U.S. History Surveying the history of the United States from the pre-revolutionary era to today, the U.S. History Series from the Choices Program features frequently untold perspectives about the nation’s significant events and turning points. Units on the American Revolution, the founding of the new nation, and westward expansion tell the stories of the country’s earliest years, while the Civil War, civil rights, and the Cuban missile crisis units address critical moments in the nation’s development. The invasion of Iraq, immigration, terrorism, nuclear weapons, and the U.S. role in the world units probe controversial topics and help students to understand the relationship between history and current issues. Pricing for the U.S. History Series reflects a discount of 10 percent.
Civics
Civics Lessons for Student Engagement
These eleven stand-alone lessons have a special focus on civic education. Students explore the founding documents, important Supreme Court cases, and key congressional debates.
Ethnic Studies
Lessons for Ethnic Studies
This collection of twelve lessons selected from the Choices Program’s curriculum series provides teachers with stand-alone activities that have a special focus on ethnic studies for U.S. history courses.
Racial Slavery
Racial Slavery in the Americas: Resistance, Freedom, and Legacies
This unit provides a wide-ranging overview of racial slavery in the Americas and the opportunity for students to consider how the past shapes the present.
American Revolution
The American Revolution: Experiences of Rebellion
Students consider the perspectives of various stakeholders—colonists, enslaved Africans, and Native peoples—and explore the factors that led to rebellion, war, and the independence of the U.S.
New Nation
We the People:
A New Nation
Rather than taking the usual approach of learning history from only the perspective of the elite political leaders, students consider the opportunities, hardships, aspirations, and questions facing people across society in the United States in its earliest years—from 1783 to 1830. 
Westward Expansion
Westward Expansion:
A New History
Students explore the transformation of North America in the nineteenth century and probe this complicated and violent history, considering the major events and policies that accompanied U.S. territorial growth and the effects at a local level. 
Civil War
The Civil War and the Meaning of Liberty
Students probe the history of the United States from 1830 to 1865. Using primary sources, readings, and lessons, students consider the experiences of people in the United States as well as the issues driving the political confrontation over slavery and the meaning of liberty.
Imperial America
Imperial America: U.S. Global Expansion, 1890-1915
Students explore the historical connections between the United States’ creation of a settler colonial empire in North America (what is often called “westward expansion”) and the nation’s acquisition of an overseas colonial empire following the War of 1898.
Isolationism
Between World Wars: FDR and the Age of Isolationism
Students examine the events in the United States and overseas in the early years of World War II and then recreate the great debate that took place in the United States over the Lend-Lease Act.
Japanese American Incarceration
Japanese American Incarceration in World War II
In this unit (FREE in Digital Editions), students examine U.S.-Japan relations before World War II, experiences of incarcerated Japanese Americans, and ways the Japanese American community and others in the U.S. have remembered incarceration.
Civil Rights
Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
Students trace the history of the Black freedom struggle from Reconstruction through the 1960s. Readings and activities focus on the grassroots movement to achieve civil rights for African Americans.
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Considering Its Place in Cold War History
Students probe the complex relationship between the U.S. and Cuba, and examine the crisis that brought the world to the brink of war. The unit incorporates groundbreaking research on the Cuban missile crisis.
Vietnam
The Vietnam War:
Origins, History, and Legacies
This unit tells the “long history” of the destructive, deadly, and divisive U.S. war in Vietnam. Students examine the war’s long-term origins, investigate its complex history, and explore its lasting legacies. 
Iraq
A Global Controversy: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq
Readings and activities explore the history of Iraq, help students understand events surrounding the U.S.-led invasion, and examine the effects of the war on Iraq, the United States, and the international community.
U.S. Role in the World
The U.S. Role in a Changing World
Students identify global issues, assess national priorities, and decide for themselves the role the United States should play in the world.
Nuclear Weapons
The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
Students probe the history of nuclear weapons and the concept of deterrence. They examine arguments for and against nuclear weapons, and the challenges of leftover Cold War arsenals, proliferation, and the threat of nuclear terrorism.
Terrorism
Responding to Terrorism: Challenges for Democracy
Students consider the changing nature of terrorism, the motivations of terrorists, and the policy challenges for the United States.
Immigration
Immigration and the U.S. Policy Debate
Students explore the history of immigration to the United States and recent U.S. policy as they consider the complexities of the U.S. immigration debate and prepare to articulate their own views about this issue.
Middle East
The Middle East: Questions for U.S. Policy
Students examine oil and geopolitics, issues between the Palestinians and Israel, the Egyptian revolution, Syrian refugees, and other issues that have shaped U.S. relations in the region.