Simon Schama: The founding fathers and the battle for America’s future

America at 250: Will our Founding Ideals Survive?

Photo Credit: John TrumballBy Scott S. PowellInasmuch as the Founding Fathers and Lincoln were all willing to give their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to establish and save the nation, how should Americans now think about their obligations?

Celebrate America For How It Enabled The Invisible Hand, Not The Visible Foot

Adam Smith's vision of a “system of natural liberty” was shared by our founders.

What Independence Day Really Means

In this episode of the Radio Rothbard, we look at Murray Rothbard's monumental history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty.

The last Founding Father: How James Monroe paved the way for America’s greatness

George Washington was the father of our nation, a man seemingly cast from marble whose service, both in wartime and as president, made both its existence and survival possible. John Adams was his stubborn successor, celebrated years later for being a charming malcontent. Thomas Jefferson was the wordsmith of the Revolution. James Madison was its []

The Dread Pirate Portnoy Isn’t So Dreadful After All

The history of the United States is one filled with founders — visionaries who created businesses, even whole industries, and helped this amazing country continue towards its goal of becoming a more perfect union. We’ve been so good at this that we’re almost victims of our own success. There are still innovators out there, but ...

America 250: A republic, if we can keep it

As we reflect on the 250th anniversary of our country's founding, a look back at the debates and wisdom of our founders is instructive for our future success.

Green: The Great Awakening that built the Constitution

The rugged Christian faith of the heroic founders was vitally interwoven with their patriotism and is inextricably linked by a sacred thread of purpose to the Great Awakening. The post Green: The Great Awakening that built the Constitution first appeared on Vermont Daily Chronicle. The post Green: The Great Awakening that built the Constitution appeared first on Vermont Daily Chronicle.

America’s 250th is an invitation to help kids understand exactly what this country is all about

As America approaches its 250th birthday, we’re about to hear a lot about the founders. Schools and sites of civic care will revisit the names and lives of George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and more. There will be lessons about the extraordinary risks of the founders as they mutually pledged to each []

Heroes of 1776

A Supreme Court justice remembers the signers, soldiers, farmers, fifers, spies, and messengers who made the American Revolution-and reflects on our enduring task of forming 'a more perfect Union.'

How America’s founding inspires its strategy in the world

As it marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the United States should rededicate itself to its founding principles and to a strategy in the world that seeks to advance those principles. The post How America’s founding inspires its strategy in the world appeared first on Atlantic Council.

Can you taste history? We try George Washington's original beer

Hops, yeast...and a lot of molasses

The American Experiment: a star-studded history lesson

The American Experiment: a star-studded history lesson

Preserving America’s Principles in an Unprincipled World

Americans will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Founding tomorrow with an extravaganza of concerts, parties, fireworks, and parades. Their friends from abroad are joining the party with gusto: Yesterday, an armada that descended on New York Harbor as part of the festivities included service members from over 100 countries.The post Preserving America’s Principles in an Unprincipled World appeared first on .

Spencer Pratt’s WAR Foundation Puts Los Angeles’ Political Class on Notice

Spencer Pratt’s WAR Foundation Puts Los Angeles’ Political Class on Notice

As America marks 250 years, our greatest chapters are still ahead of us

Founders fire — the bold vision and risk-taking spirit behind the Declaration of Independence — still drives American exceptionalism 250 years later.

An Abundance of Influence

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis, Julia Pitta A group of YIMBY big tech donors took over San Francisco politics. Now they're setting their sights on the rest of the country. The post An Abundance of Influence appeared first on The Nation.

America at 300: Imagining the next half-century of change...

America at 300: Imagining the next half-century of change... (First column, 5th story, link)

The American Revolution’s Long Tail

Richard Kreitner Throughout US history, social movements—from reformist to radical—have returned to the language and ideals of 1776. The post The American Revolution’s Long Tail appeared first on The Nation.

Before 1776, There Was 1649

What Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution meant to America’s revolutionaries.

[Video] This is Dearborn, Michigan.We are watching the transformation of America before our eyes.

This is Dearborn, Michigan.We are watching the transformation of America before our eyes.

Freedom Round the Globe review: Did a planet in revolt create modern America?

If you’re interested in the Revolutionary War that culminated in the creation of the independent United States of America, then this book is a cracking read, writes Dylan Jones

The United States and Zionism have a 250-year relationship

Zionism stands at the very heart of America's founding and the American idea.

The Birthplace of the United States

It was here the founders shaped the future of American government.

Why Did The Left Demonize US on 250th July 4? It’s a Sales Tactic, Warns Top Historian

The reason so many powerful interests are working to demonize America, its history, and its Founding Fathers around the nation’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is simple yet brilliant. Basically, it’s a sales tactic, explained leading historian and author William Federer of American Minute in this interview on Behind The Deep State with The ... The post Why Did The Left Demonize US on 250th July 4? It’s a Sales Tactic, Warns Top Historian appeared first on The New American.

I reported on three US presidencies. America’s message of freedom is dead

The high ideals the nation was founded on now look like a memory to a longtime White House reporter

Democratic socialists set sights beyond New York after Big Apple romp

Democratic socialists are setting their sights on Colorado, Wisconsin and beyond after a romp of victories in New York added fuel to the progressive movement. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) burst into the spotlight with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s election last year and expanded its influence with a pair of wins this past week...

The Marvelous Arrogance of the American Revolution

Help us defend this inheritance.

“American giants”: Trump salutes founding fathers in historic 250th anniversary address

Addressing a patriotic crowd on the eve of America's 250th Independence Day, the President anchored his vision for the nation's future in the legacy of four of his most influential predecessors: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Princeton Historian Deconstructs the “Storybook” Version of US History

As the US commemorates its 250th anniversary, Eddie Glaude discusses the injustice baked into the US’s very founding.

250 years of American independence: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, 'the North and South poles of the American Revolution'

'America 250' (4/13). Fifty years to the day after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, two of its architects died: the enigmatic Thomas Jefferson and the impulsive John Adams. This coincidence only strengthened, among the population, the sense of an unprecedented destiny promised to their nation.

Patriot Front

Patriot Front

‘Young Washington’ screenwriter says film meant to humanize first president

Diederik Van Hoogstraten’s journey to U.S. citizenship taught him a great deal about America: That included a crash course in the United States’ first president, George Washington. So when he got the call to co-write a script based on that president’s formative years, he could have idealized the Founding Father. Instead, the screenwriter penned the []...Click to read more

America Is 250 Years Old. Have You Ever Read the Declaration of Independence?

On a glorious morning walk about a week before America’s 250th birthday, I was listening to Jon Stewart’s podcast on that theme. I recommend it. One of the things he discusses with his historian guests, Yale’s David Blight and Harvard’s Annette Gordon-Reed, is the Declaration of Independence, which both historians called a “dangerous document” in []

The Declaration is America’s greatest conversation

Most people think of the Declaration of Independence only as the document that announced America’s independence. It did that, but it also did something else just as important. It started a history-changing conversation that we’re still having today. The Declaration is an argument meant to be read, discussed, and remembered. The founders explained why leaving [] The post The Declaration is America’s greatest conversation appeared first on Americans for Prosperity.

Radical "Redneck" History: Insult or Badge of Pride?

Radical "Redneck" History: Insult or Badge of Pride?

Bringing Revolutionary Heroes to Life: Wedgwood Circle Wins America 250 Innovation Prize 

Before Gen. George Washington crossed the Delaware, a band of hardened fishermen rewrote the rules of the American military—and history nearly forgot them. But Wedgwood Circle, a collective of investors, patrons, and creative talent in the entertainment industry, did not. With the help of a 50,000 Heritage Foundation America’s 250th Innovation Prize grant, Wedgwood Circle is producing...

But first, coffee: The drink that energized the American Revolution

Colonial Americans were drinking coffee long before they dumped tea into Boston Harbor or fought a war for independence. The establishments that served it were already brewing revolutionary ideas.

We Need a Second Founding

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