Top Highlights

• To anyone in the world, a Yankee is an American. To an American, a Yankee is a Northerner. To a Northerner, a Yankee is someone from New England. To a New Englander, a Yankee is a farmer from Vermont who wears galoshes year round and eats apple pie for breakfast.
• In the last three generations, our high school and college core curricula have shown a steady decrease in civics, world history, Western civilization, and United States history requirements.
• There is always a story, and there is always a story behind the story—a backstory.
• In the early 1700s, as an English territory, we also became British, when with the Treaty of Union in 1706, Scotland, Wales, and England became Great Britain.
• In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, what became English North America emerged as thirteen individual and to some extent self-governing colonies, each with its own story of beginnings in grant, charter, or corporation in England, and each independent of the others.