v. 1. From the age of discovery to a world at war, 1492-1914. Westward the course (1492-1607): Columbus
A city upon a hill (1607-1765): Coming to America
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
The shot heard 'round the world
The world turned upside down
Reflection and choice: framing the Constitution (1783-1789): A critical period
The new republic (1789-1801): "The sacred fire of liberty"
The Jeffersonians (1801-1829): An empire for liberty
The Battle of New Orleans
Jackson and democracy (1828-1849): From caucus to raucous: the election of 1828
Our federal union must be preserved
The tragedy of Indian removal
Jackson's war on the bank
Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!
Reannexing Texas and reoccupying Oregon
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.
