CRITICAL ISSUES OF AMERICAN HISTORY
An interactive, multimedia history of the United States from the Revolution to the present, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The American
Revolution
Why should we care about the
American Revolution?
Why did the American Revolution
take place?
Why did the colonists rebel and the
British resist?
How were the colonies able to win
independence?
How revolutionary was the American
Revolution?
Creating new state governments
The
Critical Period: America in the 1780s
Economic and foreign policy
problems
The
U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
What Americans don’t know about
the Constitution
The oldest written national
framework of government
Was the Constitutional Convention
legal?
The U.S. Constitution and the
organization of the national government
Why has the Constitution
survived? How has the constitutional system changed?
The Founders
The First New
Nation
James Thomson Callender,
Scandalmonger
Challenges Facing the New Nation
Alexander Hamilton’s Financial
Program
The Birth of Political Parties
Jeffersonian
Republicanism
The Eagle, the Tiger, and the Shark
Religion
and the Early Republic
The Revolt against Enlightened
Religion
Enslaved African Americans and
religious revivalism
Religious Freedom and the
Founders
Religion and the U.S.
Constitution
The
Struggle for Public Schools
Education in the American Colonies
Education in the Early Republic
Schooling in early 19th
century America
Should teachers be allowed to use
physical punishment?
Antislavery
The Rise of antislavery thoughts
Was the Revolution a missed
opportunity to end slavery?
The impact of the Revolution on
slavery
The decline of antislavery
sentiment in the South
Division in the antislavery
movement
The Abolitionists and Violence
The
Abolitionists
The
Origins and Nature of New World Slavery
Slavery in historical perspective
Slavery in the Ancient, Medieval, and
Early Modern Worlds
The newness of New World slavery
The impact of the slave trade on West
and Central Africa
The origins of New World slavery
Slavery in Colonial North America
The American Revolution and slavery
American slavery in comparative
perspective
Westward
Expansion
Impact of the Mexican Revolution
“Go West…and grow up with the
Country”
The Texas Question in American
Politics
War Fever and Antiwar Protests
The Impending
Crisis
The Breakdown of the Party System