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People (10)
Dolley Madison
The First Lady who saved Washington's portrait and defined the social power of the presidency
Emilio Aguinaldo
The first president of the Philippine Republic, ally then adversary of the United States
George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States, 2001–2009
James K. Polk
11th President of the United States and the architect of continental expansion
James Madison
Father of the Constitution and fourth President of the United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Texas dealmaker who built the Great Society and broke himself on Vietnam
Tecumseh
Shawnee leader who built the most powerful Indigenous confederacy in American history
William McKinley
25th President of the United States, who led America into empire and was killed for it
Winfield Scott
General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army and the Soldier Who Defined an Era, 1786–1866
Zachary Taylor
12th President of the United States, a war hero who died before the crisis could break
Places (3)
Fort McHenry
The Baltimore harbor fortress whose defense in 1814 inspired the national anthem
New Orleans
The city where France, Spain, Africa, and America collided to produce a culture unlike any other
The Philippines
The Spanish colony that became America's largest overseas possession, 1898-1946
Eras (2)
Revolutionary Era
The 25 years that broke from Britain and built a republic, 1775–1800
World War II
The global conflict that made America a superpower and reshaped the world order, 1941–1945
Events (35)
American Civil War
The 1861–1865 war over slavery and union that remade the nation
Battle of Brandywine
The defeat that opened the road to Philadelphia, 1777
Battle of Cowpens
Daniel Morgan's masterpiece, January 1781
Battle of Guilford Courthouse
The victory that cost Cornwallis his army, 1781
Battle of Kings Mountain
The backcountry victory that turned the Southern war, 1780
Battle of Long Island
The largest battle of the Revolution — and a narrow escape, 1776
Battle of Monmouth
The army that came out of Valley Forge, 1778
Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson's lopsided 1815 victory — fought two weeks after the war had already ended
Battle of Princeton
Washington's second strike in ten days, January 1777
Battle of the Alamo
The 13-day siege that became a Texan rallying cry
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
The Revolution's first offensive victory, May 1775
French and Indian War
The North American theater of a world war that made the American Revolution inevitable, 1754–1763
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Atomic Bombings That Ended World War II, August 1945
Kent State Shootings
The 1970 killing of four students by National Guard troops that broke the antiwar movement open
Korean War
The "Forgotten War" that established the Cold War's logic of limited conflict, 1950–1953
Mexican-American War
The 1846–1848 war of conquest that gave the United States half a continent — and a crisis
September 11 Attacks
The deadliest terrorist attack on American soil, 2001
Spanish-American War
The 1898 war that made America an empire in four months
The Alamo
The 1836 siege that became the defining myth of Texas independence
The American Revolution
The colonial war of independence that created the United States, 1775–1783
The Burning of Washington
The only time since the Revolution a foreign power has occupied and burned the U.S. capital
The Gulf War
Kuwait, Desert Storm, and the war that stopped short, 1990-1991
The Iraq Surge
Petraeus, counterinsurgency, and the Anbar Awakening, 2007
The Iraq War
The invasion, the missing weapons, and the insurgency, 2003-2011
The Philippine-American War
The war for the Philippines that followed the war with Spain, 1899-1902
The Texas Revolution
How American settlers broke Texas away from Mexico
The Treaty of Paris (1898)
Spain gives up an empire and the United States buys the Philippines, December 1898
The War in Afghanistan
America's longest war, from the Taliban's fall to its return, 2001-2021
The Withdrawal from Afghanistan
The fall of Kabul and the end of the longest war, August 2021
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The 1848 peace that gave the United States a third of a continent — and intensified the slavery crisis
U.S.–Iran Military Strikes
From the killing of Soleimani in 2020 to direct strikes on Iran's nuclear sites in 2025–2026
Vietnam War
America's longest 20th-century conflict and the war that broke the postwar consensus, 1955–1975
War of 1812
The strange second war with Britain that nobody won — and that made America a nation
World War I
The European catastrophe that pulled America in, remade the world order, and produced the next war
World War II
America's 1941–1945 war that defeated the Axis and made it a superpower
Documents (4)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The 1964 Congressional Authorization That Escalated the Vietnam War
Pentagon Papers
The leaked Defense Department history that revealed the government had systematically lied about Vietnam
The Teller Amendment
Congress disclaims any intention of annexing Cuba, April 1898
War Powers Resolution
Congress's 1973 attempt to reclaim the power to declare war from the executive branch
Concepts (4)
American Imperialism
The expansion of U.S. power, territory, and influence beyond its continental borders
The Domino Theory
The Cold War premise that communist takeover in one country would trigger a regional chain reaction
U.S.–Mexico Relations
A 1,954-mile border, a war that one side calls an invasion, and two centuries of inseparable entanglement
Yellow Journalism
The Sensational Press That Helped Start a War and Shaped American Media
Symbols (1)
The Star-Spangled Banner
The poem written during a battle that became the national anthem
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