American History
From Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium
The word history comes from the Greek word historía which means "to learn or know by inquiry." In the pieces that follow, we encourage you to probe, dispute, dig deeper — inquire. History is not static. It's fluid. It changes and grows and becomes richer and more complex when any individual interacts with it.
Knowledge of history is empowering. An event is but the furthest ripple of an ever-expanding wave that may have started eddying outward hundreds of years ago. One who "sees" history is able to harness the power of that wave's entire journey.
Finally, the best history has at its foundation a story. A printer challenges a King and so is laid the foundation of the first amendment; a New Jersey miner finds gold in California and sets off a torrent of movement westward; a woman going home from work does not relinquish her seat and a Civil Rights movement explodes.
These stories all help to ask the question, "What is an American?" You'll help to answer that question.
- Native American Society on the Eve of British Colonization
- Britain in the New World
- The New England Colonies
- The Middle Colonies
- The Southern Colonies
- African Americans in the British New World
- The Beginnings of Revolutionary Thinking
- America's Place in the Global Struggle
- The Events Leading to Independence
- E Pluribus Unum
- The American Revolution
- Societal Impacts of the American Revolution
- When Does the Revolution End?
- The Declaration of Independence and Its Legacy
- The War Experience: Soldiers, Officers, and Civilians
- The Loyalists
- Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Slavery
- Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Women
- Revolutionary Limits: Native Americans
- Revolutionary Achievement: Yeomen and Artisans
- The Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- Making Rules
- Drafting the Constitution
- Ratifying the Constitution
- George Washington
- Unsettled Domestic Issues
- Politics in Transition: Public Conflict in the 1790s
- Jeffersonian America: A Second Revolution?
- The Expanding Republic and the War of 1812
- Social Change and National Development
- Politics and the New Nation
- The Age of Jackson
- The Rise of American Industry
- An Explosion of New Thought
- The Peculiar Institution
- Abolitionist Sentiment Grows
- Manifest Destiny
- An Uneasy Peace
- "Bloody Kansas"
- From Uneasy Peace to Bitter Conflict
- A House Divided
- The War Behind the Lines
- Reconstruction
- The Gilded Age
- Organized Labor
- From the Countryside to the City
- New Dimensions in Everyday Life
- Closing the Frontier
- Western Folkways
- Progressivism Sweeps the Nation
- Progressives in the White House
- Seeking Empire
- America in the First World War
- The Decade That Roared
- Old Values vs. New Values
- The Great Depression
- The New Deal
- The Road to Pearl Harbor
- America in the Second World War
- Postwar Challenges
- The 1950s: Happy Days
- A New Civil Rights Movement
- The Vietnam War
- Politics from Camelot to Watergate
- Shaping a New America
- A Time of Malaise
- The Reagan Years
- Toward a New Millennium
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