The United States of America, also known as the United States or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal capital distri
Cliff Palace, a settlement of ancestors of the Native American Pueblo peoples in present-day Montezuma County, Colorado, built between c. 1200 and 1275
The Declaration of Independence portrait depicts the Committee of Five presenting the Declaration to the Continental Congress on June 28, 1776, in Philadelphia.
The 1945 American Trinity test, the first-ever detonation of a nuclear weapon
Civil rights activists during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C. in August 1963
Irish Americans are Americans who have full or partial Irish ancestry or citizenship.
Charles Carroll, the sole Catholic signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, was the descendant of Irish nobility in County Tipperary. Signers Matthew Thornton, George Taylor were born in Ireland and were "Ulster" Scots, while Thomas Lynch Jr., for example, was Protestant; he was of Irish ancestry and retained a strong Irish identity.
"Leacht Cuimhneacháin na nGael", Irish famine memorial located on Penn's Landing, Philadelphia
Gravestone in Boston Catholic cemetery erected in memory of County Roscommon native born shortly before the Great Famine
Thomas Ambrose Butler, an Irish Catholic priest, was a leading voice in urging Irish immigrants to colonize Kansas