Volume 1. Lecture 1. The world before colonial America --
Lecture 2. Spain's New World empire --
Lecture 3. John Smith, Pocahontas, and Jamestown --
Lecture 4. Virginia and the Chesapeake after Smith --
Lecture 5. The Pilgrims and Plymouth --
Lecture 6. The Iroquois, the French, and the Dutch --
Lecture 7. The Puritans and Massachusetts --
Lecture 8. New England heretics : religious and economic --
Lecture 9. The Connecticut Valley and the Pequot War --
Lecture 10. Sugar and slaves : the Caribbean --
Lecture 11. Mercantilism and the growth of piracy --
Lecture 12. South Carolina : rice, cattle, and artisans --
Volume 2. Lecture 13. New Netherland becomes New York --
Lecture 14. King Philip's War in New England --
Lecture 15. Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia --
Lecture 16. Santa Fe and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 --
Lecture 17. William Penn's New World vision --
Lecture 18. The New England Uprising of 1689 --
Lecture 19. Witchcraft in New England --
Lecture 20. Captives and stories of captivity --
Lecture 21. The Indians' new world --
Lecture 22. Family life and labor in Colonial America --
Lecture 23. Smallpox, 1721 : the inoculation controversy --
Lecture 24. France, Senegal, and Louisiana --
Volume 3. Lecture 25. Georgia : dreams and realities --
Lecture 26. The Atlantic slave trade and South Carolina --
Lecture 27. The New York Conspiracy of 1741 --
Lecture 28. The Great Awakening --
Lecture 29. The Albany Conference of 1754 --
Lecture 30. The great war for empire --
Lecture 31. Pontiac's revolt against the British. --
Lecture 32. Imperial reform : the Sugar and Stamp Acts --
Lecture 33. North Carolina regulators seek local rule --
Lecture 34. Virginia : Patrick Henry and the West --
Lecture 35. Destruction of tea and colonial rebellion --
Lecture 36. Independence and beyond.