U.S. History
All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day.
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The pivotal discoveries, visionary inventors and natural phenomena that impacted history.
Giles Corey was accused of witchcraft and crushed to death by the sheriff of Salem. With his dying words, he cursed both the sheriff and the town.
Rampant fear among the Puritans in the New England village of Salem sparked attacks against anyone who was suspected of witchcraft.
In the colonial era, people used hard apple cider as payment.
Find out what it took to be a settler in the early-American colony of Jamestown.
The U.S. is 50 states strong today, but it began as 13 small colonies.