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“And so old Mr. Adams is dead; on the 4th of July, too, just half a century after our Declaration of Independence...”

The extravaganza celebrating the nation’s first century was the greatest cultural event of America’s Gilded Age.

Though America was in no mood to party in 1976, the Tall Ships saved the Bicentennial. 

Our Founders profoundly transformed the way people participate in government.

At the nation’s pivotal moment — the Civil War — two seventeenth-century vessels kept sailing through the American mind: the Mayflower and the slaver White Lion. Their wakes still cut our waters.

The Humane Society and later the U.S. Life-Saving Service rescued thousands of shipwreck victims operating from lifesaving stations throughout the New England coast and beyond. 

Congress forbade living persons from appearing on paper currency in 1866, after an unpopular Treasury Department official put himself on the five-cent note.

Sixty years ago, as James Meredith fell to his knees in Mississippi, the civil rights movement found itself at a turning point.

The rumor mill is as old as our boisterous republic.

Established 100 years ago, the famous highway remains a quintessential American experience for countless enthusiasts both at home and abroad.