Dr. Bill McClay, Professor of History at Hillsdale College.

American character and values at America’s 250th Anniversary. As seen in the new video series “The Story of America.”

Dr. McClay is the host of the first video in the series. ——Enduring qualities of the American people and our capacity to respond to darkness with light and to peril with determination.

Americans seemed buoyed by the knowledge that others have done these things before us, and, in a sense, for us.

What was done before can be done again.