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U.S. History, 1492-1865

1. Slavery in South Carolina, 1669-1739: Black Majority
2. The Salem Witch-trials: Salem Possessed
3. Prelude to Revolution: The Colonies Come of Age
4. Popular Protest and the American Revolution
5. Tom Paine and Revolutionary America
6. War of 1812
7. Onedia County, New York in the 1830s: Cradle of the Middle Class
8. The American Frontier, 1820s and 1830s: Shopkeeper's Millennium
9. Mexican-American War
10. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
11. Origins of the Civil War: Slavery and Freedom
12. Uncle Tom's Cabin
13. Sample Exams

U.S. History, 1865-Present

1. W. E. B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk
2. Native American Testimony
3. Immigration and Populism
4. Labor and Immigration: Out of this Furnace
5. The New American Empire, 1898
6. The Progressive Era
7. Turn-of-the-Century America: The 42nd Parallel
8. The Jim Crow South: Black Boy
9. The Roaring Twenties: Babbitt
10. The Great Depression: Hard Times
11. Japanese-American Internment: Desert Exile
12. The Cold War, 1947-1989
13. The Struggle for Black Civil Rights: Coming of Age in Mississippi
14. Second-wave Feminism: The Feminine Mystique
15. The Vietnam War: Dispatches
16. America in the 1980s: Hunger of Memory
17. Sample Exams

Documents in American History

1. 1492-1609: First Contact, Europe and the Americas
2. 1760-1776: Popular Protest and the American Revolution
3. 1810-1814: The Decision for War, 1812
4. 1846-1848: Origins of the Mexican-American War
5. 1880-1920: Women and the Progressive Era
6. 1941-1945: Memory and History: The United States, Japan, and World War II
7. U.S. Demographic History