An interactive chronological timeline of 88 named conflicts involving the American colonies, territories, and the United States — from the Anglo-Powhatan Wars through the ongoing anti-ISIS campaign. Span: 417 years. Bar width represents actual conflict duration. Conflicts are organized by military era across nine horizontal lanes.
Scope includes: colonial interstate disputes, Native American wars, European colonial conflicts, the Barbary Wars, Mexican and Latin American campaigns, both World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, and post-Cold War interventions through 2024. Bar height reflects conflict scale — from civilization-defining wars down to border skirmishes.
Detail Panels: Click any bar to open a panel showing dates, theater, forces engaged, casualties, commanders, outcome, and a conflict chain showing causal links to other entries. Every conflict links directly to its Wikipedia article for further reading.
Further Exploration Links: Many panels — particularly Native American conflicts — include curated links to NPS National Park Service historic sites, Tribal official Native nation websites, Gov federal historical offices, and Museum research centers. The Tribal links are especially important. Official tribal nation sites — the Oglala Sioux Tribe, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the Nez Perce Tribe (Nimiipuu), the Navajo Nation, and others — present these conflicts in their own voice, documenting perspectives, losses, and ongoing consequences that standard historical accounts often minimize or omit entirely. For any conflict involving Indigenous peoples, the Tribal link is the most valuable source in the panel.
Controls: Adversary / Era / Outcome filters · Year filter (dims conflicts not active in that year) · Jump dropdown · ◀ Era / Era ▶ to step through eras · ★ Surprise and ✦ Discover buttons · Drag to pan · ←/→ arrow keys navigate within an era when a panel is open.
Developed and researched by Claude AI (Anthropic) · March 2026 · Corrections, suggestions, or additional sources are welcome via GitHub Issues