Chapter-by-chapter videos to go with A Young People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, adapted by Rebecca Stefoff (2023 revised edition, with Ed Morales)
BrainPOP links open the topic page (log in to watch the movie and take the quiz). YouTube picks lean on Crash Course, TED-Ed, and other classroom channels. Check the box on a chapter when you're done — it remembers.
Columbus arrives — seen through the eyes of the Arawak/Taíno people. Conquest, and Bartolomé de las Casas.
How African slavery began in colonial Virginia, and how racism was built alongside it.
Rich and poor in the colonies: indentured servants, class tensions, and Bacon's Rebellion.
The road to revolution: Stamp Act, Boston Massacre, Tea Party — and who steered the anger.
The Revolutionary War — who fought it, who won what, and the Constitution as a compromise.
Women's lives and labor in early America, the Lowell mill girls, and Seneca Falls.
Indian removal: Andrew Jackson, the Trail of Tears, and the Seminole Wars.
Manifest destiny, the Mexican-American War, and the Americans who opposed it.
Slavery and resistance, the abolitionists, the Civil War, emancipation — and Reconstruction's end.
Not the one you think: renters' revolts, factory life, and the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
The Gilded Age: Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan — and the strikes and Populists who fought back.
The Spanish-American War, Hawaii and the Philippines, and the anti-imperialists.
The Progressive era from below: the IWW, the Triangle fire, Ludlow, and Eugene Debs.
The Great War, American entry, propaganda — and what happened to those who spoke against it.
The Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the Bonus Army, sit-down strikes, and the New Deal.
WWII, Japanese-American internment, the atomic bomb, Korea, and McCarthyism.
Montgomery, sit-ins, Freedom Rides, Dr. King, Malcolm X, and Black Power.
The war in Vietnam and the movement at home that helped end it.
Movements nobody predicted: women's liberation, prisoners' rights and Attica, and the American Indian Movement.
Puerto Rico, the Chicano movement, Cesar Chavez and the farm workers, and Latino immigration.
Watergate, Nixon's resignation, and what the Church Committee found out about the CIA and FBI.
Carter, Reagan, and Bush: Iran-Contra, Central America, and the Gulf War.
Grassroots movements of the '80s and '90s: anti-nuclear, environmental, and disability rights.
The Clinton years, globalization and NAFTA, and the Seattle WTO protests.
September 11, the war in Afghanistan, and the debate over security and liberty.
The Iraq War, the case made for it, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2008 financial crisis.
Occupy, Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, March for Our Lives, and the youth climate movement.