Disc 1. 1. 1865: "Bind up the nation's wounds" --
2. The Reconstruction revolution --
3. Buffalo Bill Cody and the myth of the West --
4. Smokestack Nation: the industrial titans --
5. Andrew Carnegie: the self-made ideal --
6. Big business: democracy for sale?
Disc 2. 7. The new immigrants: a new America --
8. Big cities: the underbelly revealed --
9. Popular culture: jazz, modern art, movies --
10. New technology: cars, electricity, records --
11. The 1892 Homestead Strike --
12. Morals and manners: middle-class society.
Disc 3. 13. Mrs. Vanderbilt's gala ball --
14. Populist revolt: the Grangers and Coxey --
15. Rough Riders and the imperial dream --
16. No more corsets: the new woman --
17. Trust-busting in the Progressive Era --
18. The 1911 triangle fire and reform.
Disc 4. 19. Theodore Roosevelt, conservationist --
20. Urban reform: how the other half lives --
21. The 17th Amendment: democracy restored --
22. Early civil rights: Washington or Du Bois? --
23. Over there: a world safe for democracy --
24. Upheaval and the end of an era.
