July 2017 — Celebrate America’s Independence With a Trip Back to 1776 A lot was happening in the Colonies during the summer of 1776. On July 2nd, the legal separation of the... Read More
June 2017 — Learn to Think Like a Historian at George Washington’s Mount Vernon and the Fred W. Smith National Library It was the day before the presidential inauguration of 2017 when a school bus filled with students from Lake Forest... Read More
April 2017 — Happy Birthday, James Monroe (April 28, 1758), the 5th U.S. President (1817-1825) It is with great pleasure that we dedicate the April 2017 issue of the Grateful American™ Magazine to the fifth U.S. president —... Read More
March 2017: Students Are Opposing Slavery — Join the Revolution! Slavery. It’s an issue that still exists today. In 2012, four teens founded Students Opposing Slavery at President Lincoln’s Cottage — the... Read More
February 2017: Happy 3rd Anniversary to David Bruce Smith’s Grateful American™ Foundation February 20, 2017 is the third anniversary of David Bruce Smith’s Grateful American™ Foundation, an organization dedicated to restoring enthusiasm in American history... Read More
January 2017: What inspired Patrick Henry to proclaim, “Give me Liberty or Give me Death!”? On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered his famous “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech at St. John’s Church in Richmond, VA, at the second... Read More
December 2016: Grateful American™ Kids Introduce Us to Revolutionary Era Painter Charles Willson Peale Revolutionary Era artist Charles Willson Peale’s long life spanned a period of dramatic changes in America, and in American art. Born... Read More
November 2016: Should the British Have Won the Revolutionary War? Monticello’s VP Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy Explains That — and More! The British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. So why did they lose the American Colonies... Read More
October 2016: The Man Behind the Musical: Discovering “Hamilton” If you didn’t know much about Alexander Hamilton before the hit show “Hamilton” took Broadway by storm in 2015, odds are... Read More
September 2016: Picture Perfect: Roz Schanzer Is Illustrating American History If you have never been excited about American history, you likely haven’t read one of Rosalyn Schanzer’s illustrated picture books.... Read More
August 2016: Who Was “The First Emancipator”? We know that Abraham Lincoln — as well as several of the Founding Fathers — wanted to abolish slavery in the United States. But... Read More
July 2016: Grateful American™ Kids Rock — and Here’s Why! David Bruce Smith’s Grateful American™ Foundation is proud to release the “Grateful American™ Kids Rock!” music video, which stars 30 students from The Steward... Read More
