The History of the United States, 2nd Edition

Where to Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition

Reflections

2003-10-06

The immense vitality and diversity of American life have been sustained by several recurrent themes. Compared to its high ideals, America always fell short.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 84 Now

Clinton's America and the Millennium

2003-10-06

Bill Clinton's eight-year administration underlined the difference between America and other Western nations that had created cradle-to-grave social welfare states. Continued turbulence in the Middle East made America a devil-nation to the Arab world.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 83 Now

The New World Order

2003-10-06

When the Soviet Union went through a peaceful transition to democracy, the United States was left as the world's one great superpower, able to preside over the creation of numerous new nations with more or less democratic and America-inspired political systems. In the 1990s, the absence of Communist repression permitted old ethnic and religious animosities in Eastern Europe to resurface.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 82 Now

Carter and the Reagan Revolution

2003-10-06

Jimmy Carter won the 1976 presidential race but was presented with an ugly combination of economic stagnation and inflation (stagflation), the Iranian revolution, and the Tehran hostage crisis. Ronald Reagan escalated the Cold War by planning space-based weapons, and aimed to diminish the reach of the federal government.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 81 Now

Religion in Twentieth-Century America

2003-10-06

America is a far more religious society than other Western industrial nations - another example of its exceptionalism. It also tolerated an exotic array of sects and cults, from hippies to the followers of Jim Jones who committed mass suicide in 1978.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 80 Now

Environmentalism

2003-10-06

The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, the year the Environmental Protection Agency was created. Endangered species, wild rivers, and scarce water resources all became issues of government concern, as did the cleanup of toxic chemical sites.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 79 Now

Nixon and Watergate

2003-10-06

By the standards of his later Republican successors, President Richard Nixon was a center or even liberal Republican. Nixon won easily in 1972 against George McGovern, but was ruined by revelations over the next two years that he had known of a break-in of McGovern's campaign headquarters and had tried to orchestrate a cover-up.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 78 Now

The Women's Movement

2003-10-06

In the late 1960s, the women's liberation movement came into being. The National Organization for Women campaigned successfully for the abolition of gender discrimination in employment.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 77 Now

The Vietnam War

2003-10-06

By 1968, half a million American soldiers were fighting in Vietnam. Casualties and TV footage of troops persecuting villagers or accidentally bombing children with napalm turned public opinion against the war.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 76 Now

The Rise of Mass Media

2003-10-06

Thousands of newspapers in 20th-century America, with radio stations, television, and the world's strongest movie industry, informed citizens well about their surroundings and about political and social questions. Media power transformed the nature of politics, lobbying, and even the military, as the armed forces discovered to its detriment in Vietnam.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 75 Now

The New Frontier and the Great Society

2003-10-06

President John F. Kennedy's escalation of the Cold War was offset by a new concern for legislating on behalf of the poor and minorities.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 74 Now

The Civil Rights Movement

2003-10-06

The Supreme Court's decisions in the Brown case (1954) and the Montgomery bus boycott (1955-1956) inaugurated the activist phase of the civil rights movement. Disputes over busing and affirmative action clouded bitter political disagreements.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 73 Now

The Affluent Society

2003-10-06

World War II caused a dramatic redistribution of income. Consumer-goods manufacturers and advertisers took advantage of steady rises in available discretionary income.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 72 Now

The Korean War and McCarthyism

2003-10-06

Espionage cases in the late 1940s heightened fears of Communism. The Truman administration began to investigate the loyalty of federal employees.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 71 Now

The Cold War

2003-10-06

America and the Soviet Union disagreed over the future of eastern Europe. A temporary dividing line drawn through Europe became permanent.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 70 Now

World War II - The Pacific Theater

2003-10-06

Aircraft carriers became the crucial weapon of the Pacific war. By mid-1945, Allied victory in the Pacific was assured.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 69 Now

World War II - The European Theater

2003-10-06

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin determined how to engage their forces over Europe and North Africa. A year of hard campaigning led to the defeat of Germany, a junction with Soviet forces in central Europe, and discovery of the Holocaust's full horror.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 68 Now

World War II - The Road to Pearl Harbor

2003-10-06

Hitler's successful attacks on his European neighbors in 1939 and 1940 and his vicious anti-Jewish policies caused many Americans to seek intervention on behalf of Britain. Roosevelt committed America to full-scale war only after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 67 Now

The New Deal

2003-10-06

President Franklin Roosevelt's creation of federal agencies to oversee relief and regulatory tasks marked a dramatic shift of power out of the states and into the federal government. Roosevelt, re-elected in 1936, tried to safeguard his political innovations by enlarging the Supreme Court with pro-New Deal justices.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 66 Now

The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression

2003-10-06

The collapse of share prices on Wall Street in 1929 ruined many and destroyed the savings of thousands more. From 1929 to 1933, a downward spiral of economic shrinkage, bankruptcies, factory closings, and rapidly worsening unemployment occurred.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 65 Now

The 1920s

2003-10-06

Prohibition created ideal conditions for organized crime; the alcohol ban became unenforceable. The revival of the Ku Klux Klan targeted Catholics and Jews as much as African Americans.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 64 Now

World War I - Versailles and Wilson's Gambit

2003-10-06

President Wilson traveled to Versailles for the 1919 peace talks to discover that victorious English and French leaders wanted vindictive reparations. Hoping to rectify the treaty's worst features through the League of Nations, Wilson was thwarted by the Senate's refusal to join the League.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 63 Now

World War I - The Road to Intervention

2003-10-06

When Europe went to war in 1914, America stayed aloof. But sympathy for Britain was strong among President Wilson and his cabinet.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 62 Now

Mass Production

2003-10-06

Manufacturers began to mass-produce products they could sell cheaply and in large numbers through nationwide advertising campaigns. Henry Ford perfected the automobile assembly line in 1914, reduced the price of cars, and raised his workers' wages, which increased their loyalty and made them potential buyers.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 61 Now

Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism

2003-10-06

Progressive reformers in the early 1900s tried to increase honesty and efficiency in business and government. Theodore Roosevelt, the first president to embrace the Progressive outlook, established the principle of presidential initiative in progressive legislative programs and created a template for his successors to increase federal government power over the states.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 60 Now

Labor and Capital

2003-10-06

The great railroad strike of 1877 showed that strikes could succeed if they enjoyed community support but would fail if business owners used their political influence and court injunctions against the unions. Bitter union-management confrontations punctuated the 1890s.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 59 Now

City Life

2003-10-06

American cities were often badly planned and became overcrowded with ethnic and linguistic neighborhoods. Cities were severely polluted with smoke and ash; contaminated water supplies, poor sanitation, and large numbers of horses worsened public health conditions and shortened life expectancy.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 58 Now

The New Immigration

2003-10-06

Late 19th-century Europe was full of stories about America, and bad conditions for farmers prompted many of them to emigrate. Parents found that, with hard work, they, or their children, could climb to American prosperity and respectability.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 57 Now

The Populists

2003-10-06

Southern cotton sharecroppers, black and white, and Midwestern farmers were falling into debt. They tried cooperative marketing schemes but decided to turn to politics to legislate for better conditions.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 56 Now

Religion in Victorian America

2003-10-06

Victorian religion in America was less doctrinal and more sentimental than its Puritan antecedents. Traveling revivalists and preachers tried to help the poor and reform grim urban conditions and worked to outlaw alcohol.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 55 Now

Men and Women

2003-10-06

Middle-class Americans emphasized differences between the two sexes. Doctors said political rights for women would make them mannish, threatening differences embedded in nature itself.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 54 Now

African Americans after Reconstruction

2003-10-06

When Reconstruction ended in 1876, southern "Redeemers" took political control of the South, passing legislation enforcing racial segregation. The federal government's decision to withdraw from the area meant that the white elite ruled unchallenged for much of the next 80 years.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 53 Now

Farming the Great Plains

2003-10-06

The Homestead Act encouraged farmers to acquire land at almost no cost, and those who could overcome the loneliness, prairie fires, insect infestations, extremes of climate, and incessant winds were able to build prosperous lives. By 1890, they were growing massive annual surpluses, driving down the cost of food throughout the Western world and eliminating the danger of famine in America.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 52 Now

The Last Indian Wars

2003-10-06

The coming of settlers with the railroads made continuation of the Indians' independent life impossible, in addition to the near extinction of the buffalo and gold rushes. Plains tribes were warrior societies that lived to fight and ought not to be romanticized.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 51 Now

Transcontinental Railroads

2003-10-06

The first transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869. Completion cut travel time from the Mississippi to the West Coast from three months to about one week.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 50 Now

Industrialization

2003-10-06

In the late 19th century, the scale of American industry increased dramatically. John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie built massive corporations and dominated entire sectors of the economy. With brilliant inventors, and a succession of improvements in manufacturing, the United States became one of the three world leaders in industry by 1890, rivaling Britain and Germany.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 49 Now

Reconstruction Ends

2003-10-06

Reconstruction improved many aspects of black Southerners' lives, at least for a number of years, and left deep scars on a white South that labored diligently to project an image of Northern oppression. The episode closes with an assessment of whether Reconstruction should be judged a success or a moment of lost opportunity for African Americans in the United States.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 48 Now

Congress Takes Command

2003-10-06

Congress took control of Reconstruction policy in early 1867. Ulysses S. Grant, who supported Congress, won the presidency in 1868. This episode examines the struggle between Johnson and Congress, analyzes Reconstruction legislation, describes the state governments set up under that legislation in former Confederate states, and assesses the meaning of the election of 1868.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 47 Now

Presidential Reconstruction

2003-10-06

Debates in the North over how best to bring the Confederate states back into the Union began while the war still raged. This episode examines the wartime context and continues through Johnson's early presidency.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 46 Now

The Union Drive to Victory

2003-10-06

The outcome of the war remained uncertain as late as the summer of 1864. Successes turned the tide decisively in favor of the Union.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 45 Now

African Americans in Wartime

2003-10-06

This episode examines the experiences of African Americans on both sides, addressing, among other topics, black soldiers in US military forces, the experience of hundreds of thousands of black refugees in the South, the weakening of the bonds of slavery in much of the Confederacy, and Confederate debates over emancipation late in the conflict.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 44 Now

Behind the Lines - Politics and Economies

2003-10-06

Almost all military campaigning occurred in the Confederacy, dealing severe blows to industrial and agricultural production and material hardships to its population. The North proved able to produce guns and butter, and the Republican-dominated Congress passed legislation designed to make the nation a great industrial and commercial power.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 43 Now

Diplomatic Clashes and Sustaining the War

2003-10-06

This episode shifts from the battlefield to the home front. We look at diplomacy and the blockade. The episode examines the difficulty and cost of fielding and maintaining large armies. We discuss Union and Confederate conscription, the ways each side raised money, and the production and delivery of military supplies.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 42 Now

Shifting Tides of Battle

2003-10-06

The year between the summer of 1862 and the summer of 1863 convinced Americans on both sides that the war would be long and bitter. This episode traces some of the major military campaigns of this year, underscoring the enormous swings of morale behind the lines in the North and South as each side won victories and suffered defeats.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 41 Now

The First Year of Fighting

2003-10-06

This episode stresses that either side could have won the Civil War and offers a careful analysis of the strengths and weaknesses each brought to the early stages of the fight. The war mushroomed from a limited military contest at the time of First Bull Run in July 1861 into a massive struggle by the time of Shiloh and the Seven Days battles in the spring and early summer of 1862.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 40 Now

The Coming of War

2003-10-06

Deep South states seceded in response to Lincoln's election, but only the crisis at Fort Sumter in April 1861 convinced the Upper South to secede. A range of opinion existed in most slaveholding states regarding secession.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 39 Now

Drifting Toward Disaster

2003-10-06

This episode highlights the failure of national institutions to push compromise on slavery and its extension into the territories. It also emphasizes the Dred Scott case of 1857, debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 38 Now

Sectional Tensions Escalate

2003-10-06

This episode surveys manifestations of sectional animosity, especially regarding slavery, and gives attention to the brief history of the American, or Know-Nothing, Party. It also stresses the idea that, whatever the real divisions between them, Northerners and Southerners increasingly proved willing to believe the worst about the other.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 37 Now

The Great Compromise

2003-10-06

The wrangling over whether to allow slavery in the territories gained from the Mexican Cession led to southern threats of disunion and was aggravated by the sudden death of President Taylor. Henry Clay took the floor of the Senate to shape his last Union-saving compromise, which looked as if it would permanently dampen the slavery agitation.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 36 Now

The Mexican War

2003-10-06

James K. Polk's election was the signal for the renewal of Jacksonian expansionism and the use of expansionism to serve the interests of slavery.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 35 Now

Whose Manifest Destiny?

2003-10-06

Americans swarmed into the Louisiana Purchase territories, triggering three major conflicts: with the Plains Indian tribes, with Mexico over the province of Texas, and the third over the admission of slavery into the Louisiana Purchase.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 34 Now

Southern Society and the Defense of Slavery

2003-10-06

Declining profitability before 1800 suggested that slavery would gradually die out, but the success of cotton agriculture and the labor needed to sustain it resurrected slavery. Northern abolitionists gathered force in the 1830s; southern demands for protection and extradition of runaways led to mob violence and aggressive antislavery organizing in the North.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 33 Now

The Age of Reform

2003-10-06

The sense that the American Republic represented the vanguard of a new age of freedom spawned campaigns to advance American perfection and freedom. Their common message was one of optimism, but it carried the threat that a democracy would find itself incapable of achieving stability.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 32 Now

American Romanticism

2003-10-06

From the 1820s, Americans embraced the appeal of Romanticism. In literature, it was manifested in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalists, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville; in religion, it was illustrated by the Mercersburg theology; and in politics, it was reflected in the rhetoric of Whigs and Democrats and the argument over passion.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 31 Now

Whigs and Democrats

2003-10-06

Jackson's Democrats thought of freedom as the privilege to be wealthy, and that liberty was a negative, not positive, idea. Blaming Martin van Buren for the depression, voters elected William Henry Harrison as the first Whig president.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 30 Now

The Monster Bank

2003-10-06

The Second Bank of the United States regulated the economy by controlling the money supply and by promoting national investment. In 1831, Second Bank director Nicholas Biddle applied to Congress for rechartering; Jackson vetoed the bill.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 29 Now

The Politics of Distrust

2003-10-06

Adams's presidency was one of the worst political disasters in the history of the American presidency. Jackson gathered his forces for 1828, and won by a staggering landslide in the first popular election of a president.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 28 Now

The Military Chieftain

2003-10-06

By 1824, Jefferson's Republican Party was becoming two parties: the National Republicans and the Democratic-Republicans. John Quincy Adams, the heir apparent, was unmistakably a National Republican.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 27 Now

Dark Satanic Mills

2003-10-06

The Industrial Revolution involved the invention or reinvention of machines, power, labor, and capital. But industrial growth could not go on forever without serious social consequences, manifested in the first labor strikes, union organizations, and workingmen's political parties in the 1830s.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 26 Now

The Second Great Awakening

2003-10-06

Three factors played a role in creating a Christian America: the resiliency of revival, the absorption of virtue, and the substitution of millennialism.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 25 Now

National Republican Follies

2003-10-06

The year 1819 blew up in the faces of the bankers, brokers, National Republicans, and everyone else who had leveraged themselves to the market system. It was the year of the Great Panic.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 24 Now

A Nation Announcing Itself

2003-10-06

By the 1820s, immigrants flowed through America's seaports from Europe; and with the clearance of Indian resistance, the Northwest Territory was opened by massive government land sales. Many emigrants, however, chose to stay in the cities they first entered, and their numbers soon swelled the size of the American urban population.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 23 Now

The "American System"

2003-10-06

The War of 1812 collapsed the US Treasury, bankrupted hundreds of businesses, and soaked up the tiny hoard of American financial capital by government borrowing. Henry Clay and John C.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 22 Now

The Disastrous War of 1812

2003-10-06

In 1812, Madison sent a request to Congress for a declaration of war, but the War of 1812 was a debacle. In October 1814, the Massachusetts legislature passed a peace resolution and threatened secession from the Union.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 21 Now

The Agrarian Republic

2003-10-06

Jefferson was committed to keeping the American Republic an agrarian society, a culture of independence, nonmarket agriculture, and community. No regard was paid to the claims of the North American Indians.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 20 Now

Territory and Treason

2003-10-06

With renewed war in Europe on the horizon, Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana province for $15 million. Jefferson asked Congress to finance a secret scouting party under Lewis and Clark.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 19 Now

The Jeffersonian Reaction

2003-10-06

Thomas Jefferson proved incapable of creating a practical set of alternatives to Hamilton's hard-headed fiscal policies, particularly in defense and in foreign trade. He was also surprised by the activism of the federal judiciary, which, under Chief Justice John Marshall, began to operate as a serious restraint on the scope of Jefferson's actions.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 18 Now

Adams and Liberty

2003-10-06

Few people liked John Adams, so it was fortunate that the first major challenge of his administration involved a foreign policy problem, where few had more expertise than he. But Adams squandered all the political capital he accumulated.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 17 Now

Republicans and Federalists

2003-10-06

The surprise development in the new republic's political life was the formation of political parties. James Madison became the organizer of the Democratic-Republicans, and Hamilton recruited his Congressional supporters into the Federalist Party.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 16 Now

Hamilton's Republic

2003-10-06

For Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury, the republic depended on developing the republic's systems of finance, manufacturing, and commerce. Opposing him were Thomas Jefferson and the southern agricultural interests in Congress, both of whom believed that the future of America lay in independent domestic agriculture.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 15 Now

Creating the Constitution

2003-10-06

The Revolution was not even over before the ramshackle nature of the Articles of Confederation began to show at the seams. A convention assembled in Philadelphia in 1787 to construct a constitution, which proposed a single executive president, a bicameral Congress, and a judiciary.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 14 Now

The American Revolution - Washington's War

2003-10-06

The money, credit, weapons, and French naval and military resources forced the British to shift the focus of their war. British field forces fell under a combined land-and-sea campaign conducted by Washington and the French at Yorktown, where the British surrendered.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 13 Now

The American Revolution - Howe's War

2003-10-06

From a military viewpoint, the Revolution started well and spiraled downward. The Continental Army, under the command of George Washington, faced humiliating defeats, abandoning all of New York and New Jersey to the British.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 12 Now

The American Revolution - Politics and People

2003-10-06

In the Second Continental Congress of July 1776, a resolution declaring independence was adopted by the Congress and framed by a Declaration of Independence composed by Thomas Jefferson. In the Articles of Confederation of 1781, a joint government for the United States was created.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 11 Now

The Rejection of Empire

2003-10-06

In 1765, Parliament moved to levy direct taxes on the colonies and to regulate colonial trade so that it profited Britain. Protests by the legislatures of the North American colonies led to outright conflict, the suspension of colonial governments by Parliament, the creation of a Continental Congress, and, finally, an organized military confrontation at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 10 Now

The Great War for Empire

2003-10-06

By the mid-1700s, Britain and France were the two rivals for dominance of America. The war for empire, the French and Indian War, broke out in 1754, and at first went badly for England.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 9 Now

The Great Awakening

2020-06-01

The stresses of Colonial life produced unusual social eruptions that were aimed at regaining some sense of control. The Great Awakening, a revival of radical Protestant religion across New England, helped people recover a sense of spiritual significance and moral direction; it also touched off violent religious controversy.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 8 Now

Printers, Painters, and Preachers

2003-10-06

Americans developed cultural forms in both music and art that were uniquely American. The most important cultural transition, part of the European Enlightenment, was from a religious to a scientific and secular understanding of the world.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 7 Now

An Economy of Slaves

2003-10-06

The transition of settlements to stable commercial success would not have been possible without a source of cheap labor. America's immensity of land and lack of labor to develop it required forced migration of laborers: convicts, indentured servants, beggars.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 6 Now

Traders in the Wilderness

2003-10-06

The broad stretch of coastal territory between the Chesapeake and Long Island had been settled by the Swedes along the Delaware Bay and the Dutch along the Hudson River. Dutch settlements (renamed New York) developed into a major commercial center.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 5 Now

Radicals in the Wilderness

2020-06-01

If the southern English colonies were motivated by economic self-interest, the northern settlements were motivated by ideas. In New England's case, the ideas were religious.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 4 Now

Gentlemen in the Wilderness

2003-10-06

The English joined the great game of extraction and settlement last of all the major European nations. By 1680, settlements around the Chesapeake Bay achieved success with tobacco and the forced recruitment of a workforce of African slaves.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 3 Now

Spain, France, and the Netherlands

2003-10-06

The Spanish tapped sources of wealth in the Americas, displaying the most wanton cruelty in obtaining it. By 1600, they had evolved from an extraction society to a settler society.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 2 Now

Living Bravely

2003-10-06

Columbus's discovery of a New World allowed Europeans to, first, exploit natural and human resources, and later, to write new social, economic, and political scripts for their lives in a place where European ideas of society no longer applied.

Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Season 1 Episode 1 Now

The History of the United States, 2nd Edition is a series categorized as a new series. Spanning 1 seasons with a total of 84 episodes, the show debuted on 2003. The series has earned a no reviews from both critics and viewers. The IMDb score stands at undefined.

How to Watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition

How can I watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition online? The History of the United States, 2nd Edition is available on The Great Courses Signature Collection with seasons and full episodes. You can also watch The History of the United States, 2nd Edition on demand at Amazon Prime, Apple TV Channels, Kanopy, Amazon online.

Genres

Documentary & Biography

Channel

The Great Courses Signature Collection

Cast

Allen C. Guelzo, Gary W. Gallagher

Stream shows like The History of the United States, 2nd Edition