Social change in colonial America, 1750-1755. Benjamin Franklin's experiments in electricity / Daniel J. Boorstin ; Colonial home life and the consumer revolution / Stephanie Grauman Wolf ; The Iroquois Confederacy / Paul A.W. Wallace ; Immigration from the English borderlands / David Hackett Fischer ; Crime and punishment in colonial America / Arthur M. Schlesinger
The Seven Years' War, 1756-1763. The American origins of the Seven Years' War / T.R. Clayton ; Braddock's defeat at Fort Duquesne / Benjamin Franklin ; The road to British victory / James P. Myers Jr. ; The Battle of Quebec / Fred Anderson ; The Treaty of Paris, February 10, 1763 ; The western boundary of the English colonies / Dale Van Every
The calm before the storm, 1763-1774. Economic rivalry between England and its colonies / Lawrence Henry Gipson ; Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley: America's first notable artists / David Bjelajac ; Against the Stamp Act / William Pitt ; Phillis Wheatley: America's first notable poet / John C. Shields ; Report on the Boston Massacre / James Bowdoin ; Francis Hopkinson and William Billings: America's first notable composers / Ronald L. Davis ; The Boston Tea Party / George Hewes
Declaring independence, 1775-1776. The first battle of the American revolution / Eric W. Barnes ; The battle for Bunker Hill / Richard M. Ketchum ; The Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms / John Dickinson and Thomas Jefferson ; The Loyalist cause / Peter Van Schaack ; The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson
Losing battles and winning the war, 1776-1781. Military intelligence during the American revolution / Thomas Fleming ; Foreign relations during the American revolution / Samuel Flagg Bemis ; The fall of Savannah / Archibald Campbell ; Guerilla resistance in the swamps of South Carolina / Paul A. Thomsen
Founding a new nation, 1781-1783. The Articles of Confederation ; The anti-slavery movement during the American revolution / Herbert Aptheker ; The progress of women during the American revolution / Joan R. Gunderson ; The Treaty of Paris, September 3, 1783 ; Celebrations at the end of the American revolution / Kenneth Silverman.
