Free Online Textbooks - US History
Free Online Textbooks. The mission of Independence Hall Association, owner of ushistory.org, is to provide a forum for learning and discussing American history and values. Toward that end we offer these three courses written by a former Pennsylvania history teacher of the year, in conjunction with other historians, as a resource to our visitors.
US History
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Resources for Teachers and Students - US History
U.S. History: Textbook. A detailed history of the United States, from before the arrrival of Europeans on the American continent, up through the end of the 20th Century. Ancient Civilization: Textbook
Ancient Civilizations - US History
The United States and our world today represents the latest chapter in the book that is history. This course presents many of the chapters that led up to our chapter. Here is much of the back-story that helps us all understand our historic inheritance and the choices we may make.
54b. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott - US History
From the National Women's History Museum, this biography of Rosa Parks is but one of many extraordinary American women. Report broken link
American Government - US History
Since the advent of civilization, humans have had an impulse to form governments. It is an experiment thousands of years in the making. This course asks a lot of fundamental questions about the nature of government and society.
17c. The First Administration - US History
Take a trip to lower Manhattan in New York City without the hassle of finding a place to park. See the remnants of Federal Hall where George Washington was first sworn in as president in 1789. You'll get a short history of the site, a "now and then" picture, and a piping hot slice of New York pizza. Ok, ok, no pizza ... but it's still worth the ...
36. The Gilded Age - US History
Industrial Strength. Nevertheless, the American economy grew and grew. By 1914, the small nation once seen as a playground for European empires had now surpassed them all.
1. Native American Society on the Eve of British Colonization - US …
An examination of three groups — Anasazi, Iroquois, and Algonkian — serves as a beginning to learning about the American world that once was.