disc 1. Living bravely -- Spain, France, and the Netherlands -- Gentlemen in the wilderness -- Radicals in the wilderness -- Traders in the wilderness -- An economy of slaves -- disc. 2 Printers, painters, and preachers -- The Great Awakening -- The great war for empire -- The rejection of empire -- The American Revolution : politics and people -- The American Revolution : Howe's war -- disc 3. The American Revolution : Washington's war -- Creating the Constitution -- Hamilton's republic -- Republicans and federalism -- Adams and liberty -- The Jeffersonian reaction -- disc 4. Territory and treason -- The agrarian republic -- The disastrous War of 1812 -- The "American System" -- A nation announcing itself -- National republican follies -- disc 5. The second great awakening -- Dark satanic mills -- The military chieftain -- The politics of distrust -- The monster bank -- Whigs and Democrats -- disc 6. American romanticisim -- The age of reform -- Southern society and the defense of slavery -- Whose Manifest Destiny? -- The Mexican War -- The Great Compromise -- disc 7. Sectional tensions escalate -- Drifting toward disaster -- The coming war -- The first year of fighting -- Shifting tides of battle -- Diplomatic clashes and sustaining the war -- disc 8. Behind the lines : politics and economics -- African Americans in wartime -- The Union drive to victory -- Presidential reconstruction -- Congress takes command -- Reconstruction ends.

disc 9. Industralization -- Transcontinental railroads -- The last Indian wars -- Farming the Great Plains -- African Americans after Reconstruction -- Men and women -- disc 10. Religion in Victorian America -- The Populists -- The new immigration -- City life -- Labor and capital -- Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism -- disc 11. Mass production -- World War I : the road to intervention -- World War I : Versailles and Wilson's gambit -- The 1920's -- The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression -- The New Deal -- disc 12. World War II : the road to Pearl Harbor -- World War II : the European theater -- World War I I: the Pacific theater -- The Cold War -- The Korean War and the McCarthyism -- The affluent society -- disc 13. The Civil Rights Movement -- The New Frontier and the Great Society -- The rise of mass media -- The Vietnam War -- The Women's Movement -- Nixon and Watergate -- disc 14. Environmentalism -- Religion in twentieth century America -- Carter and the Reagan Revolution -- The new world order -- Clinton's America and the millennium -- Reflections.