Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies

List of the 36 Lecture Titles
1 The World before Colonial America
2 Spain's New World Empire
3 John Smith, Pocahontas, and Jamestown
4 Virginia and the Chesapeake after Smith
5 The Pilgrims and Plymouth
6 The Iroquois, the French, and the Dutch
7 The Puritans and Massachusetts
8 New England Heretics—Religious and Economic
9 The Connecticut Valley and the Pequot War
10 Sugar and Slaves—The Caribbean
11 Mercantilism and the Growth of Piracy
12 South Carolina—Rice, Cattle, and Artisans
13 New Netherland Becomes New York
14 King Philip's War in New England
15 Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
16 Santa Fe and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
17 William Penn's New World Vision
18 The New England Uprising of 1689
19 Witchcraft in New England
20 Captives and Stories of Captivity
21 The Indians' New World
22 Family Life and Labor in Colonial America
23 Smallpox, 1721—The Inoculation Controversy
24 France, Senegal, and Louisiana
26 The Atlantic Slave Trade and South Carolina
27 The New York Conspiracy of 1741
28 The Great Awakening
29 The Albany Conference of 1754
30 The Great War for Empire
31 Pontiac's Revolt against the British
32 Imperial Reform—The Sugar and Stamp Acts
33 North Carolina Regulators Seek Local Rule
34 Virginia—Patrick Henry and the West
35 Destruction of Tea and Colonial Rebellion
36 Independence and Beyond