Course workbook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lesson outlines, with comprehensive and essay questions for each lesson, and answers. 30 lectures (30 min. each).

Part 1: Lesson 1. Pre Columbian America -- lesson 2. Discovery and exploration of America -- lesson 3. The Virginia Colony -- lesson 4. Pilgrims and Puritans -- lesson 5. Other European colonies -- lesson 6. Witches, Quakers, and Catholics -- lesson 7. Life in Colonial America -- lesson 8. Swashbucklers, smugglers, and slavers -- Lesson 9. The Great Awakening and Enlightenment -- Lesson 10. Wars with France. Part 2: Lesson 11. Seeds of revolution and war -- lesson 12. Men of the Revolution -- lesson 13. Declaration of Independence -- lesson 14. Revolutionary War--on land and sea -- lesson 15. The national government and the war's end -- lesson 16. Stretching in the western boundaries -- lesson 17. The Constitution -- lesson 18. Washington and the new government -- lesson 19. French and American Revolutions -- lesson 20. Dividing of patriots--the two party system. Part 3: Lesson 21. Era of Jefferson -- lesson 22. War hawks, Indians, and the War of 1812 -- lesson 23. Industrial Revolution -- lesson 24. Cities and the transportation revolution -- lesson 25. Era of Jackson -- lesson 26. Texas -- lesson 27. The trails west -- lesson 28. Colonizing the west--the Mormons -- lesson 29. Mexican territories and war -- lesson 30. West to California.