American History

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:

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 1812The 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

Model T

Wright Brothers

Woodrow Wilson & The Great War

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:

The Great Depression

Isolationism

Pearl Harbor

Pacific War Stories

European War Stories

The Manhattan Project

Expanded Pages:

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

Atomic Age

Core Lessons:

Cold War Paranoias

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

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