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A Look at the Founders – Franklin and Jefferson

A Look at the Founders – Washington and Hamilton

The Road to Revolution

The American Revolution

Establishing a Government

The First President

America’s First Two-Party System

Foreign Affairs (1800-1820)

The Missouri Compromise and the Monroe Doctrine

Economic Changes in Pre-Civil War America

The Age of Jackson, Part 1

The Age of Jackson, Part 2

Irish and German Immigration

Reform Movements

Westward Expansion

Slavery in America

The Road to the Civil War, Part 1

The Road to the Civil War, Part 2

The Civil War, Part 1

The Civil War, Part 2

Reconstruction

The Great Fortunes of the Gilded Age

Checking the Power of the New Corporations

Immigration in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era

Life on the Plains and in the American West

An American Empire? (Foreign Affairs, 1898-1912)

Race Relations in America (1877-1912)

Political Corruption and Attempts at Reform

Domestic Politics and Policy (1912-1916)

America Enters World War One

Wilsonian Diplomacy After World War One

Postwar Anxieties and the Election of 1920

The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression

America in the 1920s, Part 1

America in the 1920s, Part 2

The Election of 1932, Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal

Critics of the New Deal

Rising Danger Overseas

The Second World War, Part 1

The Second World War, Part 2

The Second World War, Part 3

Transition to a Postwar World

The Beginning of the Cold War

Harry Truman and Containment

The Korean War

The Second Red Scare

Dwight Eisenhower and the 1950s

Civil Rights in the 1950s

John F. Kennedy and the Cold War

Domestic Policy in the Kennedy Years

Lyndon Johnson and Domestic Policy

Escalation in Vietnam

The Presidency of Richard Nixon

Watergate, The Self-Destruction of the Nixon Presidency

The End of the Vietnam War and the Brief Presidency of Gerald Ford

“Crisis of Confidence”, The Carter Years

Reagan, The 1980s and the End of the Cold War, Part 1

Reagan, The 1980s and the End of the Cold War, Part 2

1989-2000, An Overview