What Does It Mean to Be an American?

"The Real Birth of American Democracy"

•  Joseph Stromberg

• Other

"What Does it Mean to be an American?"

• Amy Pearl & Jennifer Hsu

• Other

“To Understand How Religion Shapes America, Look to Its Early Days”

• Tom Gjelten

• Journalismsite

“What the Declaration of Independence Really Claimed”

• Randy Barnett

• Journalism

"The 14th Amendment’s Tortuous Relationship with American Indians"

•  Scott Bomboy

• Essay

"Americans"

•  Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

• Other

"'I Do Not Identify as American': A Native Perspective on Identity"

• Tanzina Vega and Ellen Frankman

• Other

"American Citizenship for Natives Was Withheld, Then Rights Were Long-Ignored"

•  Ruth Hopkins

• Journalism

"How the 14th Amendment's Promise of Birthright Citizenship Redefined America"

•  Martha S. Jones

• Other

"What Makes an American an American?"

•  J. Carlisle Larsen

• Other

"A July 4 Tradition: NPR Reads the Declaration of Independence"

•  Thomas Jefferson, read by NPR Staff

• Government Document

"The Way North"

•  Damien Cave and Todd Heisler

• Journalism

"Most Americans Express Positive Views of Country’s Growing Racial and Ethnic Diversity"

•  Hannah Fingerhut

• Other

"The Cost of War for the U.S. Taxpayer since 9/11 Is Actually Three Times the Pentagon’s Estimate"

• Jack Moore

• Other

“The American Road Trip Tradition”

• Farah Al Qasimi and Liana Aghajanian

• Journalism

Excerpt from "Immigration & Civics: What Every American Should Know"

•  The Aspen Institute

• Report