There is no doubt that America is a great country. Our Constitution saw to that. But long before 1787, America was a great land. And for almost 300 years before our democracy was established, it was the natural wonders of the newly discovered continent that brought settlers here.

Throughout history, every culture was an evolution of what came before it. America, though, was destined to be unique because the earliest immigrants gave up almost everything they had known to start anew.