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American history curriculum.
American history curriculum.



Stories of colonial times to the 1990s.

=== Colonial Age ===
Core Lessons:


Expanded Pages:<div style="column-count:3">
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Albion's_Seed Albion's Seed]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Tobacco_Brides Tobacco Brides]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Natives Natives]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Founding_Fathers Founding Fathers]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Eli_Whitney_and_the_Cotton_Gin Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Revolutionary_War Revolutionary War]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Early_Explorers Early Explorers]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Yeomanry Yeomanry]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Founding_of_Colleges Founding of Colleges]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Tidewater Tidewater]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Five_Civilized_Tribes The Five Civilized Tribes]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Empire_of_Liberty The Empire of Liberty]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Plantations The Plantations]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Universalists Universalists]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/index.php?title=Index.php%3Ftitle%3DThe_Navy_&_The_Barbary_Wars=&action=edit&redlink=1 The Navy & The Barbary Wars]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Mathers The Mathers]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/George_Washington George Washington]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Thomas_Jefferson Thomas Jefferson]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Alexander_Hamilton Alexander Hamilton]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Powhatan_and_Pocahontas Powhatan and Pocahontas]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/William_Penn William Penn]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Aaron_Burr Aaron Burr]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Thomas_Hutchinson Thomas Hutchinson]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Lyman_Beecher Lyman Beecher]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Baron_von_Steuben Baron von Steuben]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Lafayette Lafayette]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Pulaski Pulaski]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Nathan_Hale Nathan Hale]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Jonathan_Edwards Jonathan Edwards]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Timothy_Dwight Timothy Dwight]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Metacomet Metacomet]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/James_Wilson James Wilson]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/John_Winthrop John Winthrop]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/William_Johnson,_the_top_of_White_Savage William Johnson, the White Savage]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Jean_Nicolet Jean Nicolet]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Henry_Ware_and_the_Unitarians Henry Ware and the Unitarians]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Haym_Salomon Haym Salomon]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Anne_Bailey Anne Bailey]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Arthur_St._Clair Arthur St. Clair]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Samuel_Hopkins Samuel Hopkins]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Eleazar_Wheelock Eleazar Wheelock]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/James_Wilkinson James Wilkinson]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Benjamin_Rush Benjamin Rush]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Shays'_Rebellion Shays' Rebellion]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Whiskey_Rebellion The Whiskey Rebellion]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Sullivan_Expedition The Sullivan Expedition]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Trumbull Trumbull]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Gilbert_Stuart Gilbert Stuart]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Manumission Manumission]

[https://commonknowledge.wiki/John_Paul_Jones John Paul Jones]
</div>

=== Romantic Age ===
Core Lessons:


Expanded Pages:<div style="column-count:3">
# Lewis & Clark
# War of 1812
# The Whig Party
# Manifest Destiny
# Trail of Tears
# Louisiana Purchase
# Mexican American War
# Second Great Awakening
# Transcendentalists
# Utopians
# Philadelphia Bible Riots
# Nativism & Know-Nothings
# Mass Production, American System of Manufactures
# Mormonism
# The Burned Over District
# The Cult of Domesticity
# Steamboats
# Individualism
# The Gold Rush
# 48ers
# Slavocracy
# The Civil War
# Abolitionists
# The Wide Awakes
# The Pig War
# Boston Brahmin
# The Benevolent Empire
# Bureau of Indian Affairs
# Henry Clay
# John Jacob Astor
# Johnny Appleseed
# Wyatt Earp
# John Smith
# Brigham Young
# P.T. Barnum
# Mountain Men
# Nathaniel Taylor
# John Brown Smith & Ellen Goodell
# Erie Canal
# Levi Strauss
</div>

=== Gilded & Progressive Age ===
Core Lessons:


Expanded Pages:<div style="column-count:3">
# Miraculous Inventions
# American Amusements
# Rain Follows the Plow
# New Money, Philanthropy, Robber Barons
# Manifest Destiny
# American empire
# German Assimilation
# Alaska Gold Rush
# Railroads
# Nature's Metropolis
# Indian Wars
# Boomtowns
# Frontier Thesis
# Progressive Society
# Seward's Folly
# Barnum & Bailey's
# Chicago World's Fair
# Victoria Woodhull & Free Love
# Spiritualism
# Eugenics
# Hydraulic Society
# Range Wars
# The Buffalo
# Bimetallism
# Ellis Island
# East Coast Ethnic Enclaves
# Cowboys
# Miners
# Company Towns
# Child Labor
# Panning for Gold
# Chief Joseph
# Bicycles
# Taking Hawaii
# Woodrow Wilson
# The Great War
# Oneida Community
# Ford's Theatre
# Benjamin Tillman
# J.P. Morgan
# Mosquito Fleets
# Picture Brides
# Forbes
# Patrick Kennedy
# John D. Rockefeller
# Andrew Carnegie
# Vanderbilts
# Custer and the Great Sioux War
# General Philip Sheridan
# Geronimo
# Chicago Fire
# Daniel Burnham
# Jesse James
# The Wright Brothers
# Boeing
# Houdini
# Frederick Russell Burnham
# Mary Baker Edy
# Dow Chemical
# The Fence Cutters War
# The Los Angeles Times bombing
# Locusts of 1875
# The Nature Fakers
# Miner's War
# Seattle Fire
# Coca Cola
# Gibson Girls
</div>

=== Jazz Age ===
Core Lessons:


Expanded Pages:<div style="column-count:3">
# Big Bosses
# The Depression
# Prohibition
# Flappers
# Cigarettes
# Marketing
# The New Deal
# Art Deco
# Hillbillies
# War Economy
# Wartime Propaganda
# Pearl Harbor
# D-Day
# Family Planning
# Radio
# American Songbook & Tin Pan Alley
# Lend Lease Agreement
# The Great Migration
# Douglas MacArthur
# FDR
# Comstock Laws
# Einstein
# Patton
# Eisenhower
# Lindbergh
# Howard Hughes
# Al Capone
# John Herbert Dillinger
# Amelia Earhart
# Reinhold Niebuhr
# Ezra Pound
# Babe Ruth
# Jackie Robinson
# Joe DiMaggio
# William Laurence
# Pearl Buck
# Alice Bailey
# William Bullitt Jr.
# George Balanchine
# Will Geer
# Joe Louis
# Guy Ballard
# Sacco and Vanzetti
# The Ponzi Scheme
# The Scopes Monkey Trial
# The St. Valentine's Massacre
# The Lindbergh Kidnapping
# Anthony Bimba
# Radium Girls
# Dust Bowl Photography
# Grand Coulee Dam
# Hoover Dam
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Alpha_Bravo_Charlie_-_Phonetic_Alphabets Alpha Bravo Charlie - Phonetic Alphabets]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Oppenheimer Oppenheimer]
</div>

=== Atomic Age ===
Core Lessons:


Expanded Pages:

<div style="column-count:3">
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Beatniks Beatniks]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Space_Race Space Race]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Cold_War Cold War]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Car_Culture Car Culture]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Suburbia Suburbia]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/White_Flight White Flight]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_American_Teenager The American Teenager]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Rock_n_Roll Rock n Roll]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Military_Industrial_Complex The Military Industrial Complex]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Deep_State The Deep State]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/American_Hegemony American Hegemony]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Baby_Boom The Baby Boom]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Civil_Rights_Movement The Civil Rights Movement]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Great_Society The Great Society]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Demobilization Demobilization]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Post_Industrialism Post Industrialism]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Brown_V_Board Brown V Board]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Suez_Crisis Suez Crisis]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Bay_of_Pigs Bay of Pigs]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis Cuban Missile Crisis]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Television Television]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/TV_Dinners TV Dinners]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Tiki_lounge Tiki lounge]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/British_Invasion British Invasion]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Coeds Coeds]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Going_Steady Going Steady]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/index.php?title=James_Dean_&_Blue_jeans=&action=edit&redlink=1 James Dean & Blue jeans]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Kenneth_Cooper's_Aerobic_Exercise Kenneth Cooper's Aerobic Exercise]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Sitcoms Sitcoms]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Affirmative_Action Affirmative Action]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Agent_Orange Agent Orange]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/McNamara's_Folly McNamara's Folly]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Truman_Doctrine Truman Doctrine]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Area_Redevelopment_Administration Area Redevelopment Administration]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Pill The Pill]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Highway The Highway]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Dulles_Brothers The Dulles Brothers]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/J._Edgard_Hoover J. Edgard Hoover]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Buzz_Aldrin Buzz Aldrin]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Jack_Parsons Jack Parsons]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Alsop_Brothers The Alsop Brothers]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Klaus_Fuchs Klaus Fuchs]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/John_van_Neumann John van Neumann]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Billy_Graham Billy Graham]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Malcolm_X Malcolm X]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Martin_Luther_King Martin Luther King]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Hugh_Hefner Hugh Hefner]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/James_J._Angleton James J. Angleton]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Emmett_Till Emmett Till]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Lolita_Lebr%C3%B3n Lolita Lebrón]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Johnny_Carson Johnny Carson]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Rosenberg_Trials Rosenberg Trials]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Joseph_McCarthy Joseph McCarthy]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Roy_Cohn Roy Cohn]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Gouzenko_Affair Gouzenko Affair]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Elvis Elvis]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Bob_Dylan Bob Dylan]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Saul_Alinsky Saul Alinsky]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Wolfman_Jack Wolfman Jack]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/David_Dubinsky David Dubinsky]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Thomas_Hayden Thomas Hayden]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Salvatore_Giancana Salvatore Giancana]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Ralph_David_Abernathy Ralph David Abernathy]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Richard_Cushing Richard Cushing]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/index.php?title=McGovern_&_Eagleton=&action=edit&redlink=1 McGovern & Eagleton]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Barry_Goldwater Barry Goldwater]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Medgar_Wiley_Evers Medgar Wiley Evers]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Lenny_Bruce Lenny Bruce]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Alger_Hiss Alger Hiss]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/index.php?title=Fulton_Sheen_&_Francis_Spellman=&action=edit&redlink=1 Fulton Sheen & Francis Spellman]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Ella_Baker Ella Baker]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Muhammad_Ali Muhammad Ali]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Sugar_Ray_Robinson Sugar Ray Robinson]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/John_Birch_Society John Birch Society]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Fermilab Fermilab]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Black_Panther_Party The Black Panther Party]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/NATO NATO]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Hell's_Angels Hell's Angels]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Ed_Sullivan_Show Ed Sullivan Show]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/RAND_Corporation RAND Corporation]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Woodwards The Woodwards]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/FBI FBI]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Little_Rock Little Rock]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c Thích Quảng Đức]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_1958_Lebanon_Crisis The 1958 Lebanon Crisis]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Freedom_Train The Freedom Train]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/U-2_Spy_Plane U-2 Spy Plane]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_KKK The KKK]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Freedom_Summer Freedom Summer]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Korean_War The Korean War]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Disneyland Disneyland]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/EPCOT EPCOT]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Oroville_Dam Oroville Dam]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Dworshak_Dam Dworshak Dam]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Norman_Rockwell Norman Rockwell]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Xerox Xerox]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Xerox Xerox]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Xerox Xerox]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Xerox Xerox]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Xerox Xerox]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Xerox Xerox]


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=== Postmodern Age ===
Core Lessons:


Expanded Pages:<div style="column-count:3">
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Hippies Hippies]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Personal_Computer The Personal Computer]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Ted_Kaczynski Ted Kaczynski]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Serial_Killers Serial Killers]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Rousas_Rushdoony Rousas Rushdoony]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Disparate_Impact Disparate Impact]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Ecology Ecology]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Abortion Abortion]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Cultural_Revolution The Cultural Revolution]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Bobos The Bobos]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_End_of_History The End of History]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Sunbelt The Sunbelt]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Bush_Family The Bush Family]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Clintons The Clintons]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Times_of_Crime Times of Crime]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Saturday_Night_Fever Saturday Night Fever]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/index.php?title=Index.php%3Ftitle%3DL._Ron_Hubbard_&_Scientology=&action=edit&redlink=1 L. Ron Hubbard & Scientology]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Madonna Madonna]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Jonestown Jonestown]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Claude_Dallas Claude Dallas]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Ram_Dass Ram Dass]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/USAID USAID]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/NGOs NGOs]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/John_Paul_Getty_III John Paul Getty III]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Challenger_Explosion Challenger Explosion]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/The_Kent_State_Shooting The Kent State Shooting]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Clarence_Thomas Clarence Thomas]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/index.php?title=Index.php%3Ftitle%3DHarvey_Milk_&_Daniel_James_White=&action=edit&redlink=1 Harvey Milk & Daniel James White]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Nixon_Goes_To_China Nixon Goes To China]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/CIA-backed_Coups CIA-backed Coups]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Watergate Watergate]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Desegregations Desegregations]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa Jimmy Hoffa]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Closing_Alcatraz Closing Alcatraz]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Noam_Chomsky Noam Chomsky]
# [https://commonknowledge.wiki/Paul_Simon Paul Simon]
# Phyllis Schlafly
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