The Alpha Teach Yourself style offers a clear promise: essential knowledge of American history in 24 one-hour long lessons.-- The strong tutorial element in this book makes it a perfect classroom supplement for teachers and students.This Alpha Tech Yourself title offers a concise step-by-step survey of the great events, personalities and ideas symbolizing American History, including the arrival of the first (native) Americans, the formation of the American colonies, our country's road to independence through the Revolution, westward expansion, slavery and the sectionalism of America, the Civil War, reform and the immigrant inflow to America, our darkest economic hour in the Depression and the promise of The New Deal, all the World Wars, Vietnam and the "Cold" one, the Civil Rights Movement, the counter-culture and environmentalism, the 80s new conservatism, the space shuttle, and coming to grips with the new terror now facing our nation.