Pearl Harbor attack
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United…
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United…
The Truman Doctrine, announced by U.S. President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, was a pivotal policy in the…
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on December 6, 1865, is a landmark amendment that abolished slavery…
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a transformative period in American history, marked by the discovery of gold at Sutter’s…
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a pivotal event in the American Civil Rights Movement, lasting from December 5, 1955, to…
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, occurred on the evening of April 14, 1865,…
The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, is one of the most significant documents in…
“Franksgiving” is the nickname given to a controversy that arose in the United States in 1939, when President Franklin D….
The Panic of 1857 was a significant economic downturn that affected the United States and parts of Europe. Triggered by…
The Oregon Treaty of 1846 was a pivotal agreement between the United States and Great Britain that resolved a long-standing…
The Gadsden Purchase of 1854 was a significant land acquisition in the history of the United States, adding approximately 29,670…
The Hollywood Ten were a group of screenwriters, directors, and producers in the American film industry who were blacklisted during…
The Ostend Manifesto was a controversial diplomatic document issued in 1854, during the administration of President Franklin Pierce, that advocated…
The Iran–Contra Affair was a major political scandal in the United States during the 1980s. It involved the covert sale…
The Mayflower Compact is a foundational document in American history, often considered the first governing agreement of what would later…
The sinking of the Essex by a sperm whale is one of the most remarkable and tragic events in maritime…
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was a controversial law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, designed to…
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five legislative acts passed by the U.S. Congress aimed at resolving sectional…
The Mexican-American War (1846–1848) was a pivotal conflict between the United States and Mexico, which significantly shaped the borders and…
The Black Hawk War was a brief but significant conflict between the United States and Native American tribes, primarily the…
The Second Seminole War (1835–1842) was a prolonged and costly conflict between the United States and the Seminole Native American…
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was a pivotal piece of U.S. legislation that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska…
The Virginia Peace Conference of 1861 was a last-ditch effort to avert the impending American Civil War by seeking a…
The Treaty of Wanghia, signed on July 3, 1844, was the first formal treaty between the United States and the…
The annexation of Texas was a pivotal event in U.S. history that occurred in 1845 when the Republic of Texas…
The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a 30-second shootout between lawmen and outlaws that took place on October 26,…
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, was a pivotal encounter in the American Civil…
The Point Four Program was an international aid initiative launched by the United States in 1949, primarily aimed at providing…
The Ruby Ridge incident was a deadly confrontation between federal agents and a family of survivalists, the Weaver family, in…
The American Civil War (1861–1865) was one of the most defining events in the history of the United States. It…
The Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire was one of the deadliest fires in U.S. history, occurring on November 28, 1942, in…
The Waco Siege was a 51-day standoff between the Branch Davidians, a religious group led by David Koresh, and federal…
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 is one of the most controversial and significant pieces of legislation in U.S. history….
The Panic of 1837 was a significant financial crisis in the United States that triggered a prolonged economic depression lasting…
Timothy McVeigh (1968–2001) was an American domestic terrorist responsible for carrying out the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995,…
The Battle of New Orleans, fought on January 8, 1815, was the final major battle of the War of 1812…
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire was one of the most devastating natural disasters in American history, striking the…
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the most violent and devastating racial conflicts in American history, resulting in…
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a pivotal confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during…
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a significant legislative agreement in the early 19th century aimed at resolving tensions between…
The Gabriel Prosser Slave Uprising (often called Gabriel’s Rebellion) was a planned insurrection by enslaved people in Virginia in 1800,…
The Monroe Doctrine, articulated by President James Monroe on December 2, 1823, is a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy that…
The Battle of Trenton took place on December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. It was a pivotal and…
The Era of Good Feelings is a term used to describe a period in U.S. history that lasted from approximately…
The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806), also known as the Corps of Discovery, was a pivotal exploration mission commissioned by…
The Louisiana Purchase, completed in 1803, was a pivotal event in the history of the United States, marking one of…
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on May 17, 1954, is one of…
The United States Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776, is one of the most important documents in American…
The Manhattan Project was a secret U.S. government research initiative during World War II that aimed to develop the world’s…
The Clifford-Elsey Report, completed in September 1946, was a critical document in shaping the early Cold War policies of the…
The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in 1787–1788…
The Constitutional Convention of 1787, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 25 to September 17, 1787, was one of the…
The Great Fire of New York in 1835 was one of the most devastating fires in the city’s history, destroying…
The Iroquois Theater fire occurred on December 30, 1903, in Chicago, Illinois, and remains one of the deadliest theater fires…
The Salem witch trials of 1692 are among the most infamous episodes in American history, when a wave of mass…
The Jay Treaty, formally known as the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, was an agreement between the United States…
The Pentagon Papers refers to a top-secret U.S. Department of Defense study on the political and military involvement of the…
The Parkland High School Shooting refers to the mass shooting that occurred on February 14, 2018, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas…
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting took place on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, and remains one of the…
The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which granted women the right to vote, was a monumental achievement in…