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People
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Aaron Burr
Third Vice President of the United States — and Alexander Hamilton's killer
Andrew Jackson
Frontier general, champion of the common white man, and 7th President of the United States
Benedict Arnold
Revolutionary War hero turned traitor, 1741–1801
Black Hawk
Sauk leader whose 1832 return to Illinois became the last armed Native resistance east of the Mississippi
Chief Joseph
Nez Perce leader whose 1877 flight became a symbol of Native resistance
Clara Barton
Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross
Crazy Horse
The Lakota war leader who defended the Plains and never surrendered to the reservation
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Allied Commander, 34th President, and the man who warned America about itself
George S. Patton
America's most aggressive — and most controversial — World War II commander
George Washington
Commander of the Continental Army and First President of the United States
Geronimo
The Apache leader whose final surrender in 1886 ended the last armed Native resistance in the American Southwest
Grace Hopper
Pioneer of computer programming and inventor of the first compiler
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America, 1861–1865
Nathan Hale
Continental Army Spy and American Martyr, 1776
Nathanael Greene
Self-taught general who drove the British from the American South
Paul Revere
Boston silversmith and the most famous midnight rider of the American Revolution
Robert E. Lee
Confederate general and the South's most celebrated — and most contested — military commander
Sam Houston
President of Texas, U.S. Senator, and the man who refused to take the Confederacy's oath
Sitting Bull
Hunkpapa Lakota chief who united the Plains nations against American expansion
Tecumseh
Shawnee leader who built the most powerful Indigenous confederacy in American history
The Marquis de Lafayette
The young French aristocrat who became a hero of the American Revolution
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Confederate General, Army of Northern Virginia, 1861–1863
Ulysses S. Grant
Commanding general of the Union Army and 18th President of the United States
William Henry Harrison
9th President of the United States, 1841
William Tecumseh Sherman
Union general whose March to the Sea broke the Confederacy's will to fight
Winfield Scott
General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army and the Soldier Who Defined an Era, 1786–1866
Zebulon Pike
The Army officer who explored the southern Louisiana Purchase and never climbed Pikes Peak
Places
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Appomattox Court House
The Virginia village where the Civil War effectively ended, April 9, 1865
Cape Canaveral
The Florida Launch Site That Has Carried American Ambitions Into Space Since 1950
Fort McHenry
The Baltimore harbor fortress whose defense in 1814 inspired the national anthem
Fort Sumter
The South Carolina fort whose bombardment started the Civil War
Gettysburg
The Pennsylvania town where the Civil War's deadliest battle was fought
Little Bighorn
The Montana battlefield where Lakota and Cheyenne warriors defeated the 7th Cavalry
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
The Oglala Lakota reservation in South Dakota — site of Wounded Knee
The Pentagon
The headquarters of American military power — and a symbol of it
The U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis — where the Navy and Marine Corps train their officers
Valley Forge
The Pennsylvania encampment where the Continental Army survived its darkest winter
West Point
The military academy that trained the officers who led America's wars
Eras
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The Civil War
The conflict that tore the United States apart and abolished slavery, 1861–1865
The Cold War
The ideological standoff between the United States and Soviet Union, 1945–1991
World War II
The global conflict that made America a superpower and reshaped the world order, 1941–1945
Events
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American Civil War
The 1861–1865 war over slavery and union that remade the nation
Battle of Antietam
The bloodiest single day in American military history, September 17, 1862
Battle of Brandywine
The defeat that opened the road to Philadelphia, 1777
Battle of Bull Run
The First Great Battle of the Civil War, July 1861
Battle of Bunker Hill
The 1775 bloodbath that proved American militiamen could stand against British regulars
Battle of Chancellorsville
Lee's tactical masterpiece — and the shot that cost him his most dangerous general
Battle of Cowpens
Daniel Morgan's masterpiece, January 1781
Battle of Gettysburg
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War, July 1–3, 1863
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 Lexington and Concord
The First Shots of the American Revolution, April 1775
Battle of Long Island
The largest battle of the Revolution — and a narrow escape, 1776
Battle of Midway
The naval battle that permanently shifted the balance of power in the Pacific, 1942
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 Saratoga
The 1777 American victory that brought France into the Revolutionary War
Battle of the Alamo
The 13-day siege that became a Texan rallying cry
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler's Last Gamble in the West, December 1944 – January 1945
Battle of Trenton
Washington's Christmas Crossing and the Revolution's Turning Point
Battle of Vicksburg
The 47-Day Siege That Split the Confederacy in Two
Battle of Yorktown
The 1781 siege that ended the Revolutionary War and secured American independence
Bay of Pigs
The CIA's Failed Invasion of Cuba and Kennedy's Defining Early Crisis, April 1961
Berlin Airlift
The 11-Month Mission That Defied the Soviet Blockade, 1948–1949
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
The Revolution's first offensive victory, May 1775
Cuban Missile Crisis
Thirteen days in 1962 when nuclear war became a real possibility
D-Day
The June 1944 Allied invasion that broke Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall and sealed the war's outcome in the West
Death of Osama bin Laden
The 2011 raid that ended a decade-long manhunt
Fort Pillow Massacre
The Confederate Slaughter of Black Union Soldiers, April 12, 1864
French and Indian War
The North American theater of a world war that made the American Revolution inevitable, 1754–1763
Korean War
The "Forgotten War" that established the Cold War's logic of limited conflict, 1950–1953
March to the Sea
Sherman's 1864 campaign of deliberate destruction that broke the Confederacy's will to fight
Mexican-American War
The 1846–1848 war of conquest that gave the United States half a continent — and a crisis
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack of December 7, 1941, that brought America into World War II
Sand Creek Massacre
The Slaughter of a Cheyenne and Arapaho Village Under a Flag of Truce, November 1864
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 Bonus Army March
The WWI veterans' encampment that Hoover destroyed — and Roosevelt studied carefully
The Burning of Washington
The only time since the Revolution a foreign power has occupied and burned the U.S. capital
The Quasi-War
The undeclared naval war that nearly broke the Franco-American alliance
The Star-Spangled Banner
The poem written during a battle that became the national anthem
The Texas Revolution
How American settlers broke Texas away from Mexico
The U-2 Incident
The 1960 spy-plane shootdown that wrecked a superpower summit
The Zimmermann Telegram
The intercepted 1917 message that helped push America into World War I
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
Wounded Knee Massacre
The 1890 killing of at least 250 Lakota men, women, and children that ended the Indian Wars
Documents
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National Security Act of 1947
The law that created the CIA, NSC, and Joint Chiefs — and built the permanent architecture of the Cold War
North Atlantic Treaty
The 1949 alliance document that reversed 150 years of American foreign policy
Concepts
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Military-Industrial Complex
Eisenhower's Warning About the Alliance Between Defense Industry and Government Power
NATO
The alliance that deterred a war for 40 years — and redefined itself when that war never came
Nuclear Weapons
The weapon that redefined war, power, and the survival of nations
The CIA
America's foreign spy agency — intelligence, covert action, and controversy
The United States Armed Forces
From a citizen militia to the most powerful military on earth
U.S. Intelligence
The secret agencies built to spy, protect, and sometimes overreach
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