Short history of the United States

Discovery and settlement of the New World

Independence and nation building

An emerging identity

The Jacksonian era

The dispute over slavery, secession, and the Civil War

Reconstruction and the Gilded Age

Manifest Destiny, progressivism, war, and the Roaring Twenties

The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II

The Cold War and civil rights

Violence, scandal, and the end of the Cold War

The conservative revolution.