History of the United States — Comprehensive

A dramatized window onto Jamestown and the first encounters, especially the unequal balance between English settlers and Powhatan communities.

Centers enslaved people and intergenerational memory instead of narrating the colonial era only through settlers and elites.

Places the French and Indian War within a conflict involving imperial and Indigenous interests.

Explores independence, the Continental Congress and debates over the early republic through a key founder.

Adds the diplomatic dimension of the Revolution and the crucial French alliance.

Dramatizes the Delaware campaign and why the military outcome of independence remained uncertain.

Explores wartime intelligence, loyalties and occupation in the New York area.

Brings abolition-era court battles and resistance by captive Africans into the narrative.

Grounds antebellum slavery in a first-person account of kidnapping and enslavement.

Highlights the role and sacrifices of Black Union soldiers in the struggle against slavery.

Follows the political struggle to secure the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.

Adds a civilian and soldier-level perspective from the Confederate South.

Uses railroad building to explore postwar labor, violence and the contested American West.

Portrays settler migration and the dangers of nineteenth-century frontier travel.

Shows class hierarchy, wealth and status in rapidly growing late-nineteenth-century New York.

Confronts the exploitation and murders of Osage people amid oil wealth in the 1920s.

Depicts test pilots and the beginnings of the American space program in the Cold War setting.

Links scientific mobilization, the atomic bomb and postwar security politics.

Provides a documentary examination of a major conflict and its political and social consequences.

Uses one fictionalized White House worker’s career to connect successive presidencies with racial history.

Focuses on the 1965 voting-rights campaign and the organizing behind a landmark moment.

Follows Watergate reporting and the accountability crisis of the Nixon era.

Adds debates over press freedom and the Pentagon Papers.

Connects late-twentieth-century corporate and regulatory decisions with the opioid epidemic.