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How a museum artifact in the form of an American Revolutionary War drum triggered interest in that drum and the 15-year-old soldier who carried it. Andrew Ream, a humble young man from Reamstown, Pennsylvania, served as the Drummer Boy at the 1778 Battle of Monmouth New Jersey. Two of Andrew's fourth great-grandchildren explore how that drum came to be preserved over 350 miles away in Western Pennsylvania.

President Trump’s Advisory 1776 Commission released its 1776 Report on Monday January 18, 2021. "In the course of human events there have always been those who deny or reject human freedom, but Americans will never falter in defending the fundamental truths of human liberty proclaimed on July 4, 1776. We will—we must—always hold these truths. The declared purpose of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission is to “enable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776 and to strive to form a more perfect Union.” This requires a restoration of American education, which can only be grounded on a history of those principles that is ...