America, Empire of Liberty
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds
America, Empire of Liberty - 100 Percent American
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. America wrestles with the impact that its diverse population will bring.
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America, Empire of Liberty - 1968 - Paralysis of a President
Domestic tensions and the war in Vietnam throw the Johnson administration into a tailspin, opening the door for radical movements and a conservative backlash.
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America, Empire of Liberty - A Christian Republic?
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. Religious revivals transform American society in the early 19th century.
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America, Empire of Liberty - A Constitutional Abortion
Series charting the history of America. In 1973 the Supreme Court determines a framework for legal abortion, marking out a fault line in American politics for years to come.
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America, Empire of Liberty - A Hell of A War
Written and presented by David Reynolds. Segregation among the troops, the death of FDR and the atomic bomb.
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America, Empire of Liberty - A House Divided
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The anguished debate about the place of slavery in the 'land of liberty' reaches a critical point.
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America, Empire of Liberty - A New Nation
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The Battle of Gettysburg.
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America, Empire of Liberty - 'A New World Order'?
A swift victory in Iraq points to a new international consensus, but the failure to remove Saddam Hussein from power sows the seeds of future conflict.
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America, Empire of Liberty - A War for the Survival of Democracy
Series charting the history of America. The fight to keep America neutral and at peace while arming the allies.
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America, Empire of Liberty - A World Half-Slave, Half-Free
Series charting the history of America. Truman and Stalin square off over the Berlin blockade and the Soviet Union tests a nuclear bomb.
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America, Empire of Liberty - A World Safe for Democracy
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. America enters the war in Europe and accepts female suffrage at home.
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America, Empire of Liberty - America in Retreat?
Watergate, Vietnam and an economy sinking under the weight of the oil crisis drain American vitality and set the stage for a conservative re-emergence.
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America, Empire of Liberty - 'America is Under Attack'
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The era of relative peace following the Cold War comes to a violent end on September 11, 2001.
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America, Empire of Liberty - 'And We Shall Overcome'
Activists confront segregationists in the south and President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act after years of protests and political pressure.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Awakenings and Nightmares
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. Religious revivals challenge the authority of the formal hierarchical churches.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Big Business
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The rise of business tycoons such as Andrew Carnegie, JD Rockefeller and JP Morgan.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Black Power
By David Reynolds. Despite the gains of the civil rights movement, African-American frustration at the slow pace of change results in riots and the emergence of militant leaders.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Borderlands of the Spanish Superpower
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The lure of gold and silver attracted Spanish colonists from Central and South America.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Columbus: Bearer of Death
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The first European explorers brought fatal diseases which reduced the numbers of native Americans.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Cuba - That Four Letter Word
By David Reynolds. A US-backed invasion of Cuba fails but President Kennedy succeeds in preventing the USSR from placing missiles there.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Dead States, New Birth
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The North attempts to force change upon the South.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Declaring Independence
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The Declaration of Independence is drafted. Its principal author is Thomas Jefferson.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Defended to Death
By David Reynolds. In the 1950s the country enters a period of unprecedented prosperity, despite the growing threat of nuclear war.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Faith and Freedom in New England
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The Puritan founders of New England sowed the seeds of modern democracy.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Floundering into War
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the decision to go to war.
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America, Empire of Liberty - For Jackson and Democracy
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. For Jackson and Democracy. The growth of democracy and political parties in America.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Forever Free
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Founding A Capital
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The fierce bargaining between north and south over where to locate the country's capital.
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America, Empire of Liberty - From Boom to Bust
Series charting the history of America. The story of the Wall Street Crash, the Great Depression and the failure of Herbert Hoover.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Frontier Values
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The government sells off vast tracts of land and thousands of people migrate westward.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Fun and God
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The rise of the leisure, baseball and the power of religion.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Gold, God and the Little Giant
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. Gold, God and the Little Giant. The gold rush and a compromise on the issue of slavery.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Huddled Masses, Savage Hordes
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The impact of mass immigration on American politics and culture.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Iraq and the 'Axis of Evil'
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The September 11 attacks propel President Bush and America in to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Jefferson's Western Empire
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The settlement of America's vast interior.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Keeping Faith
Evangelical Christian and Washington outsider Jimmy Carter is elected president, but his liberal values doom him in the face of the right-wing surge of the Reagan revolution.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Korea - The Cold War Turns Hot
The US army clashes with Chinese and Soviet-backed forces in Korea, while Senator Joseph McCarthy stokes up fears of communist spies back in America.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Let Us Conquer Space
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The building of the Erie Canal and the railway boom.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Lost Civilisations
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. Who were America's first inhabitants?
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America, Empire of Liberty - Made in America
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. Industrial growth and the arrival of the railways.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Making the Republic Work
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. George Washington is inaugurated as the country's first President; the Bill of Rights is ratified.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Multiculturalism or Disintegration?
By David Reynolds. America grapples with new racial realities as new waves of immigration from Latin America change the country's ethnic makeup.
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America, Empire of Liberty - New Deal
Series charting the history of America. How Franklin D Roosevelt got America working again.
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America, Empire of Liberty - New France Astride America's Heartland
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The French moved from the north to the south, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi.
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America, Empire of Liberty - New South, Old Ways
Written and presented by David Reynolds. The birth of segregation.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Paddies, Papists and Demon Drink
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. Irish immigrants flock to America, where they are not always welcome.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Politics and Progress
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. How politics took hold of the cities, for good and for ill.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Putting God Back into Politics
Series charting the history of America. Evangelical Christians get involved in public life to fight what they see as the liberal excesses of the 1960s and 70s.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Reagan and the 'Evil Empire'
President Reagan makes progress with a new Cold War strategy, combining tough anti-communist talk with a willingness to negotiate over nuclear arms.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Red or Dead?
How the Second World War alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union hardened into the Cold War.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Remember the Ladies
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. Remember the Ladies. The role of women in building the new Republic.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Reunion but not Reconstruction
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. Former slaves enjoy a brief period of political equality in the South.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Roosevelt and Reform
How Theodore Roosevelt came to power and his battle to bring big business to heel.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Slaves, Masters and the Slave Power
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. Northerners fear the dominance of the slave-owning south.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Sole Superpower, Edgy Americans
President Clinton presides over a grubby and divisive period in the political world, but at the same time new technology bolsters the American economy.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Southern Planters and Black Slaves
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The English settled in Virginia and Maryland. Tobacco became important and slaves were introduced.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Taxes, Tea and Rights
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. Colonists throw tea into Boston Harbour as a protest against a tax imposed by the British.
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America, Empire of Liberty - 'Tear Down This Wall'
The first President Bush responds pragmatically to the events of 1989, when the Berlin Wall falls and the Chinese government cracks down on student protesters in Tiananmen Square.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Acting President
Ronald Reagan, known more for his speechmaking than his work habits, turns his message of economic freedom and small government into resounding electoral victories.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Arsenic of Mexico
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. America and Mexico fight over territory in Texas, New Mexico and California.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Back of the Bus
By David Reynolds. The US Supreme Court orders schools to become racially mixed and Martin Luther King emerges as a civil rights leader.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Battle for Empire
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. North America becomes part of the conflict between Britain and France.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Cities - America's Pride and Shame
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The cities illustrate both sides of America: wealth and opportunity side by side with slum poverty.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Farmers and Workers Revolt
The rise of unionisation and strikes across America. Will socialism take off?
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Indian Trail of Tears
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. Indian tribes are forced to either assimilate or move west of the Mississippi.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Information Revolution
The personal computer breaks into the mainstream, demonstrating the flexibility and ingenuity of the American economy.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Jazz Age Hits Main Street
How a surfeit of music, sex and freedom ushered in the Prohibition and fundamental religious belief.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Killers Take Command
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The leading men on either side of the battle lines: Robert E Lee and Ulysses S Grant.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Lost Peace
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The battle to form a fair peace and create the League of Nations.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Middle Colonies and the Melting Pot
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. Dutch settlers in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey pioneered a spirit of religious tolerance.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Ninety-Day War
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The start of the Civil War: a fight for Southern independence and the end of slavery.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Passing of the Dead
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The end of the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Second War of Independence
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The Second War of Independence. America declares war on Britain and Washington burns.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The 'Silent Majority' Finds Its Voice
Conservative reaction to the civil rights and women's liberation movements galvanises America's political system.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Suburban Republic
By David Reynolds. After the war, Americans turn their attentions back home, building homes and highways and creating suburbs.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Taste of Empire
By David Reynolds. America's expansion into Cuba and the Philippines and the impact it had at home.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The 'War on Poverty'
By David Reynolds. Lyndon Johnson seizes the political moment after the assassination of President Kennedy to make sweeping reforms to America's healthcare and education programmes.
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America, Empire of Liberty - The Wild West
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. How the West was finally settled and then turned into a myth by the American people.
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America, Empire of Liberty - 'To Form a More Perfect Union'
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The Founding Fathers form a federal government under a new constitution.
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America, Empire of Liberty - 'To Shape an Uncertain Destiny'
Economic issues overshadow foreign conflicts as change once again transforms American politics during the 2008 presidential election.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Too Proud to Fight
The sinking of the Lusitania and Woodrow Wilson's fight to keep America out of the First World War.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Victims of Liberty
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. Indian resistance and an increased demand for slave labour by the new territories in the west.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Vietnam - 'Peace With Honour'?
By David Reynolds. America wakes up to its involvement in south east Asia and Nixon pulls out the troops as public sentiment turns sour.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Vietnam - The Battleground of Freedom
The threat of communism causes successive American leaders to become embroiled in a disastrous foreign conflict.
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America, Empire of Liberty - War and Memory
How the Civil War became etched on the American consciousness for generations to come.
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America, Empire of Liberty - War and Terror
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. America becomes involved as Britain and France battle for global empire.
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America, Empire of Liberty - War behind the Battle Lines
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The burning of Atlanta.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Watergate and the Imperial Presidency
Series charting the history of America. Paranoia and arrogance in the White House lead to the downfall of President Nixon.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Winning Independence
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. The battles against the British.
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America, Empire of Liberty - Women's Liberation
By David Reynolds. American women push back against sexism, demanding career opportunities and access to birth control.
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