The American Dream: A Biography

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For our annual Making of America Issue, Jon Meacham takes a look at the life and times of this enduring yet embattled idea. More »

The Hard Path to Citizenship

For the past decade, tens of thousands of military members and their families have been naturalized as U.S. citizens. A look at the other side of the immigration debate. More »
Photos: Summer in Small Town America

Images From Kansas City photographer Michael Sinclair's 'American Assembly' exhibition More »
Cover Story: One Document, Under Siege

How fights over the U.S. Constitution illuminate four of today's most divisive issues: Libya, taxes, health care and immigration More »
Thomas Edison and the Invention of America

We're surrounded by the fruits of Edison's genius, from electric light to recorded sound. So who was this tireless man, and what are his lessons for us today? More »
The Making of America: The Legacy of F.D.R.

Franklin D. Roosevelt led the U.S. through a depression and a world war. By the time he died, the nation was profoundly changed — and we owe much of the change to him More »
The Seriously Funny Man

Mark Twain was our first great political wit and a dogged defender of racial equality. Jon Stewart, Barack Obama and the rest of America are in his debt More »
Warrior For Peace

His presidency included some of the tensest moments of the cold war, but he was convinced that our true power came from democratic ideals, not military might More »
The Making of America — Theodore Roosevelt

At home and abroad, he was the locomotive president, the man who drew his flourishing nation into the future More »
The True Lincoln

Only now are historians discovering the personal and political depth of the leader who saved the nation More »
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson

He drafted the declaration, sparked a revolution and became ensnared in a sex scandal with a slave. A look at the most controversial president More »
The Amazing Adventures of Ben Franklin

In his time, he was America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, humorist and business strategist More »
Lewis & Clark

How an amazing adventure 200 years ago continues to shape how America sees itself More »