This United States History II textbook contains fifteen modules—roughly one module per week for a 15 or 16-week semester. Some choose not to teach the Reconstruction module and save that for the second half of U.S. History. Some instructors begin this course with Module 2, having already taught about Reconstruction (Module 1) in the first half of the course. If you need to modify the pace and cover the material more quickly, the following modules work well together:

• Module 2: Industrialization and Urbanization (1870-1900) and Module 3: The Gilded Age (1870-1900)

• Module 8: The Great Depression (1929-1932) and Module 9: The New Deal Era (1932-1941)

All of the modules are comparable in size and depth, though the slightly shorter/smaller modules in the course are the following, with Module 9 being the shortest:

• Module 4: Age of Empire—American Foreign Policy (1890-1914)
• Module 7: The Jazz Age (1919-1929)
• Module 9: The New Deal Era (1932-1941)

Slightly larger modules, which may be stretched out over multiple weeks include:

• Module 2: Industrialization and Urbanization (1870-1900)
• Module 10: World War II (1941-1945)
• Module 11: Post-War Prosperity and the Cold War (1945-1960)
• Module 13: Political Storms at Home and Abroad (1968-1980)
• Module 14: From Cold War to Culture Wars (1980-2000)