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 heroes, those on Flight 93 and the many civilians and first respo...
6 Sep 20226min
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 freedom when he was 20 years old. He made his way to Massachu...
30 Aug 20226min
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 so fecklessly to defend ourselves. But what will they kill? T...
23 Aug 20226min
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 George Washington to the congregation early in his first te...
16 Aug 20227min
Hank's Roadside Bar & Grill
The American story isn't just history. We write the American story ourselves every day with the choices we make as individuals and as a country.
9 Aug 20226min
Yvonne, I Love You
The beautiful 17-year-old actress Madeleine LeBeau fled Paris in June, 1940, just hours before the Germans marched in. Like thousands of other refugees, she and her husband made their way with forged ...
2 Aug 20228min
As Time Goes By
One of the most popular films in Hollywood history, "Casablanca" seems to be composed of one famous line after another. For over 75 years, it has inspired us to stand up and sing in defiance of tyrann...
26 Jul 20227min
The Anti-slavery Constitution [3 of 3]
Among the many challenges to the statesmanship of the framers of the Constitution, none was more fundamental or intractable than the problem of slavery. On August 21 the Constitutional Convention, mee...
19 Jul 20226min
