American history moves from west to east, beginning with Ice Age migrations, through the corn civilizations of Middle...

As the American character begins to take shape in the early seventeenth century, English settlements develop in New E...

Benjamin Franklin and Franklin's Philadelphia take center stage in this program. As the merchant class grows in the N...

Professor Maier tells the story of how the English-loving colonist transforms into the freedom-loving American rebel....

After the War for Independence, the struggle for a new system of government begins. Maier looks at the creation of th...

At the dawn of the 19th century, the size of the United States doubles with the Louisiana Purchase. The Appalachians ...

Individual enterprise merges with technological innovation to launch the Commercial Revolution – the seedbed of Ameri...

The Industrial Revolution has its dark side, and the tumultuous events of the period touch off intense and often thri...

While the North develops an industrial economy and culture, the South develops a slave culture and economy, and the g...

Simmering regional differences ignite an all-out crisis in the 1850s. Professor Martin teams with Professor Miller an...

As the Civil War rages, all eyes turn to Vicksburg, where limited war becomes total war. Professor Miller looks at th...

Professor Miller begins the program by evoking in word and picture the battlefield after the battle of Gettysburg. Wi...

As America celebrates its centennial, five million citizens descend on Philadelphia to celebrate America's technologi...

Steel and stockyards are the mighty engine of industrialism thunders forward at the end of the 19th century. Miller c...

Miller explores the tension between the messy vitality of cities that grow on their own and those where orderly growt...

Professor Scharff continues the story of Jefferson's Empire of Liberty. Railroads and ranchers, rabble-rousers and ra...

The making of money pits laborers against the forces of capital as the twentieth century opens. Miller introduces the...

Professor Brinkley compares the presidencies of Roosevelt and Wilson – the Warrior and the Minister – in the first de...

Professor Martin offers a fresh perspective on Progressivism, arguing that its spirit can be best seen in the daily s...

The Roaring Twenties take to the road in Henry Ford's landscape-altering invention -- the Model T. Ford's moving asse...

Brinkley continues his story of 20th century presidents with a profile of Roosevelt. Brinkley paints a picture of Ame...

America is enveloped in total war, from mobilization on the home front to a scorching air war in Europe. Miller's vie...

World War II is fought to its bitter end in the Pacific and the world lives with the legacy of its final moment: the ...

Scharff weaves the story of the Civil Rights movement with stories of the Vietnam War and Watergate to create a portr...

The entire team of historians joins Miller in examining the last quarter of the 20th century. A montage opens the pro...

Storytelling is a relentless human urge and its power forges with memory to become the foundation of history. Novelis...