[Volume 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-- the Zenger trial --
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 --
1800 Peaceful transfer-- the election of 1800 --
[Volume 2]: 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 --
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 --
1872 Open spaces-- the National Parks --
[Volume 3]: 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 --
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 --
1939 Einstein's letter-- The Manhattan Project --
[Volume 4]: 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-- civil rights --
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 --