US history
The United States of America is a nation with a rich history and a noble goal: government of the people, by the people, for the people. Its citizens' struggle to achieve that goal is a dramatic story stretching over hundreds of years.
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Unit 1: Worlds collide (1491–1607)
Indigenous America
Origins of European exploration
The Columbian Exchange
Unit 2: Colonial America (1607–1754)
French and Dutch colonization
Humble beginnings of English colonization
The Virginia Company and Jamestown
The New England colonies in the North
The Southern and Middle colonies
Origins of slavery in the English colonies
Developing a national identity
Unit 3: The Revolutionary Era (1754–1800)
The Seven Year's War
The American Revolution
Creating a nation
Social consequences of revolutionary ideals
Shaping a new republic
Unit 4: The Early Republic (1800–1848)
Foreign policy in the early 1800s
The Market Revolution
The age of Jackson
Developing an American identity
Developing an American culture
Reform movements
Unit 5: The Civil War Era (1844–1877)
The Mexican-American War
The Fugitive Slave Act
National crisis
The Civil War
Slavery and the Missouri Compromise ✓ Check-ins11:01
Increasing political battles over slavery in the mid-1800s ✓ Check-ins11:47
Start of the Civil War - secession and Fort Sumter ✓ Check-ins10:44
Strategy of the Civil War ✓ Check-ins11:03
Early phases of Civil War and Antietam ✓ Check-ins10:17
Significance of the battle of Antietam ✓ Check-ins7:21
The battle of Gettysburg ✓ Check-ins12:17
The Gettysburg Address | Setting and context ✓ Check-ins9:55
Photographing the Battle of Gettysburg, O'Sullivan's Harvest of Death ✓ Check-ins6:22
The Gettysburg Address | Full text and analysis ✓ Check-ins11:50
The end of the Civil War
Reconstruction
Unit 6: The Gilded Age (1865–1898)
The Gilded Age
Politics of the Gilded Age
Capitalism and labor in the Gilded Age
Jim Crow and the "New South"
The American West
Building the American West
Unit 7: The rise to world power (1890–1945)
The age of empire
The Progressive Era
The United States in World War I
Blockades, u-boats and sinking of the Lusitania ✓ Check-ins12:04
Zimmermann Telegram ✓ Check-ins4:10
United States enters World War I ✓ Check-ins7:05
World War I: Homefront ✓ Check-ins6:45
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points ✓ Check-ins16:36
Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles ✓ Check-ins10:10
More detail on the Treaty of Versailles and Germany ✓ Check-ins6:20
1920s America
The beginning of World War II
World War II
The Atomic Age
American identity
Unit 8: The Postwar Era (1945–1980)
The Cold War begins
The Korean War
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Vietnam War
Unit 9: The Modern Era (1980–present)
The new millennium
Unit 10: Surveys of history
United States history overview
Why study US history, government, and civics? ✓ Check-ins1:48
US History Overview 1: Jamestown to the Civil War ✓ Check-ins18:28
US History overview 2: Reconstruction to the Great Depression ✓ Check-ins14:23
US History overview 3: WWII to Vietnam ✓ Check-ins14:46
Appomattox and Lincoln's assassination ✓ Check-ins6:01
When Capitalism is great and not-so-great ✓ Check-ins13:48
20th century US capitalism and regulation ✓ Check-ins14:21
Unit 11: Primary documents
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