Work, family, faith, migration, and how Americans actually lived.
29 entries, in chronological order
c. 21,000 BCE (disputed)·Event
How and when the first people arrived — a question science is still answering
c. 850–1150·Place
Ceremonial center of the ancestral Pueblo world
c. 1050–1350·Place
The largest city in North America north of Mexico before 1492
c. 1180–1300·Place
Cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Pueblo people
1492 – c. 1600s·Concept
The transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the hemispheres after 1492
1619–1865·Concept
The institution that shaped the nation’s economy, politics, and conflicts for nearly 250 years
Aug 1619·Event
1619: Enslaved Angolans arrive at Point Comfort
Dec 1620 – Mar 22, 1621·Event
The Pilgrims’ settlement and the alliance that kept it alive, 1620–1621
Feb 1692 – 1693·Event
The 1692 witch hunt in Puritan Massachusetts that sent twenty people to their deaths
1730s – 1770s·Movement
A wave of evangelical revivals across the colonies, 1730s–1770s
1744–1818·Person
Political partner, letter writer, and early voice for women’s rights
Nov 26, 1789 – Dec 26, 1941·Event
How a day of thanks became a fixed national holiday, from Washington to Roosevelt
Jan 24, 1848·Event
The 1848 discovery at Sutter’s Mill that sent fortune seekers flooding west
Mar 3, 1865 – 1872·Institution
The federal agency that aided formerly enslaved people, 1865–1872
1856–1915·Person
Educator and the most influential Black leader of his generation
c. 1870s – c. 1900s·Concept
An era of industrial wealth, inequality, and corruption, c. 1870–1900
1877–1935·Movement
Workers organize for wages, hours, and a voice on the job
1880s – 1965·Concept
The system of legal segregation and disenfranchisement, 1880s–1960s
1892–1924·Place
The nation’s busiest immigration station, 1892–1924
c. 1910s – c. 1970s·Movement
Millions of Black Southerners move North and West, 1910s–1970
Jan 21, 1910 – 1940·Place
The West Coast station built to enforce exclusion, 1910–1940
Mar 25, 1911·Event
A disaster that changed American workplace safety, March 25, 1911
Jan 17, 1920 – Dec 5, 1933·Event
The national ban on alcohol, 1920–1933
Aug 1929 – 1941·Event
The deepest economic collapse in American history, 1929–1941
c. 1930–1940·Event
Drought, dust storms, and migration on the southern Plains in the 1930s
Feb 19, 1942·Event
The forced removal and imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II
Jun 22, 1944·Document
The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944
1969–present·Concept
Computers, the internet, and smartphones transform American life
Jan 20, 2020·Event
The coronavirus pandemic in the United States, 2020–2023
