Crash Course American History
This course offers a concise and structured overview of American history, covering key periods from pre-colonial times to the modern era, emphasizing critical thinking, thematic connections, and analytical skills for understanding historical events and their impacts.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This quick overview of American history provides a fast, organised look at major periods, starting from native communities and early settlements to the fight for independence, the civil war, rebuilding efforts, industrial growth, and social changes. It then follows the story of American influence, democratic values, issues of race, human rights, and economic shifts through the world wars, the Cold War period, people's movements, and global connections, all while building your ability to think critically about history right away.
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Develop skills
- Get a solid grasp of main American history periods: from early settlements to the early 2000s, in a straightforward way.
- Examine the reasons and outcomes: of wars, changes, and rights movements in simple timelines.
- Link together themes of race, democracy, and the economy across key historical moments.
- Apply history analysis methods to study, question, and explain original documents.
- Create a four-part quick course outline for lively, fact-supported teaching sessions.
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