Audio CD: 1. Introduction
2. Mowhawks spill tea in Boston Harbor
3. Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence
4. The American army suffers at Valley Forge
5. Tecumseh pledges support to the British
6. "Old America is moving westward"
7. Settlers recall growing up in the early Republic
8. Mark Twain on the Pony Express
9. Three accounts of pioneer life
10. The Reverend Walsh inspects a slave ship
11. Abraham Lincoln : O captain, my captain
12. Writing "The battle hymn of the Republic"
13. The Civil War ends with a surrender
14. Robert Louis Stevenson travels across the Plains
15. Henry Ford constructs a gasoline buggy
16. Jacob Riis discovers how the other half lives
17. Theodore Roosevelt takes charge of the Navy
19. The Marines cross a river under fire on Guadalcanal
20. An American plane ushers in the Atomic Age
21. The GIs and modern America
22. Edward R. Murrow on the meaning of television
23. John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural address
24. Rosa Parks gets arested in Montgomery
25. The Democratic convention, August 1968
26. Neil Armstrong reminisces about his moon walk
27. The harrowing evacuation of Saigon
28. Bill Gates on the birth of the personal computer
29. Michael Kinsley on the impeachment of Bill Clinton
30. Toward the new millennium