#War

49 entries

People (9)

The First Lady who saved Washington's portrait and defined the social power of the presidency

43rd President of the United States, 2001–2009

11th President of the United States and the architect of continental expansion

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

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

General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army and the Soldier Who Defined an Era, 1786–1866

12th President of the United States, a war hero who died before the crisis could break

Places (2)

The Baltimore harbor fortress whose defense in 1814 inspired the national anthem

The city where France, Spain, Africa, and America collided to produce a culture unlike any other

Eras (2)

Revolutionary Era

The 25 years that broke from Britain and built a republic, 1775–1800

The global conflict that made America a superpower and reshaped the world order, 1941–1945

Events (29)

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

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 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 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

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

America's longest 20th-century conflict and the war that broke the postwar consensus, 1955–1975

The strange second war with Britain that nobody won — and that made America a nation

The European catastrophe that pulled America in, remade the world order, and produced the next war

America's 1941–1945 war that defeated the Axis and made it a superpower

Documents (3)

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

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

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