US History

Colonial America, the Revolution, the Constitution, and the people and events students are asked about most.

United States history for elementary and middle grades, organized by period and by the people students are most often assigned.

Colonial America and the founding

  • The thirteen colonies.
  • Pilgrims.
  • The first draft of the Constitution.
  • The American Revolution.

People

  • Harriet Tubman.
  • Eli Whitney.
  • More biographies.

Later periods

Before 1492

The history of this land does not begin with European arrival. Native American history and culture is a separate section with a page for each nation, written with the nations themselves as the subject rather than as a chapter in someone else’s story.

Related

World history, geography and civics.