Tennessee State Library and Archives: Teaching American History: Eras

Eras

Pinson Indian Mounds

1. Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1660)

Map of Virginia, Marylandia, and Carolina

2. Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)

Battle of Tallushatchee

3. Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820)

McKenney-Hall Native American print

4. Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Ammons brothers,
C.S.A.

5. Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Tennessee Centennial

6. The Development of the Industrial U.S. (1870-1900)

Anti-suffragists in Tennessee

7. The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)

Share Your Car Broadside

8. The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

Slicing an "atomic cake"

9. Postwar United States (1945-1970)

President Reagan during his visit to Nashville

10. Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)