U.S. History
All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day.
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From prehistory, though antiquity and into the 21st century, all of history’s biggest chapters.
Culture & Tradition
The stories behind the faiths, food, entertainment and holidays that shape our world.
Science & Innovation
The pivotal discoveries, visionary inventors and natural phenomena that impacted history.
How would you sum up the American Revolution in just one word?
The Revolution has been won, but for Washington, the problems, even within his own army, are just beginning.
General Washington led 20,000 American and French troops to victory at Valley Forge.
Americans owe much of the U.S. financial system—including a unified national mint—to Alexander Hamilton.
To many in the Continental Congress, war was unthinkable. So why did they finally create this revolutionary document?
