The making of America

Presents the story of the lawyer who successfully argued the case that ended legal racial segregation in America, describing what segregated life was like, Marshall's own slave ancestry and his effective "We the people" strategy.

Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, discussing his early life and how he became America's thirty-second president. Explores how his four presidential terms and his policies during the Great Depression and World War II helped to shape modern America.

A biography of Susan B. Anthony discussing her early life growing up in a Quaker household, her advocacy of women's voting rights, her friendship with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and her legacy as a leader in the fight for women's rights.

Traces the transformation of American economic life, social structure, political behavior, and patterns of ideas which took place in the four decades between the end of Reconstruction and the close of World War I, and allowed the nation to cope with the challenges of urbanization, industrialization, and immigration.