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#Modern America

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People (12)
Alexander Graham Bell
Scottish-American inventor of the telephone, 1847–1922
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017
Betty Friedan
Author of The Feminine Mystique and Founder of Second-Wave Feminism, 1921–2006
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001
Bonnie and Clyde
The Depression-era couple whose two-year crime spree ended in a Louisiana ambush
Donald Trump
45th and 47th President of the United States
George H.W. Bush
41st President of the United States, 1989–1993
George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States, 2001–2009
Gerald Ford
38th President of the United States, 1974–1977
Jimmy Carter
39th President of the United States, whose post-presidency eclipsed his time in office
Joe Biden
46th President of the United States, 2021–2025
Ronald Reagan
40th President of the United States, 1981–1989
Places (6)
Cape Canaveral
The Florida Launch Site That Has Carried American Ambitions Into Space Since 1950
Dallas
The city where Kennedy was killed and the Sun Belt came of age
Ellis Island
The New York Harbor immigration station that processed 12 million arrivals, 1892–1954
Los Angeles
The city that became America's second metropolis by inventing itself from scratch
Seattle
Gateway to Alaska, birthplace of Boeing, and capital of the Pacific Northwest
Silicon Valley
How a stretch of California orchards became the engine of the digital age
Events (19)
ARPANET and the Birth of the Internet
The Cold War research network that grew into a global communications system
COVID-19 Pandemic
The 2020–2023 public health crisis that killed over a million Americans and transformed national life
Death of Osama bin Laden
The 2011 raid that ended a decade-long manhunt
Great Recession of 2008
The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression — and the collapse that remade American politics
Hurricane Katrina
The 2005 storm and flood that devastated New Orleans and exposed a broken federal safety net
January 6 Capitol Attack
The 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol that interrupted the certification of the presidential election
Kent State Shootings
The 1970 killing of four students by National Guard troops that broke the antiwar movement open
Los Angeles Riots (1992)
Six days of urban unrest following the acquittal of officers who beat Rodney King
Occupy Wall Street
The 2011 protest that put economic inequality on the agenda
Oklahoma City Bombing
The Deadliest Act of Domestic Terrorism in American History, April 19, 1995
Reagan Assassination Attempt
The 1981 shooting that nearly killed a president and reshaped gun law
September 11 Attacks
The deadliest terrorist attack on American soil, 2001
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
The 1986 explosion that killed seven astronauts and shook America's faith in its space program
Stonewall Riots
The 1969 Greenwich Village uprising that launched the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement
The Moon Landing
Apollo 11 and humanity's first steps on another world, July 1969
The Space Shuttle
The reusable spacecraft that defined American spaceflight for three decades
Three Mile Island
The 1979 nuclear accident that ended the American nuclear power era
Trump Assassination Attempt (2024)
The July 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania shooting during the presidential campaign
U.S.–Iran Military Strikes
From the killing of Soleimani in 2020 to direct strikes on Iran's nuclear sites in 2025–2026
Documents (1)
Obergefell v. Hodges
The 2015 Supreme Court decision that established the constitutional right to same-sex marriage
Concepts (6)
Black Lives Matter
The movement against racism and police violence born of a hashtag
Suburbanization
How Postwar America Built a New Geography — and Who It Left Out
The Counterculture of the 1960s
The cultural rebellion that challenged postwar conformity and permanently altered American life
The Environmental Movement
From Theodore Roosevelt's conservation to Rachel Carson's alarm to the unresolved politics of climate
U.S.–China Relations
From Open Door to trade war — the relationship that will define the 21st century
U.S.–Mexico Relations
A 1,954-mile border, a war that one side calls an invasion, and two centuries of inseparable entanglement
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