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CrashCourse US History — Episode Index

Playlist: CrashCourse US History (John Green, 2013) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E9WU9TGrec (Ep 1 entry point) Total Episodes: 47 Wiki entries: See individual files in this directory

NOTE — Transcripts: Auto-generated subtitle download requires yt-dlp 2024.12+. The ThinkStation has yt-dlp 2024.04.09, which cannot extract subtitles. Run yt-dlp --update on T480, then: 

cd ~/sda-wiki/crashcourse/us-history/
yt-dlp --write-auto-subs --sub-lang en --skip-download --playlist-end 47 \
  "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E9WU9TGrec&list=<USH-PLAYLIST-ID>" \
  -o "%(playlist_index)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s"
python3 ../vtt_to_markdown.py .

First 5 Episodes (Priority for Phase 2)

# Title YouTube ID Era / Period USH Standard Focus
1 The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards 6E9WU9TGrec Colonial Era Colonization, first contact, Spanish Empire in Americas
2 The Natives and the English XoNSCRsSM5U Colonial Era English colonization, Native displacement, cultural conflict
3 When is Thanksgiving? Qv5DGKeFN7k Colonial Era Puritan settlement, myth vs. history of Thanksgiving
4 The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies e09YZRtPNPE Colonial Era Religious diversity in colonies, gender roles, Dutch influence
5 The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening 4GdpBMcNqIs Colonial Era Seven Years War, religious revival, colonial identity

All Episodes with Wiki Entries

File Topic USH Unit Status
ep-ush-01 Black Legend, Native Americans & Spaniards Colonial stub
ep-ush-02 Natives and the English Colonial stub
ep-ush-03 When is Thanksgiving? Colonial stub
ep-ush-04 Quakers, Dutch & the Ladies Colonial stub
ep-ush-05 Seven Years War & Great Awakening Colonial stub
ep-ush-06 Industrial Revolution & Labor Unit 1 ✅ complete
ep-ush-07 Progressive Era & Muckrakers Unit 1 ✅ complete
ep-ush-08 America and World War I Unit 2 ✅ complete
ep-ush-09 The Great Depression & New Deal Unit 3 ✅ complete
ep-ush-10 WWII and the American Home Front Unit 4 ✅ complete
ep-ush-11 The Civil Rights Movement Unit 6 ✅ complete
ep-ush-12 Vietnam and Watergate Unit 7 ✅ complete
ep-ush-13 American Imperialism Unit 2 ✅ complete
ep-ush-14 The Roaring 20s Unit 3 ✅ complete
ep-ush-15 WWII: The Road to War Unit 4 ✅ complete
ep-ush-16 WWII: The Pacific and the Atomic Bomb Unit 4 ✅ complete
ep-ush-17 The Cold War Unit 5 ✅ complete
ep-ush-18 Reagan and the Rise of Conservatism Unit 8 ✅ complete
ep-ush-19 Post-Cold War America and 9/11 Unit 9 ✅ complete