Native American Cultures (1491-1607)
Spanish Colonization of the Americas
French Colonization of North America
Dutch Colonization of North America
English Colonization of the Americas
The Colonists, the Indians, and General Patton
The Virginia Colony, Part II: Indentured Servitude, Slavery, and the 1622 Massacre
Pilgrims, Puritans, and Separatists
Religious Freedom in Colonial New England, Part I
Religious Freedom in Colonial New England, Part II: Roger Williams: America's First Baptist
Religious Freedom in Colonial New England, Part III: Anne Hutchinson: Religious Dissenter
Deism (Natural vs. Revealed Religion in the Enlightenment)
The French and Indian War as a Turning Point
Parliament Taxes the Colonies (Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts)
Road to Revolution (Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, Lexington & Concord)
Thomas Paine's Crisis and the Battle of Trenton
Thomas Paine: the Che Guevara of the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris 1783 (American Revolutionary War)
Jefferson and the Constitution: NOT Love at First Sight
Thomas Jefferson vs Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson's Agrarian Vision
George Washington's Foreign Policy (Neutrality, Citizen Genet, Jay Treaty, Pinckney's Treaty)
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Jefferson, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Constitution
Jefferson, Neutrality, and the Embargo
The Missouri Compromise of 1820, Part I
The Missouri Compromise of 1820, Part II: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
Are Protective Tariffs Constitutional?
The Temperance Movement: Origins of America's "Alcohol Problem"
Free Soil and the Wilmot Proviso
American Federation of Labor (American Labor Movement)
Thomas Jefferson vs. Teddy Roosevelt (Founders vs. Progressives)
Progressive Era Amendments to the Constitution
The Versailles Treaty: Wilson vs. the Senate
American Foreign Policy Between WWI and WWII (1920-1939)
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Compared
Richard Nixon's Foreign Policy (Cold War
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the Environmental Movement