Gale Researcher
Delve Into Complex History
Students of American history concentrate on understanding the dynamic forces that have shaped the United States and its development into a world leader. Essential to the American history curriculum is the United States' emergence and actions as a global superpower as well as the internal social, political, economic, and cultural conflicts that have impacted its very essence and character.
Gale Researcher covers the depth and breadth of US history from its origins to present day, including content on key events, issues, movements, and wars. Study of the past is essential to paving the way to the future, and access to more content can aid student comprehension and analysis of the curriculum-aligned concepts that are necessary to understand the events that shaped our present.
Topical Coverage Includes
Part I: Early Exploration to the 18th Century in US History aligns to the course US History to 1865. Specific topics include:
- Exploration and Colonization in the Americas
- Native Americans and Europeans
- The Colonial Era
- Gender and Race in Colonial and Revolutionary America
- The Colonial Wars
- Native Americans and War
- Britain's Imperial Crisis: The Buildup to Revolution
- The Revolutionary War
- The US Constitution
- The New Republic
Part II: Early 19th Century to Reconstruction in US History includes the following:
- The Jeffersonian Era
- Postcolonial Economic Transformations
- Foreign Policy in the New Republic
- Slavery and the Old South
- An Era of Reform and Religious Revivalism
- The Age of Jackson
- Westward Expansion
- Slavery: A Growing Political Crisis
- The Civil War
- Reconstruction
Part III: Post-Reconstruction to World War I in US History aligns to the course US History since 1865. Specific topics include:
- The South from Reconstruction to Jim Crow
- The Rise of Corporate America
- Politics in Late-19th-Century America
- Expansion in the West
- Immigration and Urbanization
- The Progressive Era
- Women and the Right to Vote
- America's Growing Influence Abroad
- World War I and Its Aftermath
- Native Americans 1850 - 1920
Part IV: Post-World War I to Present in US History includes the following:
- The 1920s
- The Great Depression and the New Deal
- World War II
- The Cold War
- The Civil Rights Movement
- The 1960s
- America in Vietnam
- Nixon and Watergate
- The Reagan Era
- The War on Terror
FEATURED TESTIMONIAL
FROM BOB JONES UNIVERSITY
“…a great tool for librarians in teaching faculty and students information literacy skills, as well as taking some of the fear from some survey courses.”
- Megan Kickbush, Circulation Supervisor, Bob Jones University Mack Library
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subjects covered
- U.S. History
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