| Unit I. | A World Of Their Own: The Americas To 1500 |
| Unit II. | CONTACT: Europe And America Meet, 1492-1620 |
| Unit III. | The Founding of New Societies, 1607-1763 |
| Unit IV. | What Was The American Revolution? 1760-1836 |
| Unit V. | The Ambiguous Democracy, 1800-1848 |
| Unit VI. | "Now We Are Engaged In A Great Civil War," 1848-1880 |
| Unit VII. | What, Then, Is This American? 1865-1900 |
| Unit VIII. | Waves of Reform, 1880-1921 |
| Unit IX. | Boom and Bust, 1921-1933 |
| Unit X. | The Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 |
| Unit XI. | Leader of the Free World, 1945-1975 |
| Unit XII. | A Nation in Quandary, 1975- |