
Stories of hope, inspiration, and innovation in American history. I'm interested in people who have helped our country live up to its promise.
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Two years ago today, I launched “What’s Gone Right” and sent my first essay (about Kathrine Switzer) to 5 subscribers (my family!). Since then, I’ve written more than 120 original essays about people, organizations, books/movies, ideas, mov...
The past is a hot topic of contemporary conversation — high-profile challenges to museum exhibits, angry arguments about history books, pointed questions about historical interpretations . . . We fight over history because how we describe t...
My kids don’t believe this, but I didn’t like going to museums when I was younger. We traveled frequently as a family, and in each new place my dad insisted on going to local museums. I developed a severe case of what my mom jokingly called...
What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself. — Mollie Beattie
Thank you to my mother-in-law (and longtime “What’s Gone Right” reader), Jean Seager, for recommending this topic. If there’s one lesson I’ve le...
Like many of you, my family and I have been glued to the World Cup the past couple weeks. Perhaps more fun even than the soccer has been seeing international fans encounter America – the real America, not the caricature they may have seen i...
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Historian, author, husband, dad, coach, & pragmatic idealist in central Maine. I write about people who help America live up to its promise.
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