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The American Story
Every generation of Americans has been faced with the same question: how should we live? Our endlessly interesting answers have created The American Story. The weekly episodes published here...
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Tidings of Great Joy
At the time of the American founding, celebrations of Christmas in America varied widely, from Puritans and Quakers who shunned or ignored i...
All of You on the Good Earth
President Kennedy told a special joint session of Congress that it was "time for a great new American Enterprise."
Pearl Harbor and the Art of Politics
December 7, 2021 is the 80 th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought America into World War II. It is one of many d...
Andy Ngo
After the American defeat in Vietnam in 1975, the communists confiscated the homes, businesses, property, and savings of those south Vietnam...
Sarah Josepha Hale
Sarah Josepha Hale was born in New Hampshire in 1788. In an era when the average American life expectancy was forty years, she lived until 1...
Gettysburg
What makes Gettysburg America's most hallowed ground? A delegation of Russian historians at the height of the Cold War seemed to know, when...
One More for Chesty
"Chesty" Puller was a Marine's Marine. To this day, in Marine Corps boot camp, recruits are exhorted, "Do one more for Chesty! Chesty Puller...
Bullets for Ballots: 1860 (3 of 3)
Until the election of 1860, the truths proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence had been the ground of American civic friendship, above...
Ballots for Bullets: 1800 (2 of 3)
The election of 1800 in America came after a decade of bitter and extreme party strife. Each side accused the other of aiming to overthrow t...
Bullets and Ballots: 1776
Americans are being reminded how fragile and precious an achievement it is to establish the legitimate authority of government through peace...
Thank God for being an American
P.G. Wodehouse was one of the best writers in the English language in the 20th century and the funniest. He wrote nearly 100 delightful book...
Charlie Brown
There is more of Charlie Brown in most of us than there is Abraham Lincoln or Michael Jordan. We identify with his failures and suffer with...
"Make Cakes!"
During peak hours, in the 300 block of Brand Boulevard in the city of Glendale, in what is called "Metropolitan Los Angeles," you might see...
Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver
The Declaration's great American proclamation that "all men are created equal" and the first three words of the Constitution—"We the People"...
We the People
September 17 is Constitution Day in America because on that day in 1787, after 4 months of deliberations, the delegates at the Constitutiona...
9/11
Twenty-one years have come and gone since September 11, 2001 became "9/11." It is a day not just for mourning victims but for honoring heroe...
This Was a Man
Frederick Bailey was born into slavery in 1818. With determination, courage, some help from others, and good luck, he managed to escape to f...
Our Finest Hour
America's greatest enemy is not the Chinese or the Russians, or some other foreign tyranny—though they might indeed kill us if we continue s...
Soul of Freedom
Every year in August, the oldest synagogue in America—Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island—holds a public reading of a letter written by...
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