Disc 1. 1617 The great epidemic
1619 Land of the free? Slavery begins
1636 Freedom of worship Roger Williams
1654 Yearning to breathe free immigration
1676 Near disaster King Philip's War
1735 Freedom of the press
Disc 2. 1773 Liberty! The Boston Tea Party
1776 We're outta here declaring independence
1777 Game changer the Battle of Saratoga
1786 Toward a Constitution Shay's rebellion
1789 Samuel Slater the industrial revolution
Disc 3. 1803 Supreme authority Marbury v. Madison
1807 On the move transportation revolution
1816 One man, one vote expanding suffrage
1821 Reborn the second great awakening
1831 The righteous crusade abolition
1844 What's new? The communication revolution.
Disc 4. 1845 The ultimate American game baseball
1846 Land and gold the Mexican War
1862 Go West, young man! The Homestead Act
1862 Terrible reality The Battle of Antietam
1868 Equal protection the 14th Amendment
Disc 5. 1873 Bloody Sunday ending Reconstruction
1876 How the West was won and lost Custer
1886 The first Red scare Haymarket
1898 The end of isolation War with Spain
1900 The promised land the great migration
1901 That damned cowboy! Theodore Roosevelt.
Disc 6. 1903 The second transportation revolution
1909 The scourge of the South hookworm
1917 Votes for women! The 19th Amendment
1919 Strikes and bombs the year of upheaval
1933 Bold experimentation The New Deal
Disc 7. 1942 Surprise The Battle of Midway
1945 The land of lawns suburbanization
1948 The Berlin Airlift and the cold War
1950 Tuning in the birth of television
1960 The power to choose the pill
1963 Showdown in Birmingham
Disc 8. 1968 Losing Vietnam the Tet Offensive
1969 Disaster the birth of environmentalism
1974 An age of crisis Watergate
1975 The digital age the personal computer
1989 Collapse the end of the Cold War
