Crash Course US History

  • Premiered: Jan 2013
  • Episodes: 47
  • Followers: 10
  • Ended
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Season 1
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The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards
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Jan 31, 2013
In which John Green kicks off Crash Course US History! Why, you may ask, are we covering US History, and not more World History, or the history of some other country, or the very .. show full overview
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When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America
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Feb 07, 2013
In which 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 havens for .. show full overview
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The Natives and the English
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Feb 14, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about relations between the early English colonists and the native people the encountered in the New World. In short, these relations were poor. As soon .. show full overview
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The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies
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Feb 21, 2013
In which 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 .. show full overview
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The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening
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Feb 28, 2013
In which 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 .. show full overview
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Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution
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Mar 07, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the roots of the American Revolution. The Revolution did not start on July 4, 1776. The Revolutionary War didn't start on July 4 either. (as you .. show full overview
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Who Won the American Revolution?
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Mar 14, 2013
In which 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 .. show full overview
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The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism
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Mar 21, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the United States Constitution. During and after the American Revolutionary War, the government of the new country operated under the Articles of .. show full overview
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Where US Politics Came From
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Apr 04, 2013
In which John Green teaches you where American politicians come from. In the beginning, soon after the US constitution was adopted, politics were pretty non-existent. George Washington .. show full overview
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Thomas Jefferson & His Democracy
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Apr 11, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about founding father and third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson is a somewhat controversial figure in American history, .. show full overview
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The War of 1812
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Apr 18, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the War of 1812. The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and its former colonial overlord England. It started in, you guessed it 1812. .. show full overview
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The Market Revolution
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Apr 25, 2013
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. At play was .. show full overview
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Slavery
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May 02, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about America's "peculiar institution," slavery. I wouldn't really call it peculiar. I'd lean more toward horrifying and depressing institution, but .. show full overview
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Age of Jackson
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May 09, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the presidency of Andrew Jackson So how did a president with astoundingly bad fiscal policies end up on the $20 bill? That's a question we can't .. show full overview
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19th Century Reforms
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May 14, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about various reform movements in the 19th century United States. From Utopian societies to the Second Great Awakening to the Abolition movement, American .. show full overview
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Women in the 19th Century
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May 23, 2013
In which John Green finally gets around to talking about some women's history. In the 19th Century, the United States was changing rapidly, as we noted in the recent Market Revolution .. show full overview
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War & Expansion
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Jun 06, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the Mexican-American War in the late 1840s, and the expansion of the United States into the western end of North America. In this episode of Crash .. show full overview
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The Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion
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Jun 13, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the election of 1860. As you may remember from last week, things were not great at this time in US history. The tensions between the North and South .. show full overview
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Battles of the Civil War
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Jun 20, 2013
In which John Green lists a whole lot of the battles of the US Civil War in seven and a half minutes. We get a lot of requests for military history, so we offer a list of battle names, .. show full overview
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The Civil War, Part I
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Jun 28, 2013
In which John Green ACTUALLY teaches about the Civil War. In part one of our two part look at the US Civil War, John looks into the causes of the war, and the motivations of the .. show full overview
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The Civil War, Part 2
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Jul 11, 2013
In which John Green teaches you how the Civil War played a large part in making the United States the country that it is today. He covers some of the key ways in which Abraham Lincoln .. show full overview
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Reconstruction and 1876
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Jul 18, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about Reconstruction. After the divisive, destructive Civil War, Abraham Lincoln had a plan to reconcile the country and make it whole again. Then he got .. show full overview
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Industrial Economy
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Jul 25, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the Industrial Economy that arose in the United States after the Civil War. You know how when you're studying history, and you're reading along and .. show full overview
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Westward Expansion
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Aug 08, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the Wild, Wild, West, which as it turns out, wasn't as wild as it seemed in the movies. When we think of the western expansion of the United States .. show full overview
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Growth, Cities, and Immigration
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Aug 15, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the massive immigration to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. Immigrants flocked to the US from all over the world in .. show full overview
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Gilded Age Politics
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Aug 23, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the Gilded Age and its politics. What, you may ask, is the Gilded Age? The term comes from a book by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner titled, .. show full overview
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The Progressive Era
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Aug 29, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the Progressive Era in the United States. In the late 19th and early 20th century in America, there was a sense that things could be improved upon. .. show full overview
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American Imperialism
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Sep 05, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about Imperialism. In the late 19th century, the great powers of Europe were running around the world obtaining colonial possessions, especially in Africa .. show full overview
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Progressive Presidents
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Sep 12, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the Progressive Presidents, who are not a super-group of former presidents who create complicated, symphonic, rock soundscapes that transport you .. show full overview
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America in World War I
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Sep 19, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about American involvement in World War I, which at the time was called the Great War. They didn't know there was going to be a second one, though they .. show full overview
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Women's Suffrage
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Sep 26, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about American women in the Progressive Era and, well, the progress they made. So the big deal is, of course, the right to vote women gained when the 19th .. show full overview
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The Roaring 20's
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Oct 04, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the United States in the 1920s. They were known as the roaring 20s, but not because there were lions running around everywhere. In the 1920s, .. show full overview
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The Great Depression
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Oct 10, 2013
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 .. show full overview
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The New Deal
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Oct 18, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the New Deal, which was president Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to pull the united States out of the Great Depression of the 1930's. Did it work? .. show full overview
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World War II Part 1
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Oct 25, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about World War II, a subject so big, it takes up two episodes. This week, John will teach you how the United States got into the war, and just how .. show full overview
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World War II Part 2 - The Homefront
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Nov 01, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about World War 2, as it was lived on the home front. You'll learn about how the war changed the country as a whole, and changed how Americans thought .. show full overview
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The Cold War
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Nov 08, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War, which was the decades long conflict between the USA and the USSR. The Cold War was called cold because of the lack of actual fighting, .. show full overview
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The Cold War in Asia
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Nov 15, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War as it unfolded in Asia. As John pointed out last week, the Cold War was occasionally hot, and a lot of that heat was generated in Asia. .. show full overview
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Civil Rights and the 1950s
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Nov 21, 2013
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. The 1950s .. show full overview
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The 1960s in America
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Dec 06, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about a time of relative tumult in the United States, the 1960s. America was changing rapidly in the 1960s, and rights movements were at the forefront of .. show full overview
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The Rise of Conservatism
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Dec 13, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the rise of the conservative movement in United States politics. So, the sixties are often remembered for the liberal changes that the decade .. show full overview
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Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise
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Dec 20, 2013
In which John Green teaches you about the economic malaise that beset the United States in the 1970s. A sort of perfect storm of events, it combined the continuing decline of America's .. show full overview
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The Reagan Revolution
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Jan 11, 2014
In which John Green teaches you about what is often called the Reagan Era. Mainly, it covers the eight years during which a former actor who had also been governor of the state of .. show full overview
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George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War
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Jan 16, 2014
In which John Green teaches you about the end of the Cold War and the presidency of George H.W. Bush. It was neither the best of times, nor the worst of times. On the domestic front, the .. show full overview
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The Clinton Years, or the 1990s
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Jan 23, 2014
In which John Green teaches you about the United States as it was in the 1990s. You'll remember from last week that the old-school Republican George H.W. Bush had lost the 1992 .. show full overview
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Terrorism, War, and Bush 43
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Jan 30, 2014
In which John Green teaches you about the tumultuous 2000's in the United States of America, mainly the 2000's that coincide with the presidency of George W Bush. From the controversial .. show full overview
1x47 Show finale
Obamanation
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Feb 06, 2014
In which John Green teaches you about recent history. By which we mean VERY recent history. John covers the end of George W. Bush's administration presidency of Barack Obama (so far). .. show full overview

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