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All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day.

  • Colonial America

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    American Revolution

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    Early U.S.

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    Civil War

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    Great Depression

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    Hispanic History

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    Women’s History

  • LGBTQ+ History

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  • Native American History

    Native American History

  • Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander History

    Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander History

  • U.S. Presidents

    U.S. Presidents

  • First Ladies

    First Ladies

  • U.S. Constitution

    U.S. Constitution

  • U.S. Government and Politics

    U.S. Government and Politics

  • U.S. States

    U.S. States

  • Crime

    Crime

World History

History from countries and communities across the globe, including the world’s major wars.

  • African History

    African History

  • Asian History

    Asian History

  • Cold War

    Cold War

  • European History

    European History

  • Exploration

    Exploration

  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution

  • Latin American & Caribbean History

    Latin American & Caribbean History

  • Middle Eastern History

    Middle Eastern History

  • World War I

    World War I

  • World War II

    World War II

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

Eras & Ages

From prehistory, though antiquity and into the 21st century, all of history’s biggest chapters.

  • Prehistory

    Prehistory

  • Ancient Greece

    Ancient Greece

  • Ancient Egypt

    Ancient Egypt

  • Ancient China

    Ancient China

  • Ancient Middle East

    Ancient Middle East

  • Ancient Americas

    Ancient Americas

  • Ancient Rome

    Ancient Rome

  • Middle Ages

    Middle Ages

  • Renaissance

    Renaissance

  • 19th Century

    19th Century

  • 20th Century

    20th Century

  • 21st Century

    21st Century

Culture & Tradition

The stories behind the faiths, food, entertainment and holidays that shape our world.

  • Arts & Entertainment

    Arts & Entertainment

  • Food

    Food

  • Holidays

    Holidays

  • Landmarks

    Landmarks

  • Mysteries & Folklore

    Mysteries & Folklore

  • Religion

    Religion

  • Sports

    Sports

Science & Innovation

The pivotal discoveries, visionary inventors and natural phenomena that impacted history.

  • Inventions & Science

    Inventions & Science

  • Natural Disasters & Environment

    Natural Disasters & Environment

  • Space Exploration

    Space Exploration

  • Archaeology

    Archaeology

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Cupid and other cherubs.
Valentine's Day

Who Is Cupid?

And how did he become the unofficial mascot of Valentine's Day?

Betsey Ross sewing the American Flag.
American Revolution

Did Betsy Ross Really Make the First American Flag?

The well-known story that Ross sewed the country's first flag at the behest of George Washington may be apocryphal.

Nostradamus
Mysteries & Folklore

5 Things You May Not Know About Nostradamus

Explore a few little-known facts about this wildly popular seer.

History of M&M's
Inventions & Science

Six Times M&Ms Made History

The beloved chocolate candies have been to war and space and back again—and for more than 10 years the red ones went missing in action.

Your Victory Garden WWII poster
World War I

America’s Patriotic Victory Gardens

During both World Wars, America's agricultural production became a powerful military tool.

War Ration Book, food rationing WWII
World War I

Food Rationing in Wartime America

World War I Following nearly three years of intense combat since the onset of World War I, America’s allies in Europe were facing starvation. Farms had either been transformed into battlefields or had been left to languish as agricultural workers were forced into warfare, and disruptions in transportation made the distribution of imported food extremely […]

Battle of Crécy. (Credit: Public Domain)
Middle Ages

How long was the Hundred Years’ War?

The series of intermittent conflicts between France and England that took place during the 14th and 15th centuries wasn’t classified as the “Hundred Years’ War” until 1823. Traditionally, the war is said to have begun in 1337 when Philip VI attempted to reclaim Guyenne (part of the region of Aquitaine in southwestern France) from King […]

Operation Paperclip
Cold War

What Was Operation Paperclip?

This controversial top-secret U.S. intelligence program brought Nazi German scientists to America to harness their brain power for Cold War initiatives.

A map showing the westward trail from Missouri to Oregon.
19th Century

Was the Oregon Trail a Real Trail?

Even before Oregon Country—the disputed area claimed in the early 1800s by both Great Britain and the United States—was officially claimed by Congress as a United States territory in 1846, pioneers had been traveling west to explore its bounty. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had arrived at the Pacific Ocean in 1805, but the route […]

Illustration of a meeting of Molly Maguire men.
19th Century

Who Were the Molly Maguires?

In the latter half of the 19th century, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, was an area rife with violence. Between 1861 and 1875, a series of violent assaults, arsons and murders was blamed on a secret society of Irish immigrants known as the Molly Maguires. The group had originally emerged in north-central Ireland in the 1840s as […]

U.S. Presidents

Thomas Jefferson: America’s Pioneering Gourmand

Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, third president of the United States, appropriator of the Louisiana Purchase, gastronome…?

Benedict Arnold
American Revolution

What does it mean to call someone a “Benedict Arnold”?

Shortly after the Revolutionary War broke out in April of 1775, Benedict Arnold set out as captain of the Connecticut Militia Company to join the Continental Army in Massachusetts. Together with Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, Arnold captured Fort Ticonderoga in New York from the British and, later, led a grueling expedition to […]

European History

Why do actors avoid the word “Macbeth”?

If you’ve ever had a career in the arts, or know someone who has, you are likely aware that saying the word “Macbeth” inside a theatre is strictly taboo unless one is rehearsing or in the midst of performing Shakespeare’s dark tragedy. Doing so is almost universally believed to bring about bad luck or even […]

Elevators
Inventions & Science

Who Invented the Elevator?

Although elevators may seem like a modern invention, devices used to transport people or goods vertically have been around for thousands of years. According to the writings of Vitruvius, the Greek mathematician Archimedes created a primitive elevator in 236 B.C. that was operated by hoisting ropes wound around a drum and rotated by manpower applied […]

Greek Art, Slab with inscription at Phidias Workshop ruins, built in 430 BC to house the statue of Zeus, In the fifth century, Theodosius II turned the building into an early Christian church, Olympia, Greece.
Inventions & Science

Who Created the First Alphabet?

The first writing system is believed to have developed during the second millennium B.C.

A young girl sits on top of her bed, reading a Mother Goose storybook.
Mysteries & Folklore

Was there a real Mother Goose?

If you’ve ever visited the Old Granary Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts, you may have stumbled upon the tombstone of Mary Goose, a woman believed by some to be the infamous author of countless cherished nursery rhymes: Mother Goose. Visitors toss coins at her tombstone, presumably to garner a bit of good luck, but the […]

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