First Quarter–Review Civil War and Reconstruction, Expansion of American Industry, Westward Expansion, Politics-Immigration-Urban Life, Gilded Age and Progressive Reform, US as an Emerging Power, World War I

Second Quarter–1920′s, Economic Crash and Great Depression, Roosevelt and the New Deal Programs, World War II

Third Quarter–Post-War and the Cold War, the Kennedy and Johnson years, Civil Rights and Other Social Movements, the Vietnam War, Changes in American Society

Fourth Quarter–the Nixon years, Post Watergate, Reagan and the Conservative Revolution, the Clinton era