As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence, our founding charter remains central to our national life, unifying us and paving the way for what we have long called “the American Dream.”
America’s extraordinary success is directly related to its unique form of government embodied in the Constitution.
Our nation came into being thanks to an unexpected explosion of political talent in an emerging nation on the fringe of the Atlantic world.
The American War for Independence was part of an international trend -- a new focus on the individual that inspired people to new insights, new proclamations, and new assertions of rights.
American patriots began a conflict that spread around the globe.
What began as a civil war within the British Empire continued until it became a wider conflict affecting peoples and countries across Europe and North America.
The outcome of the American Revolution may have been affected by catastrophic storms in the deadliest hurricane season in recorded history.
A child of the South's "Lost Cause," Truman broke with his convictions to make civil rights a concern of the national government for the first time since Reconstruction. In so doing, he changed the nation forever.
George Washington’s Narrow Escapes
We can take pride in our nation, not as we pretend to a commission from God and a sacred destiny, but as we struggle to fulfill our deepest values in an inscrutable world.