Group Description

In part owing to America’s founding principles – and notwithstanding grievous departures from them – the American republic has developed into the freest, most prosperous, and most tolerant great power in history. Research on the history of American development, of other cases – historical and contemporary – of self-government, and of authoritarian regimes, is essential to preserving and promoting America’s freedom and prosperity in the 21st century. America’s well-being requires a commitment by citizens to the common goods of national security and shared prosperity; and it is indissolubly bound up with affairs in every region of the globe.