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Professor Charles Postel reviews the lives of lawyers Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) and William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925) and their involvement as adversaries in the 1925 legal case Scopes v. State, in which a school teacher was found guilty of violating a Tennessee law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in public schools.

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Professor Charles Postel reviews the life of Thomas Paine.

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Professor David Hackett Fischer traces how definitions of the ideals of liberty and freedom have changed over the course of U.S. history, from the American Revolution to the present day. He looks particularly at visual and literary symbols that have been created to stand for these ideals.

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Professor Christopher Flannery examines the prominence of the Declaration of Independence in U.S. history and present life, the context in which it was written, and the intentions of its drafters. He includes readings from historical documents.

Professor Lucas E. Morel discusses the history of affirmative action in the U.S., looking at how it has changed from the early 1960s to the present day. He examines particularly the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court cases Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, both on affirmative action.

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Professor John Moser examines the foreign policy of Franklin D. Roosevelt, comparing and contrasting it to the policies of Woodrow Wilson.

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Professor John Moser examines Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward's establishment of the power of the federal government over that of the state governments and the implications this had for foreign policy. Moser considers the Civil War as the possible origin of U.S. nationalism.

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Professor Jeremi Suri details the life and foreign policy views of John Quincy Adams, examining how Adams merged popular nationalism with international realism.

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