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
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• 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
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• S01E06 Westward Expansion

  • April 21, 2001
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• S01E07 The Rise of Capitalism

  • April 28, 2001
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• S01E08 The Reform Impulse

  • May 5, 2001
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• S01E09 Slavery

  • May 12, 2001
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• S01E10 The Coming of the Civil War

  • May 19, 2001
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• S01E11 The Civil War

  • May 26, 2001
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• S01E12 Reconstruction

  • June 2, 2001
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• S01E13 America at the Centennial

  • June 9, 2001
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• S01E14 Industrial Supremacy

  • June 16, 2001
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• S01E15 The New City

  • June 23, 2001
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• 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
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• S01E22 World War II

  • August 11, 2001
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• S01E23 The Fifties

  • August 18, 2001
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• S01E24 The Sixties

  • August 25, 2001
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• S01E25 Contemporary History

  • September 1, 2001
  • PBS

• S01E26 The Redemptive Imagination

  • September 8, 2001
  • PBS