Chronicles the history of the United States from its colonial origins to the beginning of the 21st century.

Title from container. The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 84 lectures. In container (17 cm.).

Pt. I. lecture 1. Living bravely -- lecture 2. Spain, France, and the Netherlands -- lecture 3. Gentlemen in the wilderness -- lecture 4. Radicals in the wilderness -- lecture 5. Traders in the wilderness -- lecture 6. An economy of slaves -- lecture 7. Printers, painters, and preachers -- lecture 8. The great awakening -- lecture 9. The great war for empire -- lecture 10. The rejection of empire -- lecture 11. The American Revolution, politics and people -- lecture 12. The American Revolution, Howe's war. Pt. II. lectures 13. The American Revolution, Washington's war -- lecture 14. Creating the Constitution -- lecture 15. Hamilton's Republic -- lecture 16. Republicans and Federalists -- lecture 17. Adams and liberty -- lecture 18. The Jeffersonian reaction -- lecture 19. Territory and treason -- lecture 20. The agrarian republic -- lecture 21. The disastrous War of 1812 -- lecture 22. The "American system" -- lecture 23. A nation announcing itself -- lecture 24. National Republican follies. Pt. III. lecture 25. The second great awakening -- lecture 26. Dark Satanic mills -- lecture 27. The military chieftain -- lecture 28. The politics of distrust -- lecture 29. The monster bank -- lecture 30. Whigs and Democrats -- lecture 31. American romanticism -- lecture 32. The age of reform -- Southern society and the defense of slavery -- lecture 33. Whose Manifest Destiny? -- lecture 34. The Mexican War -- lecture 36. The Great Compromise. Pt. IV. lecture 37. Sectional tensions escalate -- lecture 38. Drifting toward disaster -- lecture 39. The coming of war -- lecture 40. The first year of fighting -- lecture 41. Shifting tides of battle -- lecture 42. Diplomatic clashes and sustaining the war -- lecture 43. Behind the lines, politics and economies -- lecture 44. African Americans in wartime -- lecture 45. The Union drive to victory -- lecture 46. Presidential Reconstruction -- lecture 47. Congress takes command -- lecture 48. Reconstruction ends. Pt. V. lectures 49. Industrialization -- lecture 50. Transcontinental railroads -- lecture 51. The last Indian wars -- lecture 52. Farming the Great Plains -- lecture 53. African Americans after Reconstruction -- lecture 54. Men and women -- lecture 55. Religion in Victorian America -- lecture 56. The Populists -- lecture 57. The new immigration -- lecture 58. City life -- lecture 59. Labor and capital -- lecture 60. Theodore Roosevelt and progressivism. Lecture 61. Mass production -- Lecture 62. World War I, the road to intervention -- Lecture 63. World War I, Versailles and Wilson's gambit -- Lecture 64. The 1920's -- Lecture 65. The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression -- Lecture 66. The New Deal -- Lecture 67. World War II, the road to Pearl Harbor -- Lecture 68. World War II, the Euorpean Theater -- Lecture 69. World War II, the Pacific Theater -- Lecture 70. The Cold War -- Lecture 71. The Korean War and McCarthyism -- Lecture 72. The affluent society. Lecture 73. The Civil Rights movement -- Lecture 74. New Frontier and the Great Society -- Lecture 75. Rise of mass media -- Lecture 76. The Vietnam War -- Lecture 77. The women's movement -- Lecture 78. Nixon and Watergate -- Lecture 79. Environmentalism -- Lecture 80. Religion in twentieth-century America -- Lecture 81. Carter and the Reagan revolution -- Lecture 82. New world order -- Lecture 83. Clinton's America and the Millennium -- Lecture 84. Reflections.