Are the topics covered in the redesigned version the same as the classic for each year? I was wondering if it would work to use redesigned for some years and classic for others (for cost issues).

Thank you

I think it would work. I compared the topic list from classic to redesigned and they matched up really well. This will seem like a terribly long list, but I will try to condense the classic topic list so you can print it out and compare to Y3RD Topics that are listed on that site.

w1 Review of y2 topics, people themes
w2 Adam's presidency, Robert Fulton, French Revolution, Absolutism and the terror
w3 Napoleon
w4 Life in Europe during the Napoleonic Wars, Romanticism
w5 Industrial Revolution
w6 Constitution
w7 Jefferson Presidency, Lewis and Clark
w8 War of 1812
w9 Simon Bolivar, South Am., Congress of Vienna 1815
w10 Monroe Presidency and doctrine
w11 William Carey Hinduism
w12 John Quincy Adams, Nationalism Sectionalism
w13 Jackson Presidency and democracy
w14 Australia, european society
w15 Overview of American Expansion
w16 Manifest Destiny Pioneers
w17 Polk presidency, Mex/Am war
w18 Gold rush , pony express, telegraph uprisings, nationalism, Marx and Communism
w19 Hudson Taylor,china, Japan, opium wars
w20 Crimean War, Sardinia, Unification of Italy
w21 Underground Railroad, Buchanan presidency, a nation dividing
w22 Civil War Lincoln presidency
w23 Civil war,
w24 Transcontinental Railroad, Reconstuction, Johnson and Grant presidencies
w25 Plains Indians
w26 Edison, Bell Unification of Germany and Prussian Wars
w27 African history, Livingstone, Slessor
w28 Africa, Imperialism, Europe Imperialism
w29 Victorian England, British Empire
w30 Impressionism anc Culture; America
w31 Immigration, Statur of Liberty, Social Darwinism,Laissez Fairre Economics
w32 Immigrants; Carnegie, Rockefeller, Robber Barons or Captains of Industry
w33 Immigration and Ellis Island, Inventors, Labor Issues and Trust Busters
w34 George Washington Carver, Populists, Progressives and Moderns
w35 Scientific advances; Pasteur, Curie, Results of growth: alcoholism, poverty. Salvation Army, Spurgeon, the Church makes a difference
w36 Spanish Am War, Roosevelt Hawaii, Boxer Rebellion, Boer war

Hope this helps!

Thank you SO MUCH. That was incredibly informative.