Searching for the Great American Novel

If nothing else, America has proven to be a place blessed with endless stories, those that feed the soul through tales of heroism, struggle, war, deep strife, and division — and overcoming it. Wilfred McClay, the historian and Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College has lectured often on the importance of telling the whole American story as necessary for a complete civic education, “It is about promoting a vivid and enduring sense of what we have in common, of our belonging to one of the greatest enterprises in human history: the astonishing, perilous, and immensely consequential story of our own great country.”