All Seasons

Season 1

• S01E01 New World Encounters

  • December 31, 2000
  • PBS

  American history moves from west to east, beginning with Ice Age migrations, through the corn civilisations of Middle America, to the explorations of Columbus, de Soto and other Spaniards.

• S01E02 English Settlement

  • March 24, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E03 Growth and Empire

  • March 31, 2001
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• S01E04 The Coming of Independence

  • April 7, 2001
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• S01E05 A New System of Government

  • April 14, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E06 Westward Expansion

  • April 21, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E07 The Rise of Capitalism

  • April 28, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E08 The Reform Impulse

  • May 5, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E09 Slavery

  • May 12, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E10 The Coming of the Civil War

  • May 19, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E11 The Civil War

  • May 26, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E12 Reconstruction

  • June 2, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E13 America at its Centennial

  • June 9, 2001
  • PBS

  As America celebrates its centennial, 5 million people descend on Philadelphia to celebrate America's technological achievements, but some of the early principles of the Republic remain unrealized. Professor Miller and his team of historians examine where America is in 1876 and discuss the question of race.

• S01E14 Industrial Supremacy

  • June 16, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E15 The New City

  • June 23, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E16 The West

  • June 30, 2001
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• S01E17 Capital and Labor

  • July 7, 2001
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• S01E18 TR and Wilson

  • July 14, 2001
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• S01E19 A Vital Progressivism

  • July 21, 2001
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• S01E20 The Twenties

  • July 28, 2001
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• S01E21 FDR and the Depression

  • August 4, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E22 World War II

  • August 11, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E23 The Fifties

  • August 18, 2001
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• S01E24 The Sixties

  • August 25, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E25 Contemporary History

  • September 1, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E26 The Redemptive Imagination

  • September 8, 2001
  • PBS