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Bring Your Students the Exciting Story of the Century They Live In. Discovering relationships, interpreting evidence, connecting the present to the pastthats what history is all aboutand this engaging program helps students do all those things. Integrating an interesting narrative with fascinating visuals makes history live.
Synopsis
Discovering relationships, interpreting evidence, connecting the present to the pastthats what history is all about. This engaging program helps students do all those things integrating an interesting narrative with fascinating visuals.
Synopsis
A unique program focused on the social history of the United States American Odyssey: The 20th Century and Beyondcovers relationships, interprets evidence, and connects the present to the pastthat's what history is all about. This engaging program helps students do all those things.
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Table of Contents
UNIT ONE A Nation of Nations 40,000 B.C. - 1800 A.D.
Chapter 1 A Geographic Perspective on History
Chapter 2 Encounters and Colonies
Chapter 3 The American Revolution
Chapter 4 A New Nation
UNIT TWO Rift and Reunion 1800 - 1900
Chapter 5 The Expanding Nation
Chapter 6 Civil War and Reconstruction
Chapter 7 New Frontiers
UNIT THREE The Roots of a Modern Nation 1880 - 1920
Chapter 8 Progressive Reforms
Chapter 9 Progressivism Takes Hold
Chapter 10 Expansionism and World War I
UNIT FOUR The New Era of the Twenties 1920 - 1929
Chapter 11 Getting on With Business
Chapter 12 A Prospering Society
UNIT FIVE Economic Crisis and the New Deal 1929 - 1939
Chapter 13 The Great Depression
Chapter 14 The New Deal
UNIT SIX The United States Transformed 1933 - 1945
Chapter 15 World War II
Chapter 16 The Home Front
UNIT SEVEN The Postwar World 1945 - 1963
Chapter 17 The Uneasy Peace
Chapter 18 The Postwar Era
Chapter 19 Cold War Politics
UNIT EIGHT Toward Equality and Social Reform 1954 - 1979
Chapter 20 The Civil Rights Struggle
Chapter 21 The Kennedy and Johnson Years
Chapter 22 Voices of Protest
UNIT NINE The Troubled Years 1964 - 1980
Chapter 23 The Vietnam War
Chapter 24 From Nixon to Carter
UNIT TEN New Challenges 1980 - Present
Chapter 25 The Reagan and Bush Years
Chapter 26 A Changing Nation in a Changing World