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In 48 episodes, host John Green will teach students the history of the United States of America. This series is based on the 2013 AP U.S. History curriculum.

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: When Is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Natives and the English

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: Taxes and Smuggling--Prelude to Revolution

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: Who Won the American Revolution?

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: Where U.S. Politics Came From

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: Thomas Jefferson and His Democracy

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The War of 1812

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Market Revolution

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Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: Age of Jackson

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Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Election of 1860 and the Road to Disunion

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Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: Growth, Cities, and Immigration

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: Gilded Age Politics

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Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: American Imperialism

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Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: America in World War I

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: Civil Rights and the 1950s

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The 1960s in America

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Rise of Conservatism

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: Ford Carter and the Economic Malaise

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