January 1, 2000 • 26m
American history moves from west to east, beginning with Ice Age migrations, through the corn civilizations of Middle America, to ...Read more
January 8, 2000 • 27m
As the American character begins to take shape in the early seventeenth century, English settlements develop in New England and Vi...Read more
January 15, 2000 • 26m
Benjamin Franklin and Franklin's Philadelphia take center stage in this program. As the merchant class grows in the North, the eco...Read more
January 22, 2000 • 26m
Professor Maier tells the story of how the English-loving colonist transforms into the freedom-loving American rebel. The luminari...Read more
January 29, 2000 • 26m
After the War for Independence, the struggle for a new system of government begins. Maier looks at the creation of the Constitutio...Read more
February 5, 2000 • 26m
At the dawn of the 19th century, the size of the United States doubles with the Louisiana Purchase. The Appalachians are no longer...Read more
February 12, 2000 • 26m
Individual enterprise merges with technological innovation to launch the Commercial Revolution – the seedbed of American industry....Read more
February 19, 2000 • 26m
The Industrial Revolution has its dark side, and the tumultuous events of the period touch off intense and often thrilling reform ...Read more
February 26, 2000 • 26m
While the North develops an industrial economy and culture, the South develops a slave culture and economy, and the great rift bet...Read more
March 4, 2000 • 26m
Simmering regional differences ignite an all-out crisis in the 1850s. Professor Martin teams with Professor Miller and historian S...Read more
March 11, 2000 • 26m
As the Civil War rages, all eyes turn to Vicksburg, where limited war becomes total war. Professor Miller looks at the ferocity of...Read more
March 18, 2000 • 26m
Professor Miller begins the program by evoking in word and picture the battlefield after the battle of Gettysburg. With the assass...Read more
March 25, 2000 • 26m
As America celebrates its centennial, five million citizens descend on Philadelphia to celebrate America's technological achieveme...Read more
April 1, 2000 • 26m
Steel and stockyards are the mighty engine of industrialism thunders forward at the end of the 19th century. Miller continues the ...Read more
April 8, 2000 • 26m
Miller explores the tension between the messy vitality of cities that grow on their own and those where orderly growth is planned....Read more
April 15, 2000 • 26m
Professor Scharff continues the story of Jefferson's Empire of Liberty. Railroads and ranchers, rabble-rousers and racists populat...Read more
April 22, 2000 • 26m
The making of money pits laborers against the forces of capital as the twentieth century opens. Miller introduces the miner as the...Read more
April 29, 2000 • 26m
Professor Brinkley compares the presidencies of Roosevelt and Wilson – the Warrior and the Minister – in the first decades of the ...Read more
May 6, 2000 • 26m
Professor Martin offers a fresh perspective on Progressivism, arguing that its spirit can be best seen in the daily struggles of o...Read more
May 13, 2000 • 26m
The Roaring Twenties take to the road in Henry Ford's landscape-altering invention -- the Model T. Ford's moving assembly line, th...Read more
May 20, 2000 • 26m
Brinkley continues his story of 20th century presidents with a profile of Roosevelt. Brinkley paints a picture of America during t...Read more
May 27, 2000 • 26m
America is enveloped in total war, from mobilization on the home front to a scorching air war in Europe. Miller's view of WWII is ...Read more
June 3, 2000 • 26m
World War II is fought to its bitter end in the Pacific and the world lives with the legacy of its final moment: the atomic bomb. ...Read more
June 10, 2000 • 26m
Scharff weaves the story of the Civil Rights movement with stories of the Vietnam War and Watergate to create a portrait of a deca...Read more
June 17, 2000 • 26m
The entire team of historians joins Miller in examining the last quarter of the 20th century. A montage opens the program and sets...Read more
June 24, 2000 • 26m
Storytelling is a relentless human urge and its power forges with memory to become the foundation of history. Novelists Charles Jo...Read more