Reconstruction and the Changing South (1863–1896)
The New West (1865–1914)
Industrial Growth (1865–1914)
1. Introduction 0:00:39
2. Big Business: Rockefeller & Carnegie 0:01:54
3. The Railroad: Connecting the Coasts 0:01:06
4. Machine Power: Increasing Productivity 0:01:27
5. Urbanization: Changing the Landscape 0:02:52
6. African Americans in the Gilded Age 0:01:48
7. The Conquest of the West 0:02:11
8. The Victorians 0:03:30
9. Seeking Reform 0:05:59
10. Gilded Politics 0:03:46
11. The Birth of the Populist Party 0:02:21
12. The American Empire 0:02:11
13. Innovations of the Gilded Age 0:01:31
A New Urban Culture (1865–1914)
1. Freedom: A History of US: Yearning to Breathe Free 0:30:00
Welcomes the Statue of Liberty, symbol of the best in America, to Ellis Island, New York; meets Mother Jones, a the child labor rights champion; and visits Jane Addams's Hull House in Chicago.
2.The Age of the City 0:27:15
Chronicles the rapid population growth in major cities in the United States during the late 1800s due to rapid immigration from Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Russia. The program examines immigrants’ assimilation into the United States and the public pressures they faced to abandon any sense of their “Old World identity.” Segments on the gender roles of immigrant men and women and growing differentiation between the upper and middle classes emphasizes immigration's ruffling of the American social fabric. Urban life--focusing specifically on tenement apartments in Chicago and Milwaukee, unemployment, and pollution--is compared to homes in the outlying suburbs, revealing the catalysts behind the development of departments of public health and such capitalistic enterprises as Sears and Roebuck.
3. The Chinese Exclusion Act 0:01:28
4. Realism 0:00:28
5. Scott Joplin and Ragtime 0:01:28
The Progressive Era (1876 - 1920)
1. Introduction 0:00:51
2. A World Power 0:01:35
3. The Panama Canal 0:02:26
4. The Plight of Laborers 0:03:14
5. Progressivism 0:02:18
6. The Square Deal 0:02:14
7. Roosevelt, Taft, & Reform 0:02:53
8. The Progressive Party 0:01:09
9. The Wilson Administration 0:02:57
10. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 0:01:24
11. Women in the Progressive Era 0:01:23
12. Immigration in the Progressive Era 0:01:46
13. African Americans in the Progressive Era 0:02:26
14. Technology in the Progressive Era 0:02:20
15. The End of the Progressive Era 0:01:24
Becoming a World Power (1865–1916)
World War I (1914–1919)
The Roaring Twenties (1919–1929)
The Great Depression (1929–1941)
The World War II Era (1935–1945)
The Cold War Era (1945–1991)
Prosperity, Rebellion, and Reform (1945–1980)
The Nation in a New World (1970–Present)
