The Experiment: US History
American History - Documented
Only for iPhone
$2.99 · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Some highlights your textbook most likely skipped: prison ships, a smallpox cover-up, a VP who shot someone and finished his term. America is weirder than they told you.
The history of the United States taught in most schools follows a reliable arc: the battles won, the documents signed, the speeches given. It's not wrong. But the highlight reel skips the parts that are harder to explain - the thousands of people who died on prison ships nobody remembers, the mass smallpox inoculation Washington ran in secret while his army was vulnerable, the spy who helped win the Revolutionary War and then spent six years fighting for his own freedom afterward.
This app is interested in that texture.
150+ timeline entries across 12 chapters of American history, from the birth of the republic to 1976. History requires distance - not because recent events don't matter, but because without it, context collapses into argument. The facts, left unedited, are strange and hard and worth knowing.
More than 30,000 words of documented American history. No filler.
What's included:
- Primary source images from the Library of Congress and National Archives
- Document Library: 32 original documents, declassified files, and primary source transcripts
- Flag history: every significant version of the American flag, documented
- All 50 states: admission dates, capitals, and one thing most people don't know about each
- Reader Mode: distraction-free reading. Save your place with a bookmark
Everything in this app is documented and verified. None of it is for a test.
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This update was inspired by a news article I read: earlier this month (June 2026), archaeologists in Massachusetts excavated a defensive ditch from the Battle of Bunker Hill, recovering musket balls and gun flints from both sides, just over 250 years after the battle. I updated the Bunker Hill entry to reflect this, and used the occasion to take a closer look at the rest of the timeline.
What else is new:
29 entries across the timeline have been expanded with new facts, context, and connections to other events, from the lead-up to the Revolution through Watergate.
Settings has been reorganized.
General formatting and readability improvements throughout.
The developer, Raymond Verrier, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Raymond Verrier
- Size
- 718.7 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Realistic Violence
Guns or Other Weapons
Contains
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- Copyright
- © Dawson Stories 2026
