United States history : origins to 2000

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.

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.

Explores the environmental issues created by the advent of the railroad and steam engine, the development of large corporations, and the growth of cities between 1870 and 1910.

Reenactments, readings, interviews, film footage, and photographs explore major events involving World War I including the War Industries Board and Wilson's Fourteen Points.

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.