US History
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US History
Discover US History, an audiobook production of the popular OpenStax textbook. Designed for college-level courses, this comprehensive guide takes you through the history of the United States from pre-Columbian times to the present day. Whether you’re a student, educator, or history enthusiast, this audiobook is the perfect tool to explore major events, cultural shifts, and influential figures that have shaped the nation. Listen along as we delve into America’s past and uncover the stories that define its heritage.
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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 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 16: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
Chapter 17: Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900
Chapter 18: Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900
Chapter 19: The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
Chapter 20: Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900
Chapter 21: Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920
Chapter 22: Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914
Chapter 23: Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919
Chapter 24: The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929
Chapter 25: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932
Chapter 26: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941
Chapter 27: Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945
Chapter 28: Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960
Chapter 29: Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s
Chapter 30: Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980
Chapter 31: From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000
Chapter 32: The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
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This audiobook production of the OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e is offered under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY 4.0). You are free to use, revise, remix, and share these recordings as long as you give proper attribution.
The full textbook is available for free at https://openstax.org. Some editorial changes were made to the text to ensure a better listening experience.
Funding for this project was provided by CC-ECHO (California Consortium for Equitable Change in Hispanic Serving Institutions Open Educational Resources). The contents of this audiobook were developed under an Open Textbooks Pilot grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.
is the producer of this full-length audiobook. He is a professor of Political Science at Los Angeles Harbor College where he teaches classes on American Government, Political Theory, and Global Politics.
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