In this, the first of a four part series with Hillsdale College, Great American Story: A Land of Hope with Dr. Wilfred M. McClay, one of the nation's foremost historians on America's founding and the Constitution, Charlie and Dr. McClay discuss the vast significance of "the West," the European "unsettlement" and the superiority of English colonization for freedom and economic growth across the world. McClay, who is also the current occupant of the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma, outlines the genesis of the American Revolution all the way up to the emergence of the Declaration of Independence.  

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