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American Political History is the full story of this country, told through the people who lived it. The bayonet charge at Little Round Top. The boys from Bedford, Virginia who waded onto Omaha Beach and didn’t come home. The decorated sergeant blinded in a jail cell for asking to use a restroom. 

America is our aspiration, declared in 1776, and every generation since has been asked to pay for. Many have paid everything.

We did not build this. We inherited it. Our history is our endowment.