National Network for Equitable Library Service

Discovery and settlement of the New World -- Independence and nation building -- An emerging identity -- The Jacksonian era -- The dispute over slavery, secession, and the Civil War -- Reconstruction and the Gilded Age -- Manifest Destiny, progressivism, war, and the Roaring Twenties -- The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II -- The Cold War and civil rights -- Violence, scandal, and the end of the Cold War -- The conservative revolution.