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Note: Scott Mercer, Rich Woolery, and Michael Neill appear in all episodes. Episode 1: Native Americans and the Initial Impact of Europeans Nathaniel Philbrick : Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War Colin G. Calloway : The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America Episode 2: Materialization of the English Colonies (1607-1690) Nathaniel Philbrick : Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War Leo P. Hirrel : Children of Wrath: New School Calvinism and Antebellum Reform Episode 3: Colonial Developments, (1690-1754) Colin G. Calloway : The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America Episode 4: Causes and Effects of the American Revolution (1754-1789) Colin G. Calloway : The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America Richard A. Epstein: How the Progressives Rewrote the Constitution
Episode 5: The New Nation is Launched (1789-1815) Gordon S. Wood: Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different Episode 6: Economic and Societal Developments in Antebellum America None Episode 7: The Transformation of Politics in Antebellum America H.W. Brands : Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times Episode 8: Religion and Reform in Antebellum America Leo P. Hirrel: Children of Wrath: New School Calvinism and Antebellum Reform Episode 9: Manifest Destiny Robert E. May: Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America Episode 10: Causes of the Civil War Robert E. May: Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America Edward L. Ayers: What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History Episode 11: The Civil War Edward L. Ayers: What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History Brooks D. Simpson: The Reconstruction Presidents Episode 12: The Challenges of Reconstruction Brooks D. Simpson: The Reconstruction Presidents Eric Foner : Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction Edward L. Ayers: What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History Episode 13: The New South Eric Foner: Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction Brooks D. Simpson: The Reconstruction Presidents Episode 14: The West in the Late Nineteenth Century Walter LaFeber: The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 Episode 15: The Development and Impact of Industrial America during the Gilded Age Walter LaFeber: The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 Robert E. Weir: Knights Unhorsed: Internal Conflict in a Gilded Age Social Movement Episode 16: Life in the Cities in the Late Nineteenth Century None Episode 17: Calls for Change: Populism and Progressivism Richard A. Epstein: How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution Episode 18: A New World Power: America Ascends Walter LaFeber: The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 David J. Goldberg: Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s Episode 19: The 1920's David J. Goldberg: Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s David E. Kyvig: Daily Life in the United States 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression Episode 20: The Great Depression and FDR's New Deal David E. Kyvig: Daily Life in the United States 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression Episode 21: World War II Tsuyoshi Hasegawa: Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan Episode 22: Contributions and Changes on the Home Front During World War II Emily Yellin: Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II Episode 23: Early Stages of the Cold War Haynes Johnson: The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism Gerald Berkley-Coats: Taking Christianity to China: Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850-1950 Episode 24: The Domestic Side of the 1950s David Nichols : A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution Episode 25: New Strides and Challenges in the 1960s Gerald Berkley-Coats: Taking Christianity to China: Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850-1950 David Nichols : A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution Episode 26: Political and Economic Developments of the Late 20th Century None Episode 27: Societal and Cultural Developments at the end of the Twentieth Century None Episode 28: America's Challenges in the Post-Cold War World Haynes Johnson : The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism
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