“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.” – Walt Whitman (preface to the first edition of Leaves of Grass, 1855)
The American Heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan (Medal of Honor Recipients from Iraq/Afghanistan)
America: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (A response to Howard Zinn and the 1619 Project)
Christopher Columbus Finds Land (October 12, 1492)
The Waldseemuller Map: America’s Birth Certificate (The first map with the name “America”)
1620: The Mayflower Arrives with Saints and Strangers (The Pilgrims arrive on the Mayflower)
A Tradition of Giving Thanks (Giving thanks to God in American history)
One Nation Under God (Prayer and religious liberty in America)
Benjamin Franklin: The Wisdom of Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)
You’re a Grand Old Flag (The story of the Stars and Stripes)
The French & Indian War Leads to Revolution (The French and Indian War)
The Road to Revolution and to July 4, 1776 (The events that led to independence)
The Boston Massacre Helps Establish American Justice (The Boston Massacre)
Dr. Joseph Warren: The True Patriot of the American Revolution (Revolutionary Patriot)
Henry Knox’s Cannons Save Boston (The Continental Army secures Boston)
Thomas Paine: Common Sense Comes to America (Thomas Paine)
Caesar Rodney’s Ride for Independence (Declaration signer from Delaware)
The Declaration Signers: Lives, Fortunes & Sacred Honor (The Signers of the Declaration of Independence)
The Fog That Saved an Army (The Continental Army’s miraculous escape from New York)
Washington Saves the Revolution at Trenton (The Battle of Trenton)
Valley Forge: America’s Long Winter (Valley Forge)
The Great Seal of the United States: Bald Eagles & Pyramids (The Great Seal)
Thaddeus Kościuszko: The Pure Son of Liberty (Revolutionary War Hero)
The Little Known Ride of Jack Jouett (Saving Thomas Jefferson)
Rebecca Motte: The Flames of Freedom (The story of Rebecca Motte)
Yorktown: Turning the World Upside Down (The British surrender at Yorktown)
George Washington: The Eyeglasses That Saved America? (George Washington puts down a mutiny)
The Northwest Ordinance: Growing America (The Northwest Ordinance)
The Constitution: We the People (The Constitutional Convention)
The Constitution: A More Perfect Union (The Constitution’s Structure)
The Constitution: If Men Were Angels (Federalist Papers/Constitution’s ratification)
Washington Takes the Oath: America’s First Inauguration (George Washington)
George Washington Gives Thanks
George Washington: To Bigotry No Sanction (George Washington makes clear that religious liberty applies to all)
The Constitution: The Bill of Rights Becomes the Law of the Land (The Bill of Rights)
France: Not the American Revolution (The French Revolution shows the path not taken)
The Founding Fathers Create a Capital (Creation of our nation’s capital)
George Washington Says Farewell (George Washington’s “Farewell Address”)
John Adams, Free Speech, Aliens & Sedition (The Alien and Sedition Acts)
The Constitution: The Supreme Court Grants Itself Judicial Review (The Supreme Court)
How Thomas Jefferson Became America’s Third President (Thomas Jefferson)
Jefferson Battles the Barbary Pirates (Barbary Pirates)
Hamilton & Burr: Dueling Interests (Alexander Hamilton/Aaron Burr)
The War of 1812: A Real British Invasion (The War of 1812)
Francis Scott Key Writes America’s National Anthem (The National Anthem)
Jefferson: Advice From a Founding Father (Thomas Jefferson)
Daniel Webster: The Greatest Speech in Senate History? (Daniel Webster)
Tocqueville: A Visitor to American Democracy (Alexis de Tocqueville)
The Oregon Trail: Americans Move West (The Oregon Trail)
The Debates: Lincoln-Douglas (Abraham Lincoln/Stephen Douglas)
We Are Brethren: The Origins of Slavery in America
We Are Brethren: Abolitionists Challenge Slavery in America
The Last Letter of Sullivan Ballou (A Civil War soldier’s final letter to his wife)
Julia Ward Howe: Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! (Julia Ward Howe writes “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”)
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation (The Emancipation Proclamation)
Lincoln Declares America as the Last Best Hope of Earth (Abraham Lincoln)
Little Round Top: America’s Stand of the 300 (The 20th Maine Regiment at Gettysburg)
The 54th Massachusetts: William Carney’s Medal of Honor (The first African-American Medal of Honor recipient/54th MA)
The Gettysburg Address: A New Birth of Freedom (The Gettysburg Address)
Lincoln: With Malice Toward None, With Charity For All (Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address)
Ulysses S. Grant Versus the KKK (Reconstruction/Post-Civil War)
Mary Edwards Walker’s Medal of Honor (The only female Medal of Honor recipient)
U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves Tames the Wild West (The story of Bass Reeves)
Edison & Tesla: America Becomes Electrified (Thomas Edison/Nikola Tesla)
The Statue of Liberty: The World’s Symbol of Opportunity (The Statue of Liberty)
Andrew Carnegie: The Original Man of Steel (Andrew Carnegie)
The Wright Brothers Get Airborne (The Wright Brothers)
The Panama Canal: Across Two Oceans (The Panama Canal)
Theodore Roosevelt: Citizenship & The Man in the Arena (Theodore Roosevelt)
The 17th Amendment: Senators Were Chosen How? (The 17th Amendment)
Chasing Pancho Villa (Mexican outlaw Pancho Villa)
Woodrow Wilson, Edith Wilson & a Stroke in the White House (Woodrow and Edith Wilson/25th Amendment)
America Enters The Great War (World War I)
The Story of Martin Treptow (A WWI soldier’s story)
Live, Comply, Die: The Origins of Communism (Communism’s sinister history)
John Muntean: One Man Escapes Communism (One man’s escape from Communist Romania)
Cuba & Venezuela: Lessons From America’s Socialist Neighbors (Socialism’s devastating consequences for Cuba and Venezuela)
Communism’s 45 Goals for America (How communism gains influence in America)
Calvin Coolidge’s Thoughts on the Declaration (Calvin Coolidge)
The 1930s: America’s Depressed Decade (The Great Depression)
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy (Pearl Harbor)
Christmas 1941 (Franklin Roosevelt/Winston Churchill)
Remembering D-Day (June 6, 1944)
Fighting Imperial Japan: The Flags of Iwo Jima (The Battle of Iwo Jima)
Fighting Nazi Germany: The Origins of an Evil Regime (The origins of the evil of Nazi Germany)
Fighting Nazi Germany: The Battle of the Bulge (America enters WWII/The Battle of the Bulge)
Fighting Nazi Germany: American Soldiers Discover the Holocaust (The Holocaust/end of World War II)
WWII: A Marine’s Message to His Young Sons at Christmas (A World War II Marine’s final letter to his sons)
Hiroshima: The Bomb That Changed the World (Atomic bombs used against Japan)
The Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Begins (Harry Truman)
The Korean War (Almost) Ends (The Korean War)
In God We Trust (America’s National Motto)
Douglas MacArthur: Duty, Honor, Country (Douglas MacArthur)
Kennedy and Reagan: Two Speeches in West Berlin (John Kennedy/Ronald Reagan)
Duck and Cover: Nuclear Missiles in Cuba (The Cuban Missile Crisis)
“That’s One Small Step For Man… (The moon landing)
Iran Takes Americans Hostage (The Iran Hostage Crisis)
Do You Believe In Miracles? Yes! (U.S.A. hockey defeats the Soviet Union)
The Challenger: Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth (The Space Shuttle Challenger)
9/11: A Day of Remembrance (09/11/2001)
Marcus Luttrell: Lone Survivor (The story of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell)