US History

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The Columbian Exchange

1492 - 1845

Spanish Colonization

1492 - 1848

History of Drugs in America

1492 - 2008

1607 - 1677

History of American Fashion

1607 - 2008

Blues Music History

1619 - 2009

New England Puritans & Pilgrims

1620 - 1676

Colonial Virginia

1676 - 1776

Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

1687 - 1787

History of American Journalism

1690 - 2008

The French & Indian War

1753 - 1771

The American Revolution

1763 - 1783

Constitutional Convention

1783 - 1792

Native American History

1783 - 1890

The Federalists

1787 - 1800

Early American Immigration

1787 - 1882

Louisiana Purchase and Lewis & Clark

1791 - 1806

The Jefferson Presidency

1800 - 1809

The Market Revolution

1811 - 1842

The War of 1812

1812 - 1815

Antebellum Period

1814 - 1861

Manifest Destiny & Mexican-American War

1819 - 1848

Causes of the Civil War

1820 - 1861

The Jackson Era

1825 - 1838

1829 - 1865

Women's Movements

1835 - 1982

California Gold Rush

1846 - 1855

1860 - 1865

Transcontinental Railroad

1862 - 1869

1862 - 1916

1863 - 1877

1868 - 1901

History of Labor Unions

1869 - 2009

1870 - 1967

Age of Great Inventions

1880 - 1900

Ellis Island Era Immigration

1882 - 1954

Muckrakers & Reformers

1887 - 1920

Progressive Era Politics

1887 - 1923

The Spanish-American War

1893 - 1913

The War on Terror

1901 - 2011

1914 - 1919

1918 - 1929

1920 - 2008

Country Music History

1923 - 2009

The Great Depression

1929 - 1941

1932 - 1938

1939 - 1945

World War II: Home Front

1940 - 1945

Causes of the Cold War

1944 - 1960

McCarthyism & Red Scare

1945 - 1955

Postwar Suburbia

1945 - 1970

History of Rock & Roll

1949 - 2008

1950 - 1953

1950 - 1960

Civil Rights Movement: Desegregation

1954 - 1963

1960 - 1972

The Vietnam War

1960 - 1975

Civil Rights Movement: "Black Power" Era

1963 - 1978

1980 - 1990