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16 Episodes 2003 - 2003
Episode 1
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
The Colonies declare independence from England; Boston Tea Party; Paul Revere's midnight ride; George Washington; Samuel Adams.
Episode 2
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
The independent Colonies create a new government; George Washington and Thomas Jefferson become presidents; Lewis and Clark expedition.
Episode 3
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
Religious freedom; Salem witch trials; Trail of Tears; Gold Rush; Daniel Boone; Andrew Jackson; James K. Polk.
Episode 4
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
Industrial revolution brings steamboats, the Erie Canal and the railroad; women rally for equal rights.
Episode 5
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
Slavery; abolition movement; Underground Railroad; Frederick Douglass; Abraham Lincoln.
Episode 6
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
The Civil War; the battles of Bull Run, Antietam and Gettysburg; Ulysses S. Grant; William T. Sherman; Lincoln's assassination.
Episode 7
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
Reconstruction in the South begins after the Civil War; a new era of segregation begins with Plessy vs. Ferguson.
Episode 8
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
Immigrants become targets of white prejudice, while settlers and soldiers massacre western American Indians or force them onto reservations.
Episode 9
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
A new labor movement emerges for workers' rights; Susan B. Anthony paves the way for women's right to vote.
Episode 10
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
The Statue of Liberty symbolizes what's best about America; Mother Jones brings child labor to the forefront; Jane Addams creates Hull House.
Episode 11
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
The Wright brothers; the United States joins World War I; women's right to vote; prohibition.
Episode 12
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
America crashes into the Great Depression; Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal; Adolf Hitler rises to power.
Episode 13
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
America strives to rebuild democracies throughout the world; the Cold War begins and the fear of Communism spreads.
Episode 14
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights marches; high school is integrated; John F. Kennedy becomes president.
Episode 15
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
Assassinations of President Kennedy and Marting Luther King, Jr.; war in Vietnam; non-violent civil rights resistance.
Episode 16
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
America prospers into the new millennium and rallies together following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.