Discovering U.S. history

Learn about colonial life and the mechanisms that encouraged America's residents to fight for freedom from the British crown.

Explores through the efforts to reconstruct the ravaged South and the push to create new life in the promising land to the west of the Mississippi.

Explores America's most recent history from the political and social movements of the 1960s and 1970s to the Reagan years, the War on Terror, and the current struggle against economic recession.

Describes the 1929 stock market crash and the events and effects of the depression that followed, including the New Deal programs.

Explores how the United States transitioned from a rural nation into an industrial giant thanks to progressivism during the Gilded Age.

From the final decades of the 1500s through the mid-1700s, the North American continent witnessed a whirlwind of competition and colonization. Learn how these colonists flourished in the midst of overwhelming obstacles.

Examines a time that saw the United States gain its superpower status and engage in a decades-long cold war with the Communist powers of the world.

Northerners and Southerners had clashed over the expansion of slavery into the western territories, an extended conflict that ultimately had to be decided on the battlefield.

Chronicle the history of the New World from prehistory to 1542, covering the migration of native peoples into North America and European exploration.

Presents a history of the United States from 1929 when the stock market crashed to 1938. Includes illustrations and side-bars.