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A conflict between the United States and the British Empire, during which the US Capitol was burned in 1814.
Yes — both legally and historically the United States can hold a presidential election while at war: the Constitution fixes election dates, Congress and the states run the process, and U.S. history re...
War Plan Red was a U.S. interwar contingency plan that mapped a comprehensive campaign to neutralize Canada as a potential British staging ground by seizing ports, rail hubs and industrial regions acr...
, was a politically motivated assault on by supporters of aimed at stopping certification of the 2020 election, widely described as an insurrection or attempted coup and resulting in multiple deaths, ...
of Washington in August 1814 gutted the President’s House and other public buildings, forcing an immediate rebuilding of and catalyzing wider reconstruction in . That damage reshaped decisions about m...
The Constitutional Convention confronted a messy patchwork of state tariffs and retaliatory duties that threatened interstate harmony, prompting delegates to centralize in the as both a revenue source...