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|name = History of the United States
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 | country = the United States
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 | image = [[File:Greater coat of arms of the United States.svg|140px|Greater coat of arms of the United States]]
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|list1title = [[Timeline of United States history|Timeline]]
|list1name = timeline
|list1 = 
* [[Prehistory of the United States|Prehistory]]
* [[Pre-Columbian era|Pre-Colonial]]
* [[Colonial history of the United States|Colonial period]]

* [[History of the United States (1776–89)|1776–1789]]
* [[History of the United States (1789–1849)|1789–1849]]
* [[History of the United States (1849–65)|1849–1865]]

* [[History of the United States (1865–1918)|1865–1918]]
* [[History of the United States (1918–45)|1918–1945]]
* [[History of the United States (1945–64)|1945–1964]]

* [[History of the United States (1964–80)|1964–1980]]
* [[History of the United States (1980–91)|1980–1991]]
* [[History of the United States (1991–present)|1991–{{small|''present''}}]]

|list2title = By ethnicity
|list2name = ethnicity
|list2 =
*  [[African-American history|African American]]
*  [[History of Asian Americans|Asian American]]
*  [[History of Chinese Americans|Chinese American]]
*  [[History of Filipino Americans|Filipino American]]
*  [[History of Japanese Americans|Japanese American]]
*  [[History of Mexican Americans|Mexican American]]
*  [[History of the Poles in the United States|Polish American]]

|list3title = By topic
|list3name = topic
|list3 =
* [[Civil rights movement (1896–1954)|Civil Rights]]
** [[Civil rights movement (1896–1954)|1896–1954]]
** [[Civil rights movement|1955–1968]]
*  [[American Civil War|Civil War]]
*  [[Cultural history of the United States|Culture]]
*  [[Demographic history of the United States|Demographics]]
*  [[History of U.S. foreign policy|Diplomacy]]
*  [[Economic history of the United States|Economics]]
*  [[Historiography of the United States|Historiography]]
*  [[History of medicine in the United States|Medicine]]
*  [[Military history of the United States|Military]]
*  [[History of the Southern United States|Southern]]
*  [[American frontier|Frontier (Old West)]]
*  [[Technological and industrial history of the United States|Technology and industry]]
*  [[Territorial evolution of the United States|Territory]]
*  [[History of women in the United States|Women]]

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