Ameri

The courses

American History, in Eight Chapters.

8 courses, 40 modules and 161 short lessons, in chronological order, from the first colonies to the end of the twentieth century.

  1. Course 1 · 1607 to 1763

    Colonial America

    English settlers crossed an ocean to a continent that was already home to many nations. Over a century and a half, thirteen colonies took root, learned to govern themselves and, after a long war with France, began to wonder who should rule them.

    6 modules · 24 lessons

  2. Course 2 · 1765 to 1783

    The American Revolution

    A dispute over taxes became a fight over who gets to rule. In little more than a decade, the colonies declared independence, held together through a long war and won a new nation at the Treaty of Paris.

    4 modules · 16 lessons

  3. Course 3 · 1787 to 1849

    A New Nation

    The first government failed, so delegates wrote another. Then a growing country doubled in size, argued over its own future and pushed west toward the Pacific.

    5 modules · 20 lessons

  4. Course 4 · 1850s to 1877

    Civil War and Reconstruction

    Slavery pulled the North and South apart until the country went to war with itself. When the fighting ended, the nation had to decide what freedom would mean, and how to bring a divided people back together.

    5 modules · 20 lessons

  5. Course 5 · 1869 to 1914

    A Rising Power

    Railroads tied the country together, steel and oil built fortunes, and millions of immigrants arrived to work in the new cities. By the early 1900s the United States was acting like a power with interests far beyond its shores.

    5 modules · 21 lessons

  6. Course 6 · 1917 to 1945

    World Wars and the Great Depression

    Two world wars bracketed a boom and the worst economic crisis in the nation's history. Americans endured hardship, rallied behind a common cause and came out of it as a leading world power.

    6 modules · 24 lessons

  7. Course 7 · 1945 to 1974

    Cold War America

    For decades the United States and the Soviet Union competed without fighting each other directly. At the same time, Americans built suburbs, reached the Moon, argued over Vietnam and fought for civil rights.

    6 modules · 24 lessons

  8. Course 8 · 1980 to 2000

    America at the End of the Millennium

    The Cold War ended, the Soviet Union dissolved and the United States stood alone as the leading power. Meanwhile, computers and the web began to change how everyone worked, shopped and talked.

    3 modules · 12 lessons

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