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Overview and Study Guides
Overview and Study Guides
David Beck Ryden
David Beck Ryden
Below you will find some study guides I have made for introductory history courses. Please feel free to have a look and use for your personal use only. -- David Ryden <uhdhistory@gmail.com>
Below you will find some study guides I have made for introductory history courses. Please feel free to have a look and use for your personal use only. -- David Ryden <uhdhistory@gmail.com>
Periodizing U.S. History: One Option
Periodizing U.S. History: One Option
Historians periodize events in order to help organize their thoughts. For this class, I have selected dates that are non-overlapping. You will note that historians use different start and end dates, depending upon their agenda. I have made available a machine readable version.
Study Guides
Study Guides
Copyright ©2009, 2018, 2021 Ryden
Copyright ©2009, 2018, 2021 Ryden
Textbook: P. Scott Corbett et al., U.S. History (Houston: OpenStax: 2014)
Textbook: P. Scott Corbett et al., U.S. History (Houston: OpenStax: 2014)
You can download the entire textbook by following the U.S. History link above. It comes in a variety of formats, including HTML, PDF, and EPUB. Below are PDFs of each chapter.
Chapter 1 The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492
Chapter 2 Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650
Chapter 3 Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700
Chapter 4 Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763
Chapter 5 Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774
Chapter 6 America's War for Independence, 1775-1783
Chapter 7 Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790
Chapter 8 Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820
Chapter 9 Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
Chapter 10 Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840
Chapter 11 A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860
Chapter 12 Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860
Chapter 13 Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860
Chapter 14 Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s
Chapter 15 The Civil War, 1860–1865
Chapter 16 The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
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