Explore History

Take a walk through history with the Historians and Curators at the Museum of the American G.I.

Museum of the American G.I in College Station, Texas - Image of Soldiers on Boat

From the American Revolution to the Mexican-American War, learn how Americans fought to establish and increase the territories of the United States of America.

Take a closer look at a complicated and controversial time in US History.

Museum of the American G.I in College Station, Texas - Image of Civil War 1861-1865
Museum of the American G.I in College Station, Texas - Image of American Imperialism 1866-1913

Explore how an effort to increase political, economic, and cultural influence and further American Exceptionalism led to a time of territorial expansion.

An assassination, old imperial alliances, and the rise of nationalism led to a world at war resulting in the development of new technologies.

Museum of the American G.I in College Station, Texas - Image of soldiers during WWI Interwar Period 1914-1938
Museum of the American G.I in College Station, Texas - Image of soldiers during WWII Interwar Period 1939-1949

Stories of when the “Greatest Generation” went to war to save the world.

Learn about the “Forgotten War” and why it should be remembered.

Museum of the American G.I in College Station, Texas - Image of Korean War 1950-1953
Museum of the American G.I in College Station, Texas - Image of Vietnam during Cold War 1954-1989

Explore how Tunnel rat, Proxy wars, space race, POW, LZ, military advisors became Military Lexicons that defined an era.

A time when America, often under the auspices of NATO or the UN, carried out “limited military intervention” to promote democracy and international relief.

Museum of the American G.I in College Station, Texas - Image of American Intervention Gulf War, 1990-2000
Museum of the American G.I in College Station, Texas - Image of War On Terror 2001

For almost 20 years the central focus of the US Military was the Global War on Terror.  Take a closer look at this protracted war and the Servicemen and Women that served with honor and distinction.