- •American Emblems and Symbols
- •American Character
- •Geographical position
- •Early America
- •The First Europeans
- •First European settlements
- •English-American Relationship
- •The Wars
- •A New Colonial System
- •The War for Independence
- •The New Nation
- •Frontier
- •The Mexican War
- •The Civil War
- •Radical reconstruction
- •19Th-20th centuries
- •World War I
- •The New Deal
- •World War II
- •Pearl Harbor
- •Postwar America
- •Civil Rights Movement
- •Kennedy and the New Frontier
- •Cuban crisis
- •The Vietnam War
- •Watergate
- •Iran-Contra and Black Monday
- •The Gulf War
- •Panama and nafta
- •XXI century
- •The System of Government in the usa
- •American Constitution
- •Elections of the President
- •The President at Work
- •Vice-President
- •Parties and Elections
- •The parties
- •How Government Works
- •State Governments
- •Economy
- •Crime and punishment
- •Religion
- •Education
- •Mass Media
- •The Arts
- •American music
- •Appendix
- •American states New England
- •Midwest
- •Great Plains
- •Mountain
- •Southwest
- •Pacific
- •The anthem
- •The Enduring Mystery Of The Anasazi
- •Early Men, Indians And The Mound Builders
- •Tribes of Native Americans
- •Christopher Columbus
- •Jamestown
- •Massachusetts
- •Native Americans
- •The Iroquois Confederacy
- •Great Native Americans
- •Boston Tea Party Take your tea and shove it.
- •George Washington
- •“First in war, first in peace”, George Washington is the best known and the most honoured individual in America’s history.
- •John Adams
- •Thomas Jefferson
- •Early presidential elections and Congressional caucuses
- •Slavery and the War
- •John Brown (1800-1859) Harriet Tubman (c. 1820-1913)
- •John Brown’s Last Speech November 2, 1859
- •The Gettysburg Address
- •Abraham Lincoln
- •Robert Edward Lee
- •Ulysses s. Grant
- •William Tecumseh Sherman
- •Reconstruction
- •The First Sioux War
- •The Last Sioux War
- •The Nez Perce War
- •The Ghost Dance
- •Theodore Roosevelt
- •Prohibition
- •Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- •Eleanor Roosevelt
- •The Fair Deal
- •The Korean War
- •Civil Rights Movement
- •Martin Luther King, Jr.
- •I Have a Dream
- •The Ghetto Riots
- •The Cuban Missile Crisis
- •The Vietnam War
- •The Hostage Crisis
- •Manhattan Project Bomb Design
- •"Fat Man" - The Plutonium Bomb
- •Time Magazine:
- •Division of Powers
- •The Ivy League
- •Holidays
Holidays
National celebrations
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New Year’s day (January 1) |
LH/SS
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Martin Luther King day (third Monday in January) |
LH/PS
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President’s day (third Monday in February) (combines Lincoln’s birthday and Washington’s birthday)
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LH/PS
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Arbor day (April 22) |
NS
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Mother’s day (second Sunday in May) |
FS
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Memorial day (last Monday in May) |
LH/SS/FS/PS
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Flag day (June 14) |
NS
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Father’s day (third Sunday in June) |
FS
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Independence day (July 4) |
LH/SS/PS
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Labor day (first Monday in September) |
LH/SS/PS |
Columbus day (second Monday in October) |
LH/PS
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Veteran’s day (November 11) |
LH/FS/PS
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Thanksgiving day (fourth Thursday in November) |
LH/SS/FS/PS
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Religious celebrations
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Christmas day (December 25) |
LH/SS/FS
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Passover (March/April) |
SS/FS
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Easter (a Sunday in March or April) |
SS/FS
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Hannukah (November/December) |
SS/FS
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Fun days
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St. Valentine’s day (February 14) |
FS
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April Fool’s day (April 1) |
NS
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Halloween (October 31) |
SS
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Ethic and regional celebrations
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Lunar New Year (February) (China, Korea, Vietnam, others) |
New York City, Seattle, San F5rancisco
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Mardi Gras (February/March) |
New Orleans
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St. Patrick’s day (March 17) |
Boston, New York City, San Francisco |
Cinco de Mayo (May 5) |
Southwest US, Texas
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Native American pow-wows (March August)
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LH – Legal Holiday
PS – Political Significance
SS – Social Significance
NS – Not Significant
FS – Family Significance