Great courses (Compact disc)

Compact discs

v. 1, lectures 1-12. Living bravely -- Spain, France and the Netherlands -- Gentlemen in the wilderness -- Radicals in the wilderness -- Traders in the wilderness -- An economy of slaves -- 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

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

Unabridged

v. 2, lectures 13-24. The American Revolution, Washington's war -- Creating the Constitution -- Hamilton's Republic -- Republicans and Federalists -- Adams and liberty -- The Jeffersonian reaction -- Territory and treason -- The agrarian republic -- The disastrous War of 1812 -- The "American system" -- A nation announcing itself -- National Republican follies

v. 3, lectures 25-36. The Second Great Awakening -- Dark Satanic mills -- The military chieftain -- The politics of distrust -- The monster bank -- Whigs and Democrats -- American romanticism -- The age of reform -- Southern society and the defense of slavery -- Whose Manifest Destiny? -- The Mexican War -- The Great Compromise

v. 4, lectures 37-48. Sectional tensions escalate -- Drifting toward disaster -- The coming of war -- The first year of fighting -- Shifting tides of battle -- Diplomatic clashes and sustaining the war -- Behind the lines, politics and economies -- African Americans in wartime -- The Union drive to victory -- Presidential Reconstruction -- Congress takes command -- Reconstruction ends

v. 5, lectures 49-60. Industrialization -- Transcontinental railroads -- The last Indian wars -- Farming the Great Plains -- African Americans after Reconstruction -- Men and women -- Religion in Victorian America -- The Populists -- The new immigration -- City life -- Labor and capital -- Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism

v. Part 6, lectures 61-72. 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 -- World War II, the road to Pearl Harbor -- World War II, the European Theater -- World War II, the Pacific Theater -- The Cold War -- The Korean War and McCarthyism -- The affluent society

v. 7, lectures 73-84. 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 -- Environmentalism -- Religion in twentieth-century America -- Carter and the Reagan revolution -- The new world order -- Clinton's America and the Millennium -- Reflections