AMERICAN HISTORY

ABC-CLIO’s American History gives students a genuine appreciation of American history by examining its defining roles and movements and the implicit yet underlining role each played in the evolution of the America they know. It frames past events in the context of contemporary realities, helping students to critically examine America’s history and how it relates to its future.

Surveying American history from the colonial era and American Revolution through to the nation’s rise to eminence as a global superpower, American History analyzes American political conflict, economic development, and changing culture and thought as they tell the continuous and continuing story of America’s history.

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Exploration and Colonization, 1350-1760

  • Exploration, 1350-1550
  • European Colonization, 1492-1752
  • The English Colonies, 1605-1760

Revolutionary Era, 1754-1783

  • The Coming of Independence, 1754-1776
  • The American Revolution, 1774-1783

A New Nation, 1776-1800

  • The Constitution, 1776-1800
  • The Emergence of a Nation, 1789-1800

Expansion and Reform, 1790-1850

  • Political Life in a New Nation, 1800-1830
  • A Developing Economy, 1790-1850
  • Westward Expansion, 1790-1850
  • Social Movements, 1815-1850

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1840-1877

  • Prelude to the Civil War, 1840-1861
  • The Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Industrialization and Immigration, 1850-1900

  • The West, 1850-1900
  • The Rise of American Industry, 1850-1900
  • Urban Life, 1860-1900

Gilded Age to World War I, 1870-1920

  • The Gilded Age, 1870-1914
  • The Progressive Era, 1890-1920
  • America as a World Power, 1890-1914
  • World War I, 1914-1920

Great Depression to the New Deal, 1920-1939

  • The Twenties, 1920-1929
  • The Crash and Great Depression, 1929-1939
  • The New Deal, 1932-1939

World War II and the Cold War Era, 1939-1960

  • World War II, 1939-1945
  • The Cold War, 1945-1960
  • The Fifties, 1950-1959

A Nation in Upheaval, 1954-1975

  • The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1975
  • The Vietnam War, 1954-1975
  • The Sixties, 1960-1969
  • Nixon and Watergate, 1968-1975

Conservative Agenda to the Clinton Era, 1975-2000

  • Post-Watergate Society, 1975-1989
  • The Conservative Tide, 1980-1992
  • The Close of the 20th Century, 1992-2000

Age of Globalization, 2001-Present

  • America Embraces the New

Millennium, 2008-Present

  • Beginning of a New Era, 2008-Present

Created explicitly for middle and high school students, each database includes:

  • A comprehensive reference library from more than 230,000 primary sources, including audio, video, photographs, illustrations, maps, and rich media
  • A standards-based curriculum updated every day by a team of subject matter experts and supported by an exhaustive range of instructional material
  • An expansive library of model commentaries from noted scholars to help foster critical thinking by exposing students to multiple points of view
  • An educator support center with helpful, professional development tools plus educational resources like discussion points, activities, and lesson plans

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