1775-1865

In 1837-38, residents of Millbrook, Massachusetts, speak in their different voices of major issues of their day, including women's rights, slavery, religious differences, and one fiery girl named Faith.

Two men in the 1820s convince much of New York City that a plan is in the works to saw off the southern half of Manhattan and place it somewhere else in order to keep it from sinking into the harbor. Based on a famous hoax, the authenticity of which has not been proven.

Expert forensic constable Ichabod Crane is summoned from New York to the small town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitation murders of the hamlet's leading citizens by a phantom headless horseman.

Uses a collective biography approach to provide an account of the scalawags--white southerners who opposed secession in the Civil War era, and whose pro-Union stance led to their being appointed to political office in the federal government under the Reconstruction Acts.

Recreates a southern plantation of 1853 and describes the daily lives of its owners and of the slaves who worked there.

Discusses the first challenge to the new federal government of the United States, which began in 1794 when citizens of western Pennsylvania took up arms to fight against a new federal excise tax on whiskey.

A classical tragedy based on the story of Oedipus, set on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina.

Tells the story of how Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay joined forces in the wake of the Revolutionary War to write the Federalist Papers in an attempt to overcome the fears of the common man and unite the thirteen colonies.

Examines the evangelical defense used to justify slavery in the nineteenth century and explains how it influenced the South's moral, intellectual, and socio-economic development and its conflict with the North.

Explains how the views and actions of state-appointed commissioners who attempted to persuade the political leadership and the citizens of the slave states to join in efforts to destroy the Union and forge a new Southern nation lead to the start of the Civil War.