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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 January 2025. "American history" redirects here. For the history of the continents, see History of the Americas. Further information: Economic history of the United States Current territories of the United States after the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was given independence in 1994 This ...
The Oxford History of the United States is an ongoing multivolume narrative history of the United States published by Oxford University Press.Conceived in the 1950s and launched in 1961 under the co-editorship of historians Richard Hofstadter and C. Vann Woodward, the series has been edited by David M. Kennedy since 1999.
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
For example, in Spanish, the church is called Iglesia Episcopal Protestante de los Estados Unidos de América or Iglesia Episcopal, [28] and in French Église protestante épiscopale des États-Unis d'Amérique or Église épiscopale. [29] Until 1964, "The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America" was the only official name ...
July 29 – Francisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, and eight other Spaniards set out from Santa Fe on the Domínguez–Escalante expedition, an eighteen-hundred mile trek through the American Southwest. They are the first Europeans to explore the vast region between the Rockies and the Sierras.
The Spaniard Juan Ponce de León, who named and explored Florida Spain's historical presence, including claimed territories, points of interest, and expeditions in North America Starting in the 16th century, Spain built a colonial empire in the Americas consisting of New Spain and other vice-royalties.
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French army general [107] Haym Salomon, along with Robert Morris, was the prime financier of the American Revolution. He also spied for the Continental Army. [121] Philip Schuyler, Revolutionary War general, U.S. senator from New York, father of the Schuyler sisters.
The Other Eighties: A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan (Hill & Wang; 2011) 242 pages; emphasis on efforts by the political left; Meacham, Jon. Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush (2015) excerpt