Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson - these are just three of the renowned authors whose work is cited.

American democracy has a lineage of written records that we can trace to show the development of our nation, and how each document builds on those before it to make our foundation of freedom stronger. In this video, we look at the documents conceived in the early 1860s and during the Civil War and the years immediately following.

Explores the enormous social and cultural changes of the 1920s, an era of prosperity, rapid industrialization, social experimentation, and artistic renaissance.