Connecting the 21st Century to the Past: What Makes America America? (2000-the p

The United States'' boundaries have expanded over the centuries—and at the same time, Americans'' ideas about their country have grown as well. The nation the world knows today was shaped by centuries of thinkers and events. But some things have not changed. The basic framework of the American nation was laid out by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the...