Two and a half centuries since the Declaration of Independence, told through 575 of the people, places, events, and documents that made the nation. A chronological walk from 1776 to today.
See what happened on this dayIndependence, the Revolution, and a new constitutional republic.
Expansion, industry, slavery, and the road to disunion.
The Union preserved, slavery abolished, the nation remade.
The Gilded Age, immigration, reform, and a rising world power.
Prosperity, the Great Depression, the New Deal, and global war.
Superpower rivalry, the fight for equality, and the space age.
A new economy, the end of the Cold War, the digital revolution.
Terror and response, new technologies, a changing republic.