United States history : origins to 2000

Explores the Civil Rights movement including the efforts to end segregation of African Americans and to obtain equal rights for other ethnic groups, women, and the disabled. Uses archival footage and interviews to provide an account of the people, events, and legislation of the times.

Reenactments, dramatic readings, and interviews with historians examine Democratic reforms of the mid-nineteenth century, discussing Jacksonian democracy, the rise of the Whig Party, antebellum reform movements, urban revival, women's suffrage, and the abolition movement.

Examines the events that brought the U.S. into World War II and the impact of the war on the nation; and covers topics such as the Lend-Lease Act, Pearl Harbor, and internment of Japanese Americans.

Uses reenactments, dramatic readings, and interviews with historians to examine significant events in the political history of the U.S. from 1960 to 1980, a period that encompassed the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter, discussing the Civil Rights movement, the Iranian hostage crisis, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, and other topics.

Uses reenactments, dramatic readings, and interviews with historians to examine significant events in the history of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, discussing the actions of President Lyndon Johnson, the Tet Offensive, the anti-war movement, the "domino theory," and other topics.

Covers events in the history of the United States Civil War including major battles, technological innovations and military strategy, draft riots and Northern dissension, Native American affairs, the Emancipation Proclamation, and African-Americans and the war.