Professor David Kennedy talks about the punitive nature of the Treaty of Versailles, signed after World War I.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the delegation President Thomas Jefferson sent to France to purchase the city of New Orleans. Instead, the French government offered the entire Louisiana Territory.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the European powers continued fight for control of American territory and trade routes during King George's War. American colonists and Native Americans were drawn into the fight and helped gain territory from the French.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the major European powers' fight for control of the Old World. These conflicts were mirrored in France, Spain, and England's holdings in America where the colonists and Native Americans got drawn into the wars over trade routes and land claims.

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Professor Christopher Capozzola of MIT explains why Herbert Hoover is the real hero of World War I.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the search for a Northwest Passage, which began in earnest following Christopher Columbus's first journey to the Americas in 1492. Many Europeans hoped that a waterway existed in the Americas that would link Europe with Asia.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the situation in North American following the French and Indian War. The French no longer had holdings in the Americas; since Britain was the only remaining superpower left on the continent, the relationship between the colonists and the British grew increasingly strained.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Quebec Act, issued by British Parliament, which further agitated colonists who were still reeling from the Stamp Act.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the continuation of the American Revolution for another two years following the defeat of the British at Yorktown in 1781.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the War of 1812, which started when England tried to restrict American shipping.

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