This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces Shays's Rebellion, which revealed the weakness of the federal government—which lacked the power to deploy troops.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces "muckrakers," the investigative journalists of the early 20th century so-called because they unearthed corruption in corporate America.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, at the turn of the 20th century, progressive reformers turned their attention to the nearly two million children working, often in unhealthy or dangerous work environments.

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Historian Josh Brown of the American Social History Project examines a cartoon from Puck, the famous satirical weekly of the Gilded Age, which describes the U.S. Senate as a club for millionaires.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the nativism of the 1840s and 1850s—the fear that the flood of Irish and German immigration would result in immigrants out-breeding, out-voting, and out-working native-born Americans.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes a new tax on liquor which provoked many of the frontiersman in western Pennsylvania to form the Whiskey Rebellion. President George Washington responded by sending troops to quell the uprising.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the the Northwest Ordinance, adopted by Congress in 1787, which called for new states to be developed in the Ohio region.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Dutch settlement in New Amsterdam (now New York City) to establish a stronghold in the fur trade.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the African-American push for workplace equality as the economy changed after World War II. Their efforts in the post-war years would spark the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how temporary workers from Mexico filled huge labor shortages created by World War II and became part of the continuing debate about immigration.

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