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    Sage American History is divided into 30 chronological sections, colonial through modern times.

    Colonial through Civil War, 1607-1865

    • Colonial America,1607-1740
    • Native Americans
    • The American Colonies & the British Empire 1660-1763
    • The Colonial Wars of Empire
    • The Revolutionary War Era 1763-1783
    • The National-Federal Period 1783-1801
    • The Constitution
    • The Jeffersonian Era 1800-1828
    • The Age of Jackson 1828-1844
    • Antebellum America 1840-1860
    • Economic Growth 1820-1860
    • Expansion & Manifest Destiny
    • Texas & the Mexican-American War
    • The 1850s: The Drift Toward War
    • The Civil War 1861-1865

    Modern American, 1865-2013

    • Reconstruction & Civil Rights 1865-1890
    • The Gilded Age 1865-1900
    • Gilded Age Politics
    • The Progressive Era 1896-1916
    • America's Rise to World Power 1896-1920
    • World War I: The Great War 1914-1918
    • The Twenties and Depression Years 1920-1940
    • The Great Depression & New Deal 1929-1939
    • The Interwar Years 1920-1940
    • World War II 1939-1945
    • Post World War II
    • Post World War II Domestic Issues
    • The Cold War Era 1945-1990
    • The Civil Rights Movement
    • America in the Twenty-First Century

    Sage American History is designed for use by undergraduate college, community college and high school teachers and students. These open educational resources may be used without charge by any academic institution or individual as long as copyrights are respected. Users should be aware that the course modules are not an objective text, but rather a detailed description of historic events as interepreted by a teaching historian who has been delivering classroom lectures for over 40 years. Thus you will find opinions, conclusions, anecdotes, comparisons and other such components designed to challenge your imagination and your own knowledge. The summaries are based on the writings of distinguished historians as well as original document sources. This course material focuses on the main events and characters of America's past, recognizing that most students will take only one or two courses in American history. The big events are the line on which all else hangs. Students will wantto delve further into our past, and resources to that end are pointed out here.

    Additional Site Elements

    • Introduction to American History
    • Resources and links to Historic Sites
    • Recommended Readings & Texts
    • The Electoral College
    • Conspiracy Theories, Chaos Theory and History
    • Henry J. Sage's Personal Page

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