American Beginnings to 1877
- Exploration and the Colonial Era
- Revolution and the Early Republic
- The Living Constitution
- The Growth of a Young Nation
- The Union in Peril
Bridge to the 20th Century (1877-1917)
- Changes on the Western Frontier
- A New Industrial Age
- Immigrants and Urbanization
- Life at the Turn of the 20th Century
Modern America Emerges (1890-1920)
- The Progressive Era
- America Claims an Empire
- The First World War
The 1920s and the Great Depression
- Politics of the Roaring Twenties
- The Roaring Life of the 1920s
- The Great Depression Begins
- The New Deal
World War II and Its Aftermath (1931-1960)
- World War Looms
- The United States in World War II
- Cold War Conflicts
- The Postwar Boom
Living With Great Turmoil (1954-1975)
- The New Frontier and the Great Society
- Civil Rights
- The Vietnam War Years
- An Era of Social Change
Passage to a New Century (1968-2001)
- An Age of Limits
- The Conservative Tide
- The United States in Today's World
