During the bloody years when the Civil War tore apart the United States, one place remained whole: a symbol of America's early promise and future hope. Mount Vernon, the Virginia home of George ...

Symbols ultimately mean whatever we decide they ... a promise that had been incompletely realized. What was good about America, embodied in our glorious Founding, was sufficient to fix what ...

Bald eagles are powerful symbols of America—but there’s a whole lot more to these quirky birds. Obviously, adult bald eagles ...