In 1917, the people of America wanted to do something to show their friendship with France. The people of America remembered the great Frenchmen, such as Lafayette, had fought by the side of George Washington. 

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The final stretches of the Civil War came down to the leadership of two honorable men: Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee.

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It took two years of bloody fighting before Abraham Lincoln realized that he could not save the Union without granting liberty to the slaves—that Liberty and Union were truly one and inseparable, then and forever. 

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Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas continued to battle each other—steel against steel. 

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In every great novel, the protagonist must prove his greatness by fighting and overcoming a powerful antagonist. In the life of Abraham Lincoln, this antagonist was Stephen Douglas.

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When it came to slavery, it was as if Americans had eyes but did not see, and ears but did not hear. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe changed all that. By enabling people to feel the horrors of slavery, they enable people to see that slavery must be abolished. 

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By making the Louisiana purchase, Thomas Jefferson advanced another noble goal of "We the People" in establishing the Constitution to promote the general welfare. Today, when America is a global superpower straddling the North American continent from sea to shining sea, it is hard to remember that America was once merely a narrow strip of settlements stretching the Atlantic seaboard.

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George Washington not only acted according to his convictions of honor, he also acted according to his convictions of good sense. And his good sense was never more evident than at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. He had the good sense to understand the times and to know what America should do. 

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By standing tall and trying again despite repeated failures, George Washington rose to the level of glory attained by those, such as Winston Churchill, who persevere despite setbacks and incredible odds against them.

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Religion was not the only realm in which colonial America began to awaken. Benjamin Franklin himself epitomized the first awakenings of the press, the power of science, and the power of technology in America. 

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