June 27, 2026
Professor Timothy Snyder: The United States Was NOT Founded as a Christian Nation
In this YouTube Short, American historian Timothy Snyder — who holds the Temerty Chair in Modern European History at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto in Canada — explains that the United States was not founded as a Christian Nation.
The U.S. was not founded on Christian principles
For more on this subject, navigate to EPISODES and listen to Series 300 ("A Christian Nation?") of our podcast.
Population Expansion Under Internal Improvements
The map below features 4 snapshots of the American population and density from 1790 (Top Left) 1800, 1810, and 1820. This is immediately before the country invested heavily in domestic transportation infrastructure, to connect to their massive terri…
Internal Improvements: A Look Back
When John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay talked about “Internal Improvements” and the “American System” in the 1820s, they were imagining an America that did not really exist yet, and was very difficult for most to conceptualize. The country had enormo…
