FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO TODAY

Topics: Custer’s Last Stand, the double-edged sword of capitalism, progressivism and societal improvement, the Spanish-American War and an imperial America, World War I, Prohibition, the Great Depression and New Deal, World War II and the use of the atomic bomb, Cold War containment, acts of courage in the civil rights movement, American troops in Vietnam, Reagan’s role in ending the Cold War, American involvement in the Persian Gulf War, and the war on terror.