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An audiobook production of "US History", an OpenStax textbook. This textbook provides an overview of American history, and is used widely in college-level History courses. OpenStax textbooks and this podcast are offered under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY). Text available for free at openstax.org. Produced by Brian Barrick (www.openaudio.us).

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Chapter 32 - The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century 09.07.2024 1:35:22

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:33 - Introduction • 0:01:44 - The War on Terror (32.1) • 0:20:27 - The Domestic Mission (32.2) • 0:46:00 - New Century, Old Disputes (32.3) • 0:59:52 - Hope and Change (32.4) • 1:24:02 - Political Divides and Social Movements (32.5) • 1:34:13 - Credits 📖 ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This popular textbook...

Chapter 31 - From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000 27.06.2024 1:38:26

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:36 - Introduction • 0:02:17 - The Reagan Revolution (31.1) • 0:15:53 - Political and Cultural Fusions (31.2) • 0:37:54 - A New World Order (31.3) • 1:05:24 - Bill Clinton and the New Economy (31.4) • 1:37:17 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This popular textbook is designed for college-level U.S. h...

Chapter 30 - Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980 24.06.2024 1:38:21

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:35 - Introduction • 0:01:45 - Identity Politics in a Fractured Society (30.1) • 0:25:48 - Coming Apart, Coming Together (30.2) • 0:50:38 - Vietnam: The Downward Spiral (30.3) • 1:09:30 - Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare (30.4) • 1:26:12 - Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm (30.5) • 1:37:12 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production o...

Chapter 29 - Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s 21.06.2024 1:31:51

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:35 - Introduction • 0:02:07 - The Kennedy Promise (29.1) • 0:25:41 - Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society (29.2) • 0:45:06 - The Civil Rights Movement Marches On (29.3) • 1:15:27 - Challenging the Status Quo (29.4) • 1:30:42 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This popular textbook is designed for col...

Chapter 28 - Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960 20.06.2024 1:29:48

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:35 - Introduction • 0:02:04 - The Challenges of Peacetime (28.1) • 0:13:34 - The Cold War (28.2) • 0:41:39 - The American Dream (28.3) • 1:02:08 - Popular Culture and Mass Media (28.4) • 1:10:39 - The African American Struggle for Civil Rights (28.5) • 1:28:39 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This...

Chapter 27 - Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945 19.06.2024 1:30:59

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:36 - Introduction • 0:01:57 - The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States (27.1) • 0:25:46 - The Home Front (27.2) • 1:03:21 - Victory in the European Theater (27.3) • 1:17:22 - The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb (27.4) • 1:29:50 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This popular textbo...

Chapter 26 - Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 18.06.2024 1:26:36

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:35 - Introduction • 0:02:05 - The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt (26.1) • 0:15:50 - The First New Deal (26.2) • 0:46:59 - The Second New Deal (26.3) • 1:25:27 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This popular textbook is designed for college-level U.S. history courses, and provides a comprehensive history...

Chapter 25 - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932 18.06.2024 1:31:16

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:38 - Introduction • 0:02:12 - The Stock Market Crash of 1929 (25.1) • 0:38:18 - President Hoover’s Response (25.2) • 0:57:02 - The Depths of the Great Depression (25.3) • 1:22:13 - Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal (25.4) • 1:30:07 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This popular t...

Chapter 24 - The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 17.06.2024 1:14:45

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:37 - Introduction • 0:02:18 - Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment (24.1) • 0:18:28 - Transformation and Backlash (24.2) • 0:39:37 - A New Generation (24.3) • 1:00:52 - Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s (24.4) • 1:13:36 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This popular text...

Chapter 23 - Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919 16.06.2024 1:35:04

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:36 - Introduction • 0:02:12 - American Isolationism and the European Origins of War (23.1) • 0:27:52 - The United States Prepares for War (23.2) • 0:43:14 - A New Home Front (23.3) • 1:01:24 - From War to Peace (23.4) • 1:18:22 - Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath (23.5) • 1:33:55 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,...

Chapter 22 - Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914 14.05.2024 1:09:17

Chapter 21 - Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920 10.05.2024 1:12:40

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:36 - Introduction • 0:01:59 - The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America (21.1) • 0:08:06 - Progressivism at the Grassroots Level (21.2) • 0:30:25 - New Voices for Women and African Americans (21.3) • 0:46:08 - Progressivism in the White House (21.4) • 1:11:31 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook....

Chapter 20 - Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900 09.05.2024 1:10:07

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:35 - Introduction • 0:01:56 - Political Corruption in Postbellum America (20.1) • 0:18:13 - The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold (20.2) • 0:39:30 - Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era (20.3) • 0:52:07 - Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s (20.4) • 1:08:58 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax te...

Chapter 19 - The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900 07.05.2024 1:17:33

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:35 - Introduction • 0:02:00 - Urbanization and Its Challenges (19.1) • 0:22:20 - The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration (19.2) • 0:36:28 - Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life (19.3) • 1:01:18 - Change Reflected in Thought and Writing (19.4) • 1:16:25 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenS...

Chapter 18 - Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900 03.05.2024 1:19:51

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:37 - Introduction • 0:02:17 - Inventors of the Age (18.1) • 0:15:27 - From Invention to Industrial Growth (18.2) • 0:40:19 - Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor (18.3) • 1:11:04 - A New American Consumer Culture (18.4) • 1:18:42 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This popular textbook i...

Chapter 17 - Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900 02.05.2024 1:21:40

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:36 - Introduction • 0:02:10 - The Westward Spirit (17.1) • 0:20:35 - Homesteading: Dreams and Realities (17.2) • 0:32:40 - Making a Living in Gold and Cattle (17.3) • 0:51:17 - The Assault on American Indian Life and Culture (17.4) • 1:08:27 - The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens (17.5) • 1:20:31 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK:...

Chapter 16 - The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877 26.04.2024 1:25:07

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:36 - Introduction • 0:02:20 - Restoring the Union (16.1) • 0:18:03 - Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866 (16.2) • 0:31:59 - Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872 (16.3) • 0:57:53 - The Collapse of Reconstruction (16.4) • 1:23:59 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This popular textbook is de...

Chapter 15 - The Civil War, 1860–1865 25.04.2024 1:29:14

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:35 - Introduction • 0:02:01 - The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War (15.1) • 0:20:45 - Early Mobilization and War (15.2) • 0:37:43 - 1863: The Changing Nature of the War (15.3) • 1:09:59 - The Union Triumphant (15.4) • 1:28:05 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This popular textbook is designed f...

Chapter 14 - Troubled Times: The Tumultuous 1850s 23.04.2024 1:06:35

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:34 - Introduction • 0:02:14 - The Compromise of 1850 (14.1) • 0:25:57 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party (14.2) • 0:45:53 - The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife (14.3) • 0:57:40 - John Brown and the Election of 1860 (14.4) • 1:05:27 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This popu...

Chapter 13 - Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860 16.04.2024 1:11:19

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:36 - Introduction • 0:02:20 - An Awakening of Religion and Individualism (13.1) • 0:17:50 - Antebellum Communal Experiments (13.2) • 0:33:20 - Reforms to Human Health (13.3) • 0:45:04 - Addressing Slavery (13.4) • 1:01:35 - Women’s Rights (13.5) • 1:10:10 - Credits

Chapter 12 - Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860 11.04.2024 1:19:57

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:37 - Introduction • 0:02:02 - The Economics of Cotton (12.1) • 0:21:00 - African Americans in the Antebellum United States (12.2) • 0:43:34 - Wealth and Culture in the South (12.3) • 1:10:14 - The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States (12.4) • 1:18:49 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This p...

Chapter 11 - A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860 09.04.2024 1:14:41

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:36 - Introduction • 0:02:08 - Lewis and Clark (11.1) • 0:17:39 - The Missouri Crisis (11.2) • 0:25:26 - Independence for Texas (11.3) • 0:41:08 - The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848 (11.4) • 1:01:09 - Free or Slave Soil? The Dilemma of the West (11.5) • 1:13:33 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This...

Chapter 10 - Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840 04.04.2024 1:03:34

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:35 - Introduction • 0:02:13 - A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson (10.1) • 0:21:49 - The Rise of American Democracy (10.2) • 0:29:12 - The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War (10.3) • 0:41:40 - Indian Removal (10.4) • 0:55:13 - The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority (10.5) • 1:02:25 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook p...

Chapter 9 - Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850 02.04.2024 1:11:48

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:36 - Introduction • 0:02:25 - Early Industrialization in the Northeast (9.1) • 0:31:00 - A Vibrant Capitalist Republic (9.2) • 0:49:23 - On the Move: The Transportation Revolution (9.3) • 0:57:31 - A New Social Order: Class Divisions (9.4) • 1:10:40 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This popular tex...

Chapter 8 - Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820 29.03.2024 1:14:08

⏳ TIME STAMPS: • 0:00:00 - Welcome • 0:00:36 - Introduction • 0:02:01 - Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans (8.1) • 0:24:06 - The New American Republic (8.2) • 0:40:30 - Partisan Politics (8.3) • 1:00:20 - The United States Goes Back to War (8.4) • 1:13:00 - Credits 📖ABOUT THE BOOK: An audiobook production of “US History,” an OpenStax textbook. This popular textbook is desi...