UFTB FIELD GUIDE · HISTORY & CIVICS

Understanding America.Today: a field guide.

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The tools, collections and working files in Understanding America.Today. Open an entry for its description and follow the link when you are ready to explore.

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HISTORY & CIVICS

Understanding America.Today

Start with a president, a party or a turning point. Follow the connections, then look at the evidence behind the interpretation.

Fantasy classes and alignments are editorial readings. The voter and skills tools use dated datasets, with their limits kept in view.

  • American History Timeline

    Explore nine editorial eras, compare turning points, and follow the sources behind events and their interpretations.

    Open American History Timeline
  • American Political Cycles

    Scrub seven party systems, compare coalitions, and examine competing interpretations of political realignment.

    Open American Political Cycles
  • The Imperial Presidency

    Trace executive expansion alongside congressional, judicial, and electoral constraints, with linked historical context.

    Open The Imperial Presidency
  • American Party Braid

    Explore party lineages and relationship assessments. A connection shows historical lineage, not an unchanged ideology.

    Open American Party Braid
  • Presidents as D&D Characters

    Compare evidence-backed fantasy character readings of 45 presidents and assemble a five-president party. Classes are creative interpretations.

    Open Presidents as D&D Characters
  • Presidential Class Hall

    Explore 45 history-inspired Warcraft class portraits, compare interpretations, and read sourced quotations in context. An unofficial fan project.

    Open Presidential Class Hall
  • Presidential Alignment Lab

    Examine nine ethical alignment categories, historical rationales, and counterarguments. These are contested editorial readings, not objective ratings.

    Open Presidential Alignment Lab
  • The Presidential Reckoning

    Match presidents to their actions in a ten-question history challenge and compare your score with the public scoreboard.

    Open The Presidential Reckoning
  • American Voter Observatory

    Compare a curated subset of five ANES election studies with question-specific weights and visible limits. Descriptive differences are not causal proof.

    Open American Voter Observatory
  • ANES Question Lab

    Inspect questionnaire wording, response codes, exclusions, and split-sample context before interpreting a survey estimate.

    Open ANES Question Lab
  • American Skills Atlas

    Explore NCES adult literacy and numeracy estimates, compare places, and keep source dates and uncertainty in view.

    Open American Skills Atlas
  • UA.T Research Search

    Find connected records across the UA.T workspace and jump directly to the relevant historical or research context.

    Open UA.T Research Search
  • Saved Research Notebook

    Keep a research thread in your browser, save useful records, and export your notebook. Local storage is not a cloud backup.

    Open Saved Research Notebook
  • The Amerisphere

    Distinguish territories, legal authority and sovereign partners, then explore separate U.S.-linked founding histories.

    Open The Amerisphere
  • History

    Start with the timeline, then connect political cycles, party lineages and executive power. Open a collection when you want the records and sources behind an era or argument.

    Open History
  • Presidents

    Choose a presidential lens, with factual records separated from interpretive character assignments.

    Open Presidents
  • Dragon Ball Z characters

    Explore presidents as Dragon Ball Z characters, with creative pairings, historical context and counterpoints.

    Open Dragon Ball Z characters
  • Harry Potter characters

    Explore 45 presidents as Harry Potter characters, compare three, and inspect historical context and counterpoints.

    Open Harry Potter characters
  • Lord of the Rings characters

    45 presidents as Lord of the Rings characters, with historical context, comparisons, and a fellowship builder.

    Open Lord of the Rings characters
  • Research

    Choose voter research, adult skills or a saved notebook. Keep the source dates, question wording and uncertainty beside the numbers you compare.

    Open Research
  • Research relationships

    Explore the relationships among the site’s research records and their linked evidence.

    Open Research relationships
  • Methods & evidence

    Understand the distinction between sourced facts, editorial interpretation and entertainment.

    Open Methods & evidence
  • Space

    Explore America’s space programs, institutions and industry in their international context, with explicit handoffs to the independent Second Space Race for global coverage.

    Open Space
  • America in Space · with Second Space Race

    Investigate America’s space programs, capabilities and public relationships in their global context.

    Open America in Space · with Second Space Race
  • Space Explorarium

    Filter missions, compare up to three and save a source-linked research brief.

    Open Space Explorarium
  • Find an island or place

    Search reviewed names, aliases and parent territories without inflating territory counts.

    Open Find an island or place
  • Constituent islands

    Explore islands within their parent territories and keep constituent geography distinct.

    Open Constituent islands
  • Maritime jurisdiction

    Distinguish territorial waters from limited maritime rights and resource jurisdiction.

    Open Maritime jurisdiction
  • Tribal and federal overlays

    Read tribal sovereignty and federal authority as distinct, overlapping legal contexts.

    Open Tribal and federal overlays
  • Overseas controlled or leased sites

    Separate host-country sovereignty from U.S. control and site-specific lease arrangements.

    Open Overseas controlled or leased sites
  • Freely associated countries

    Meet sovereign compact partners, clearly separate from U.S. territories.

    Open Freely associated countries
  • Disputed and historical claims

    Compare dated claims, administration and case-specific legal findings.

    Open Disputed and historical claims
  • Law beyond sovereign territory

    Understand how legal authority can extend beyond sovereign territory.

    Open Law beyond sovereign territory
  • Historical relationships

    Explore independence, occupation, security partnerships and other distinct histories.

    Open Historical relationships
  • Annexation and territorial expansion

    Distinguish annexation, colonial cession and Indigenous dispossession with continuing sovereignty.

    Open Annexation and territorial expansion
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