volume 1 Disc 1 1865 : "bind up the nation's wounds" The Reconstruction revolution Disc 2 Buffalo Bill Cody and the myth of the west Smokestack nation : the industrial titans Disc 3 Andrew Carnegie : the self-made ideal Big business : democracy for sale? Disc 4 The new immigrants : a new America Big cities : the underbelly revealed Disc 5 Popular culture : jazz, modern art, movies New technology : cars, electricity, records Disc 6 The 1892 homestead strike Morals and manners : middle-class society
Mrs. Vanderbilt's gala ball
Populist revolt : the Grangers and Coxey
Rough Riders and the imperial dream
No more corsets : the new woman
Trust-busting in the progressive era
The 1911 Triangle fire and reform
Theodore Roosevelt, conservationist
Urban reform : how the other half lives
The 17th Amendment : democracy restored
Early civil rights : Washington or Du Bois?
Over there : a world safe for democracy
Upheaval and the end of an era.
