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American Culture and Society
American Culture and Society course delivered fully online through immersive VR and AI-enhanced instruction.
1 YearU.S. HistoryShared catalog edition
Course sequence
Seven thematic units tracing how American identity is constructed, contested, and remade through race, gender, class, religion, media, and immigration. CrashCourse US History is the spine; specialist deep-dives surface from PBS, Stanford, and contemporary public-history channels.
UNIT 1Defining American Culture: Myths, Exceptionalism, the American Dream
- American exceptionalism
- Frontier myth
- American Dream
- National identity
Learning resources (9)
Introduction to Native American History: Ep 1 of Crash Course Native American History ↗
CrashCourse
Developing an American identity, 1800-1848 | US history | Khan Academy ↗
Khan Academy
Visually Documenting American Identity, Then and Now | Courtney McNeil | TEDxSavannah ↗
TEDx Talks
21. Democratic Statecraft: Tocqueville's Democracy in America ↗
YaleCourses
Lawrence W. Reed: What Alexis de Tocqueville Teaches Us About American Exceptionalism — Can It Last? ↗
Foundation for Economic Education
Tocqueville's doctrine of self-interest rightly understood ↗
Acton Institute
SOCIOLOGY - Alexis De Tocqueville ↗
The School of Life
The Political Implications of Mixed Race, Transgender, and Other Identities ↗
Stanford
J D Porter and Hannah Walser: Text Mining for Race and Ethnicity in American Fiction: 1789-1964 ↗
CESTA Stanford
UNIT 2Race and Ethnicity: Slavery, Civil Rights, Immigration
- Slavery and Reconstruction
- Jim Crow
- Civil Rights Movement
- Immigration waves
- Black Lives Matter
Learning resources (9)
Student Civil Rights Activism: Crash Course Black American History #37 ↗
CrashCourse
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | National Constitution Center | Khan Academy ↗
Khan Academy
Civil Rights and the 1950s: Crash Course US History #39 ↗
CrashCourse
History of the Civil Rights Movement ↗
WatchMojo.com
The CIVIL RIGHTS Movement in the 1960s [APUSH Review] ↗
Heimler's History
✊🏾 Eyes on the Prize – Part 6: Bridge to Freedom (1965) ↗
Construction Queen Consulting & Education
Henry Louis Gates: Genealogy and African American History ↗
University of California Television (UCTV)
Eyes on the Prize | American Black Journal Clip ↗
Detroit PBS
Lecture 6 | African-American Freedom Struggle (Stanford) ↗
Stanford
UNIT 3Gender, Sexuality, and the Family
- Suffrage
- Second-wave feminism
- LGBTQ+ rights
- Family structures
Learning resources (10)
Women in the 19th Century: Crash Course US History #16 ↗
CrashCourse
Women's Suffrage: Crash Course US History #31 ↗
CrashCourse
A Brief History - Women's Suffrage ↗
A Brief Lesson in History
Women's Suffrage Movement ↗
Russell's History
Marsha P. Johnson and the Stonewall Rebellion: Crash Course Black American History #41 ↗
CrashCourse
The Civil Rights Movement EXPANDS [APUSH Review] ↗
Heimler's History
Roe v. Wade: Privacy and Liberty | The U.S. Supreme Court ↗
Hillsdale College
Roe v. Wade | Civil liberties and civil rights | US government and civics | Khan Academy ↗
Khan Academy
Teaching LGBT Studies at Yale: Maria Trumpler, Sr Lecturer in Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies ↗
Yale University
20. The Classical Feminist Tradition ↗
YaleCourses
UNIT 4Class, Labor, and Capitalism
- Gilded Age
- Labor movement
- New Deal
- Post-industrial America
- Inequality
Learning resources (10)
Gilded Age Politics: Crash Course US History #26 ↗
CrashCourse
The Gilded Age part 1 | The Gilded Age (1865-1898) | US History | Khan Academy ↗
Khan Academy
The New Deal: Crash Course US History #34 ↗
CrashCourse
What few people know about the program that "saved" America - Meg Jacobs ↗
TED-Ed
The Rise of INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM [APUSH Review] ↗
Heimler's History
How Labor Unions Shape Society | Margaret Levi | TED ↗
TED
United States Labor Movement, 1969 ↗
American Archives
The History of Labor Unions ↗
Alex Cullison
Plagues & economic collapse by Ian Morris ↗
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Industrial Economy: Crash Course US History #23 ↗
CrashCourse
UNIT 5Media, Entertainment, and Popular Culture
- Radio → TV → internet
- Hollywood
- Music genres (jazz, rock, hip-hop)
- Sports
- Mass media
Learning resources (10)
The Roaring 20's: Crash Course US History #32 ↗
CrashCourse
What is a main idea? | Reading | Khan Academy ↗
Khan Academy
Introduction to Media Literacy: Crash Course Media Literacy #1 ↗
CrashCourse
How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education | Sal Khan | TED ↗
TED
Rap and Hip Hop: Crash Course Black American History #47 ↗
CrashCourse
When did baseball become baseball? ↗
The Baseball Professor
The Rise of the Moguls: The Men Who Built Hollywood | Historical Documentary | Lucasfilm ↗
Lucasfilm
01 Gumbo—Beginnings ↗
EMIS TV
Will the UAE Be the Capital of Arab Pop Culture Over the Next Decade? ↗
NYUAD Institute
The Cultural Roots of Tribalism: What Boys + Young Men Teach Us w/ Niobe Way, mod by Seth Halvorson ↗
Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
UNIT 6Religion, Counterculture, and Social Movements
- Great Awakenings
- 1960s counterculture
- Religious diversity
- Protest movements
Learning resources (10)
Civil Rights and the 1950s: Crash Course US History #39 ↗
CrashCourse
Continuity and change in the postwar era | Period 8: 1945-1980 | AP US History | Khan Academy ↗
Khan Academy
Youth and the COUNTERCULTURE of the 1960s [APUSH Review] ↗
Heimler's History
This Week in Thoughtful 4: Where is the Counter-Culture? ↗
Zarathustra's Serpent
The 1960s in America: Crash Course US History #40 ↗
CrashCourse
The 1960s Rebellions Began In The 1950s. Making Sense Of The 1960s Show #1. ↗
David Hoffman
1967: The Counterculture Year That Changed The World | Summer Of Love | Timeline ↗
Timeline - World History Documentaries
The Great Awakening: Spiritual Revival in Colonial America | Full Movie | Brenda Schoolfield Phd. ↗
Vision Video
"Hell," by Meghan Henning ↗
Stanford Religious Studies
How Islam Began, Fred Donner: UnCommon Core Lecture ↗
The University of Chicago
UNIT 7Globalization, Diversity, and Contemporary Identity
- Post-9/11 America
- Digital culture
- Immigration debates
- Polarization
- Identity politics
Learning resources (10)
The Roaring 20's: Crash Course US History #32 ↗
CrashCourse
Trade and tariffs | APⓇ Microeconomics | Khan Academy ↗
Khan Academy
Globalization theories | Society and Culture | MCAT | Khan Academy ↗
khanacademymedicine
Globalization explained (explainity® explainer video) ↗
explainitychannel
How Digital Culture Is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu | TED ↗
TED
How 9/11 changed America and the world ↗
TRT World
Total Collapse (Full Episode) | 9/11: One Day in America ↗
National Geographic
From Ground Zero To Global Conflict: 9/11 And The War On Terror ↗
The American Story - US History Documentaries
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER" ↗
Harvard University
Why Democracy? ↗
Institute of Politics Harvard Kennedy School