Crash Course US History (2013)
Crash Course US History
2013John Green teaches you the history of the United States of America in 47 episodes!
Seasons & Episode
John Green teaches you about the (English) colonies in what is now the United States. He covers the first permanent English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the various theocracies in Massachusetts, the feudal kingdom in Maryland, and even a bit about the spooky lost colony at Roanoke Island.
John Green teaches you about relations between the early English colonists and the native people the encountered in the New World.
John Green teaches you about some of the colonies that were not in Virginia or Massachussetts. Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can say; ENGLISH people just liked it better that way, and when the English took New Amsterdam in 1643, that's just what they did.
John Green teaches you about the beginnings of the American Revolution in a video titled The Seven Years War. Confusing? Maybe. John argues that the Seven Years War, which is often called the French and Indian War in the US, laid a lot of the groundwork for the Revolution.
John Green teaches you about the American Revolution. And the Revolutionary War. I know we've labored the point here, but they weren't the same thing. In any case, John will teach you about the major battles of the war, and discuss the strategies on both sides.
In which John Green teaches you where American politicians come from.
John Green teaches you about founding father and third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson.
In which John Green teaches you about the Market Revolution. In the first half of the 19th century, the way people lived and worked in the United States changed drastically.
In which John Green teaches you about the massive immigration to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In which John Green teaches you about the Gilded Age and its politics.
In which John Green teaches you about the Progressive Era in the United States.
In which John Green teaches you about the Great Depression. So, everybody knows that the Great Depression started with the stock market crash in 1929, right? Not exactly. The Depression happened after the stock market crash, but wasn't caused by the crash. John will teach you about how the depression started, what Herbert Hoover tried to do to fix it, and why those efforts failed.
In which John Green teaches you about the early days of the Civil Rights movement. By way of providing context for this, John also talks a bit about wider America in the 1950s.
In which John Green teaches you about the rise of the conservative movement in United States politics.
In which John Green teaches you about the end of the Cold War and the presidency of George H.W. Bush.
In which John Green teaches you about the United States as it was in the 1990s.
John Green teaches you the history of the United States of America in 47 episodes!