Homelands, settlements, battlefields, routes, and territorial change.
30 entries, in chronological order
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
Sep 8, 1565·Place
The oldest continuously occupied European-founded city in the United States
Jul 13, 1787·Document
The plan for governing the Old Northwest and admitting new states
Place
Where the Declaration and the Constitution were debated and signed
Apr 30, 1803·Event
The United States doubles in size, 1803
May 14, 1804 – Sep 23, 1806·Event
The Corps of Discovery crosses the continent, 1804–1806
1817–1825·Event
The 363-mile “artificial river” that linked the Great Lakes to New York City in 1825
“America’s Front Yard” in Washington, D.C.
Feb 23 – Mar 6, 1836·Event
The thirteen-day siege of 1836 and the war that made Texas an independent republic
May 1838 – Mar 1839·Event
The forced removal of the Cherokee Nation, 1838–1839
Armory town where John Brown struck at slavery
Jul 1–3, 1863·Event
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War, July 1–3, 1863
Oct 28, 1886–present·Place
France’s gift to the United States, and a welcome to generations of immigrants
1892–1924·Place
The nation’s busiest immigration station, 1892–1924
Jan 17, 1893 – Jul 7, 1898·Event
How American sugar planters toppled Queen Liliʻuokalani and the United States took the islands in 1898
1898–1952·Event
From Spanish colony to U.S. territory and commonwealth, 1898–1952
Jan 21, 1910 – 1940·Place
The West Coast station built to enforce exclusion, 1910–1940
May 31 – Jun 1, 1921·Event
The destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, 1921
1926–1985·Place
The “Mother Road” from Chicago to Santa Monica
1927 – Oct 31, 1941·Place
Four presidents carved into the Black Hills — a national symbol on land sacred to the Lakota
c. 1930–1940·Event
Drought, dust storms, and migration on the southern Plains in the 1930s
Dec 7, 1941·Event
Japan’s surprise attack that brought the United States into World War II
A War Relocation Center in California’s Owens Valley, now a National Historic Site
Aug 28, 1963·Event
The 1963 march where King delivered “I Have a Dream”
Mar 7–25, 1965·Event
“Bloody Sunday” and the march for voting rights, 1965
San Francisco Bay island — prison, and site of the 1969–1971 Indian occupation
Site of the 1957 desegregation crisis, now a National Historic Site
Greenwich Village landmark of the gay rights movement
