Still Searching for America

Now the onlely way to... provide for ouir posterity is to... doe Justly, to love mercy, to walke humbly with our God, for this end, wee must be knitt together in this worke as one man,... allwayes haveing before ouir eyes... our Community as members of the same body.... [F]or wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are upon us... (1). Much like John Winthrop boarded ship with other Puritans bound for the New World in 1630, so did teachers in Wisconsin embark on a conversation about American identity in 2001. Although the analogy is not perfect, 24 teachers, curriculum developers, and scholars in history, humanities, and education did spend three years revisiting landmarks in the evolution of this great national experiment. I got to be their John Winthrop (2). Our mission was to

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