This timeline of US wars is based on data from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Wars and subsequent pages. It includes the military conflicts that are "most often considered to be major conflicts by historians and the general public" using the Simile Timeline framework.

This version of the timeline compresses the boring peaceful non-war years of US history using the zooming capabilities of the Timeline framework. An uncompressed version of the same data can be found here.

More information about building this timeline can be found at the original weblog post discussing it: Simile Timelines.