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A History of America
Trailer: A History of America
Runtime: 26:14 minutes
Quality: HD
First Air Date: Jan 01, 2000
Last Air date: Jun 24, 2000
Episode: 26 Episode
Season: 1 Season
A History of America Season 1
New World Encounters
American history moves from west to east, beginning with Ice Age migrations, through the corn civilizations of Middle America, to the explorations of...
English Settlement
As the American character begins to take shape in the early seventeenth century, English settlements develop in New England and Virginia. Their...
Growth and Empire
Benjamin Franklin and Franklin's Philadelphia take center stage in this program. As the merchant class grows in the North, the economies of southern...
The Coming of Independence
Professor Maier tells the story of how the English-loving colonist transforms into the freedom-loving American rebel. The luminaries of the early...
A New System of Government
After the War for Independence, the struggle for a new system of government begins. Maier looks at the creation of the Constitution of the United...
Westward Expansion
At the dawn of the 19th century, the size of the United States doubles with the Louisiana Purchase. The Appalachians are no longer the barrier to...
The Rise of Capitalism
Individual enterprise merges with technological innovation to launch the Commercial Revolution – the seedbed of American industry. The program...
The Reform Impulse
The Industrial Revolution has its dark side, and the tumultuous events of the period touch off intense and often thrilling reform movements....
Slavery
While the North develops an industrial economy and culture, the South develops a slave culture and economy, and the great rift between the regions...
The Coming of the Civil War
Simmering regional differences ignite an all-out crisis in the 1850s. Professor Martin teams with Professor Miller and historian Stephen Ambrose to...
The Civil War
As the Civil War rages, all eyes turn to Vicksburg, where limited war becomes total war. Professor Miller looks at the ferocity of the fighting, at...
Reconstruction
Professor Miller begins the program by evoking in word and picture the battlefield after the battle of Gettysburg. With the assassination of...
America at its Centennial
As America celebrates its centennial, five million citizens descend on Philadelphia to celebrate America's technological achievements, but some early...
Industrial Supremacy
Steel and stockyards are the mighty engine of industrialism thunders forward at the end of the 19th century. Miller continues the story of the...
The New City
Miller explores the tension between the messy vitality of cities that grow on their own and those where orderly growth is planned. Chicago –...
The West
Professor Scharff continues the story of Jefferson's Empire of Liberty. Railroads and ranchers, rabble-rousers and racists populate America's distant...
Capital and Labor
The making of money pits laborers against the forces of capital as the twentieth century opens. Miller introduces the miner as the quintessential...
TR and Wilson
Professor Brinkley compares the presidencies of Roosevelt and Wilson – the Warrior and the Minister – in the first decades of the 20th...
A Vital Progressivism
Professor Martin offers a fresh perspective on Progressivism, arguing that its spirit can be best seen in the daily struggles of ordinary people. In...
The Twenties
The Roaring Twenties take to the road in Henry Ford's landscape-altering invention -- the Model T. Ford's moving assembly line, the emergence of a...
FDR and the Depression
Brinkley continues his story of 20th century presidents with a profile of Roosevelt. Brinkley paints a picture of America during the Depression and...
World War II
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 a personal essay on...
The Fifties
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. Miller continues...
The Sixties
Scharff weaves the story of the Civil Rights movement with stories of the Vietnam War and Watergate to create a portrait of a decade. Lyndon B....
Contemporary History
The entire team of historians joins Miller in examining the last quarter of the 20th century. A montage opens the program and sets the stage for a...
The Redemptive Imagination
Storytelling is a relentless human urge and its power forges with memory to become the foundation of history. Novelists Charles Johnson (Middle...
Wagon Train (1957)
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert...
Amigos (1970)
The 30 episode bilingual series for families and children is curated to promote appreciation of Spanish language and Latin culture. The stories...
Sons of Liberty (2015)
A radical group of young men band together in secrecy to change the course of history and make America a nation.
Hell on Wheels (2011)
The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who...
The Titans That Built America (2021)
Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of titan rises…Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J.P. Morgan Jr., Henry Ford, and William...
Boardwalk Empire (2010)
Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the...