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TIME PERIODS for AMERICAN HISTORY
Click on the links, below, for books and eBooks about, or set in, each time period. Use sidebar limiters or added keyword search terms on the results screen to focus your search. (The number of search results [April 2020] is listed next to each entry for comparison purposes; current results may vary.) Primary time period divisions for American history are bolded.
MAJOR TIME PERIODS
1600-1775 : American Colonial Period
1775-1783 : American Revolutionary Period
1783-1865 : Confederation Period
1861-1865 : Civil War Period
1865-1877 : Reconstruction Period
1865-1918 : Reconstruction Era
1914-1918 : World War I
1918-1945: Post WW 1, Great Depression and WW II
1933-1945 : World War II | 1933-1945 United States : World War II
1945-1953: Cold War Period
1945-1989 : Cold War Era
TIME PERIOD SUBDIVISIONS
Also:
United States AND 17th Century
United States AND 18th Century | United States AND 18th Century AND Social Conditions
United States AND 19th Century | United States AND 19th Century AND Social Conditions
United States AND 19th Century | United States AND 20th Century AND Social Conditions
United States AND 19th Century | United States AND 21st Century AND Social Conditions
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