksonian democracy

Episode 8: Religion and Reform in Antebellum America

• The Second Great Awakening
• Social reforms
• The women’s sphere and its challengers
• Transcendentalism and Utopian communities

Episode 9: Manifest Destiny

• Forced removal of American Indians from the East
• Migration to the West and the resulting cultural interactions
• Territorial acquisitions by the US Government, and unlawful filibusters
• The Mexican War

Episode 10: Causes of the Civil War

• Slavery-related arguments and conflicts
• Compromise of 1850 and its effects
• Ramifications of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Transformation of the political parties
• Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 election, and southern secession

Episode 11: The Civil War

• Mobilization and use of resources
• Addressing internal dissent
• An evaluation of military strategies and objectives
• The impact of Emancipation at home and abroad
• Various contributions by African Americans
• Social, political, and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West

Episode 12: The Challenges of Reconstruction

• Reconstruction Plans (Lincoln, Johnson, Radical Republicans)
• An evaluation of southern state governments
• Role of African Americans in politics, education, and the economy
• Reasons for and results of the Compromise of 1877
• An evaluation of Reconstruction

Episode 13: The New South

• Sharecropping and the crop lien system
• Expansion of manufacturing and industrialization
• Segregation: Jim Crow and disfranchisement

Episode 14: The West in the Late Nineteenth Century

• Expansion of western railroads
• Miners, ranchers, homesteaders, and American Indians compete for the West:
• Government policy and its impact on American Indians
• Gender, race, and ethnicity in the far West
• Environmental impact on the west

Episode 15: The Development and Impact of Industrial America during the Gilded Age

• Consolidation of industry and the influence of corporate power on national politics
• Impact of technological development on workers and workplace
• Labor and unions
• Immigration and population shifts within the country
• Viewpoints on industrial America: Social Darwinism and Social Gospel

Episode 16: Life in the Cities in the Late Nineteenth Century

• Urbanization
• Machine politics and problems associated with city life
• Cultural and intellectual movements and the evolution of popular entertainment

Episode 17: Calls for Change: Populism and Progressivism

• Farmers’ discontent and political issues of the late nineteenth century
• Beginnings of Progressive reform: municipal, state, and national
• Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson as Progressive presidents
• Women's roles: family, workplace, education, politics, and reform
• African-Americans: urban migration and civil rights initiatives

Episode 18: A New World Power: America Ascends

• American imperialism: reasons for expansion
• WWI: America’s attempt at neutrality; the war at home and abroad
• Treaty of Versailles
• Society and economy in the postwar years

Episode 19: The 1920's

• America’s consumer economy
• Republican politics: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
• Modernism: science, the arts, and entertainment
• Responses to Modernism: religious fundamentalism, nativism, and Prohibition
• African Americans and women: struggles for equality

Episode 20: The Great Depression and FDR's New Deal

• Causes of the Great Depression
• The Hoover administration's response
• FDR’s New Deal
• Advances for labor and unions
• The New Deal coalition and its critics from the Right and the Left
• American society during the Great Depression

Episode 21: World War II

• Fascism and militarism in Japan, Italy, and Germany
• Prelude to war: America’s policy of neutrality
• Pearl Harbor and United States declaration of war
• The challenges of fighting a multi-front war
• Diplomacy, war aims, and wartime conferences
• The United States emergence as a global power in the Atomic Age

Episode 22: Contributions and Changes on the Home Front During World War II

• Mobilization of the economy
• Migration and demographic changes
• Women, work, and family during the war
• Civil liberties and civil rights during wartime
• Regional development
• Expansion of government power

Episode 23: Early Stages of the Cold War

• Origins of the Cold War
• Truman and the containment doctrine
• The Cold War in Asia: China, Korea, Vietnam (briefly), Japan
• The Eisenhower administration
• The Red Scare and McCarthyism
• Impact of the Cold War on American society

Episode 24: The Domestic Side of the 1950s

• The modern civil rights movement
• The affluent society and "the other America"
• Consensus and conformity: middle-class America
• Social critics, nonconformists, and cultural rebels
• Changes in science, technology, and medicine

Episode 25: New Strides and Challenges in the 1960s

• The New Frontier and the Great Society
• Expansion of civil rights
• Cold War in Asia, Latin America, and Europe
• Détente begins
• The antiwar movement and the counterculture

Episode 26: Political and Economic Developments of the Late 20th Century

• The election of 1968 and the "Silent Majority"
• Nixon's challenges: Vietnam, China, Watergate
• Changes in the American economy: the energy crisis, deindustrialization, and the service economy
• Development of the New Right and the establishment of the Reagan Revolution

Episode 27: Societal and Cultural Developments at the End of the Twentieth Century*

Episode 28: America' challenges in the Post-Cold War Era*

* Episodes 27 & 28 are abbreviated and will only include essay and multiple-choice question discussions.