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American history curriculum.

It is designed to be completed in either one year or two years, with further narratives and readings for enthusiasts.


Colonial Age

Core Lessons:

The New World

Jamestown Colony

The Pilgrims

The 13 Colonies

French and Indian War

The Founding Fathers

The Revolutionary War

The Constitution

Expanded Pages:

  1. Albion's Seed
  2. Tobacco Brides
  3. Natives
  4. Founding Fathers
  5. Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
  6. Revolutionary War
  7. Early Explorers
  8. Yeomanry
  9. Founding of Colleges
  10. Tidewater
  11. The Five Civilized Tribes
  12. The Empire of Liberty
  13. The Plantations
  14. Universalists
  15. The Navy & The Barbary Wars
  16. The Mathers
  17. George Washington
  18. Thomas Jefferson
  19. Alexander Hamilton
  20. Powhatan and Pocahontas
  21. William Penn
  22. Aaron Burr
  23. Thomas Hutchinson
  24. Lyman Beecher
  25. Baron von Steuben
  26. Lafayette
  27. Pulaski
  28. Nathan Hale
  29. Jonathan Edwards
  30. Timothy Dwight
  31. Metacomet
  32. James Wilson
  33. John Winthrop
  34. William Johnson, the White Savage
  35. Jean Nicolet
  36. Henry Ware and the Unitarians
  37. Haym Salomon
  38. Anne Bailey
  39. Arthur St. Clair
  40. Samuel Hopkins
  41. Eleazar Wheelock
  42. James Wilkinson
  43. Benjamin Rush
  44. Shays' Rebellion
  45. The Whiskey Rebellion
  46. The Sullivan Expedition
  47. Trumbull
  48. Gilbert Stuart
  49. Manumission

John Paul Jones


Romantic Age

Core Lessons:

War of 1812

Monroe Doctrine

Jeffersonian Republicanism, Jacksonian Democracy

The Mexican American War

Abolitionists, John Brown

Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, Grant, Sherman, Robert E. Lee

The War Between the States: First Manassas (Bull Run), Ironclads, Shiloh (Pittsburgh Landing), Antietam (Sharpsburg), Chancellorsville, Siege of Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Atlanta, Siege of Petersburg, March To the Sea


Expanded Pages:

  1. Lewis & Clark
  2. War of 1812
  3. The Whig Party
  4. Manifest Destiny
  5. Trail of Tears
  6. Louisiana Purchase
  8. Second Great Awakening
  9. Transcendentalists
  10. Utopians
  11. Philadelphia Bible Riots
  12. Nativism & Know-Nothings
  13. Mass Production, American System of Manufactures
  14. Mormonism
  15. The Burned Over District
  16. The Cult of Domesticity
  17. Steamboats
  18. Individualism
  19. The Gold Rush
  20. 48ers
  21. Slavocracy
  22. The Civil War
  23. Abolitionists
  24. The Wide Awakes
  25. The Pig War
  26. Boston Brahmin
  27. The Benevolent Empire
  28. Bureau of Indian Affairs
  29. Henry Clay
  30. John Jacob Astor
  31. Johnny Appleseed
  32. Wyatt Earp
  33. John Smith
  34. Brigham Young
  35. P.T. Barnum
  36. Mountain Men
  37. Nathaniel Taylor
  38. John Brown Smith & Ellen Goodell
  39. Erie Canal
  40. Levi Strauss

Gilded & Progressive Age

Core Lessons:

Manifest Destiny & Transcontinental Railroad

American Industry

Social Darwinism & Progressivism

Model T

Wright Brothers

Woodrow Wilson & The Great War, The Treaty of Versailles

Ellis Islanders


Expanded Pages:

  1. Miraculous Inventions
  2. American Amusements
  3. Rain Follows the Plow
  4. New Money, Philanthropy, Robber Barons
  5. Manifest Destiny
  6. American empire
  7. German Assimilation
  8. Alaska Gold Rush
  9. Railroads
  10. Nature's Metropolis
  11. Indian Wars
  12. Boomtowns
  13. Frontier Thesis
  14. Progressive Society
  15. Seward's Folly
  16. Barnum & Bailey's
  17. Chicago World's Fair
  18. Victoria Woodhull & Free Love
  19. Spiritualism
  20. Eugenics
  21. Hydraulic Society
  22. Range Wars
  23. The Buffalo
  24. Bimetallism
  25. Ellis Island
  26. East Coast Ethnic Enclaves
  27. Cowboys
  28. Miners
  29. Company Towns
  30. Child Labor
  31. Panning for Gold
  32. Chief Joseph
  33. Bicycles
  34. Taking Hawaii
  35. Woodrow Wilson
  36. The Great War
  37. Oneida Community
  38. Ford's Theatre
  39. Benjamin Tillman
  40. J.P. Morgan
  41. Mosquito Fleets
  42. Picture Brides
  43. Forbes
  44. Patrick Kennedy
  45. John D. Rockefeller
  46. Andrew Carnegie
  47. Vanderbilts
  48. Custer and the Great Sioux War
  49. General Philip Sheridan
  50. Geronimo
  51. Chicago Fire
  52. Daniel Burnham
  53. Jesse James
  54. The Wright Brothers
  55. Boeing
  56. Houdini
  57. Frederick Russell Burnham
  58. Mary Baker Edy
  59. Dow Chemical
  60. The Fence Cutters War
  61. The Los Angeles Times bombing
  62. Locusts of 1875
  63. The Nature Fakers
  64. Miner's War
  65. Seattle Fire
  66. Coca Cola
  67. Gibson Girls

Jazz Age

Core Lessons:

Socialism, labor, and Comintern

Prohibition and the Mafia

The Great Depression

Isolationism

Pearl Harbor

FDR

Douglas MacArthur

Pacific War Stories

European War Stories

D-Day

The Manhattan Project

Expanded Pages:

  1. Big Bosses
  2. Race to the Sky
  3. The Depression
  4. Prohibition
  5. Flappers
  6. Cigarettes
  7. Marketing
  8. The New Deal
  9. Art Deco
  10. Hillbillies
  11. War Economy
  12. Wartime Propaganda
  13. Pearl Harbor
  14. D-Day
  15. Family Planning
  16. Radio
  17. American Songbook & Tin Pan Alley
  18. Lend Lease Agreement
  19. The Great Migration
  20. Comstock Laws
  21. Einstein
  22. Patton
  23. Eisenhower
  24. Lindbergh
  25. Howard Hughes
  26. Al Capone
  27. John Herbert Dillinger
  28. Amelia Earhart
  29. Reinhold Niebuhr
  30. Ezra Pound
  31. Babe Ruth
  32. Jackie Robinson
  33. Joe DiMaggio
  34. William Laurence
  35. Pearl Buck
  36. Alice Bailey
  37. William Bullitt Jr.
  38. George Balanchine
  39. Will Geer
  40. Joe Louis
  41. Guy Ballard
  42. Sacco and Vanzetti
  43. The Ponzi Scheme
  44. The Scopes Monkey Trial
  45. The St. Valentine's Massacre
  46. The Lindbergh Kidnapping
  47. Anthony Bimba
  48. Radium Girls
  49. Dust Bowl Photography
  50. Grand Coulee Dam
  51. Hoover Dam
  52. Alpha Bravo Charlie - Phonetic Alphabets
  53. Oppenheimer

Atomic Age

Core Lessons:

Cold War Paranoias

Korean War

Space Race

Suburbia

Rock n Roll

The Deep State

The Baby Boom

John F. Kennedy

The Civil Rights Movement

Expanded Pages:


  1. Beatniks
  3. Cold War
  4. Car Culture
  6. White Flight
  7. The American Teenager
  9. The Military Industrial Complex
  11. American Hegemony
  13. The Great Society
  14. Demobilization
  15. Post Industrialism
  16. Brown V Board
  17. Suez Crisis
  18. Bay of Pigs
  19. Cuban Missile Crisis
  20. Television
  21. TV Dinners
  22. Tiki lounge
  23. British Invasion
  24. Coeds
  25. Going Steady
  26. James Dean & Blue jeans
  27. Kenneth Cooper's Aerobic Exercise
  28. Sitcoms
  29. Affirmative Action
  30. Agent Orange
  31. McNamara's Folly
  32. Truman Doctrine
  33. Area Redevelopment Administration
  34. The Pill
  35. The Highway
  36. The Dulles Brothers
  37. J. Edgard Hoover
  38. Buzz Aldrin
  39. Jack Parsons
  40. The Alsop Brothers
  41. Lyndon B. Johnson
  42. Klaus Fuchs
  43. John van Neumann
  44. Billy Graham
  45. Malcolm X
  46. Martin Luther King
  47. Lee Harvey Oswald
  48. Hugh Hefner
  49. James J. Angleton
  50. Emmett Till
  51. Lolita Lebrón
  52. Johnny Carson
  53. Rosenberg Trials
  54. Joseph McCarthy
  55. Roy Cohn
  56. Gouzenko Affair
  57. Elvis
  58. Bob Dylan
  59. Saul Alinsky
  60. Wolfman Jack
  61. David Dubinsky
  62. Thomas Hayden
  63. Salvatore Giancana
  64. Ralph David Abernathy
  65. Richard Cushing
  66. McGovern & Eagleton
  67. Barry Goldwater
  68. Medgar Wiley Evers
  69. Lenny Bruce
  70. Alger Hiss
  71. Fulton Sheen & Francis Spellman
  72. Ella Baker
  73. Muhammad Ali
  74. Sugar Ray Robinson
  75. John Birch Society
  76. Fermilab
  77. The Black Panther Party
  78. NATO
  79. Hell's Angels
  80. Ed Sullivan Show
  81. RAND Corporation
  82. The Woodwards
  83. FBI
  84. Little Rock
  85. Thích Quảng Đức
  86. The 1958 Lebanon Crisis
  87. The Freedom Train
  88. U-2 Spy Plane
  89. The KKK
  90. Freedom Summer
  91. The Korean War
  92. Disneyland
  93. EPCOT
  94. Oroville Dam
  95. Dworshak Dam
  96. Norman Rockwell
  97. Xerox
  98. Xerox
  99. Xerox
  100. Xerox
  101. Xerox
  102. Xerox



Postmodern Age

Core Lessons:

The end of Vietnam

The Malaise

Watergate

Roe v. Wade

Reagan, the Iran Hostage crisis, the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War

Expanded Pages:

  1. Hippies
  2. The Personal Computer
  3. Ted Kaczynski
  4. Serial Killers
  5. Rousas Rushdoony
  6. Disparate Impact
  7. Ecology
  8. Abortion
  9. The Cultural Revolution
  10. The Bobos
  11. The End of History
  12. The Sunbelt
  13. The Bush Family
  14. The Clintons
  15. Times of Crime
  16. Saturday Night Fever
  17. L. Ron Hubbard & Scientology
  18. Madonna
  19. Jonestown
  20. Claude Dallas
  21. Ram Dass
  22. USAID
  23. NGOs
  24. John Paul Getty III
  25. Challenger Explosion
  26. The Kent State Shooting
  27. Clarence Thomas
  28. Harvey Milk & Daniel James White
  29. Nixon Goes To China
  30. CIA-backed Coups
  31. Watergate
  32. Desegregations
  33. Jimmy Hoffa
  34. Closing Alcatraz
  35. Noam Chomsky
  36. Paul Simon
  37. Phyllis Schlafly
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