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
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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
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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
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Episode 27: Societal and Cultural Developments at the end of the Twentieth Century
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Episode 28: America's Challenges in the Post-Cold War World
Haynes Johnson : The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism
