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The progressive movement

1996
Covers events in the history of the United States including the roots of progressivism; settlement houses and muckrakers; social justice and economic reform; city bosses and political reform; Progressive reform as national policy; Socialists and Wobblies; and the suffrage movement.

The era of colonization

(1585-1763)
1996
Covers events in the history of North America including European settlers; European and Native American interaction; Jamestown; Puritan settlements and society; religious diversity; religious freedom; Quakers; and the French and Indian War.

A nation in turmoil

1996
Covers the history of the United States including the rise of organized labor; strikes and labor strife; women and children in the workplace; political corruption and city machine politics; and Populists, Socialists, and Anarchists.

The Spanish & colonial Santa Fe

1999
Explores the history of Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded in 1610 as the northernmost outpost of the vast Spanish empire in the New World. In search of cities of gold, the Spanish expanded northward from Mexico, but instead of gold they found the Pueblo Indians, whom they converted to Catholicism and made Spanish citizens. Despite ongoing conflicts, the unique mix of the Spanish and Pueblo cultures left a lasting legacy that can still be seen in Sante Fe today.

Jamestown

1998
Explores the history and daily life of the early Jamestown settlers through eleven-year-old Greg, who gets zapped into the Internet while researching a project and finds himself transported to the colony.

U.S. & the world

1865-1917
1996
Covers events in the history of the United States from isolationism to expansionism; the purchase of Alaska; federal Native American policies; the Spanish American War; the Panama Canal; dollar diplomacy and intervention in Latin America; and the Open Door Policy.

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