It’s hard to love an ugly founding. Was America ill-founded, well-founded, even incompletely founded? Each of these judgments captures some essential part of the American story. Choose a date when the founding started and you will probably get a different America: 1492, 1619, 1620, 1776, 1787, 1863 . . . 2026? Take, for example, 1492. … Continue reading The Project to Understand America