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History of the United States

Introduction


Flag and East Front of Capitol, Theodor Horydczak, photographer, circa 1920-1950. (Library of Congress)

History does not exist for us until and unless we dig it up, interpret it, and put it together. Then the past comes alive, or, more accurately, it is revealed for what it has always been - a part of the present.
Frederick W. Turner III, 1971

History is the study of the human past. Historians study records of conditions or events of a particular time and place. The United States of America is at once a very new nation and a very old nation. The first settlers -Asian hunters and nomads - reached North America about 30.000 years ago. However, the United States of America did not come into being until 1776 with the Declaration of Independence. The history of the United States is the story of many different peoples who together compose the United States of America. Since the first Europeans arrived in 1492, millions of people from many different countries have entered the United States and made the country their new home.

See what happened in U.S. history TODAY

Abridged from U.S. State Department IIP publications and other U.S. government materials.

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