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American Empire
At this time, while naval manoeuvres are attracting attention among the people of the United States -
The Gilded Age
During this era, America became more prosperous and saw unprecedented growth in industry and technology. -
The Great Upheaval
When leaders of the BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY ordered this second reduction in less than eight months, railroad workers in MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA decided they had had enough. -
The Progressive Era
A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned from the 1890s to the 1920s. -
Completing Westward Expansion
Life on the Frontier
Assimilation of Native Americans -
America on the World Stage
The First World War was a conflict which the United States remained out of until April 1917. -
The 1920s
During the 1920s, American culture became increasingly centered on mass media (including records, radio, and movies) -
The Great Depression
The worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. -
The Second World War
A global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. -
The Cold War
A period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states (the Eastern Bloc), and the United States with its allies (the Western Bloc) after World War II. -
The Civil Rights Revolution
In the United States was a decades-long struggle with the goal of enforcing constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already enjoyed. -
Vietnam War
Was an undeclared war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
Counterculture
The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s. -
Covert Action
During the 1970s, Congressional investigations into government intelligence actions revealed a number of covert (or hidden) operations against foreign powers which flirted with Communism. -
The Evil Empire
President Ronald Reagan, who owed his 1980 election–in part–to the perceived weakness of the Carter Administration in the face of Soviet aggression, gave this speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in 1983.
