The American Yawp

Middle School Edition

A free, open-source American history textbook for grades 6–8.
Adapted from The American Yawp, the collaboratively built college textbook.

Introduction Primary Source Reader

Volume I: To 1877

Pre-Columbian America through Reconstruction
  1. 1.Indigenous America
  2. 2.Colliding Cultures
  3. 3.British North America
  4. 4.Colonial Society
  5. 5.The American Revolution
  6. 6.A New Nation
  7. 7.The Early Republic
  8. 8.The Market Revolution
  9. 9.Democracy in America
  10. 10.Religion and Reform
  11. 11.The Cotton Revolution
  12. 12.Manifest Destiny
  13. 13.The Sectional Crisis
  14. 14.The Civil War
  15. 15.Reconstruction

Volume II: Since 1877

The Gilded Age through the 21st Century

Planned for future development. Most middle school curricula cover through Reconstruction. If there is demand for Volume II, we’ll build it — tell us you’d use it.

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