American University Perspectives Current Issue Best Nest: Brotherly Love, Sisterly Affection Bruce Bohri, CAS/BA ’11, on the city that proves its gruff exterior hides a massive heart
American University Insights and Impact Current Issue A Private Life in the Public Eye SPA’s Anita McBride chronicles how first ladies have balanced personal privacy and intense scrutiny to wield political and cultural influence
American University Insights and Impact Current Issue Flagging the Facts US Census questions expose the complex history of identity in Gail Rebhan’s new AU Museum exhibit
American University Perspectives Current Issue A Poem to Remember Mourning his longtime artistic partner, Kwame Alexander found healing in Langston Hughes’s minimalist verse
American University Perspectives Current Issue An American Sound Trace America’s “classical music” through the definitive albums that shaped its transition from big-band swing to high art
American University Insights and Impact Current Issue Manual: America’s Other Founding Document Thomas Jefferson wasn’t the first to write about “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
American University Perspectives Current Issue My Favorites: Curating the Revolution Matthew Skic, CAS/BA ’14, showcases 10 artifacts that bring the struggles and realities of the nation’s founding to life
American University Insights and Impact Current Issue America, Documented Explore how the power of evolving language literally spoke the American experiment into being
American University Inside the Beltway Current Issue A Work in Progress Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III, CAS/BA ’74, MA ’76, champions history of, by, and for the people
American University Insights and Impact Current Issue Hearth and Liberty Beyond the famous battlefields, the true fight for survival happened at home
American University Insights and Impact Current Issue 3 Minutes on Fourth of July Fireworks From backyard sparklers to stadium-sized spectaculars, light the fuse on the history and science behind America’s favorite summer tradition
American University 4400 Mass Ave Current Issue Syllabus: Founding a New Perspective Step inside the AU classroom challenging the narrative of 1776 by exposing the contradictions of our origin story
American University 4400 Mass Ave Current Issue Value Added For AU students, a degree isn’t just a milestone—it’s a powerful tool to lift up communities and compound positive change
American University 4400 Mass Ave Current Issue We the Students SOC’s inaugural speechwriting contest showcases the fierce civic imagination reshaping our democracy
American University Perspectives Current Issue A Fan’s Fidelity Interim President David Marchick shares how the heartbreaking collapse of the 1970s Oakland A’s taught him an unexpected lesson about patriotism
American University Perspectives Current Issue The Fabric of Our Union Editor Adrienne Frank on why the American flag represents both our greatest triumphs and our deepest shortcomings
American University Insights and Impact Current Issue Q&A: The Fabric of Fiction Les Whitehead, CAS/MA ’25, unravels the Betsy Ross myth and the real history of Philadelphia’s favorite flagmaker
American University 4400 Mass Ave Current Issue Be Our Guest: Spring 2026 From the power of Gen Z voters to the necessity of bipartisan unity, explore insights from AU’s most impactful speakers during the nation’s 250th year
American University Inside the Beltway Current Issue A Congress of Eagles With over 300 alumni working on Capitol Hill, AU’s founding vision of training future civic leaders is on full display
American University Insights and Impact Current Issue The Mother of Reinvention History professor Kate Haulman reveals how Mary Ball Washington was repeatedly refashioned to suit the evolving motives of the nation
American University Nostalgia Current Issue History, Shipshape The SS American Victory survived decades of global conflict to become a living, sailing testament to the nation’s industrial might
American University Perspectives Current Issue The Incommunicable Past From Gatsby to Beloved, the clash of optimism and tragic reality defines American literature
American University Insights and Impact Current Issue All in the Family Historian Karin Wulf, CAS/BA ’85, reveals that early America was built by deeply interconnected familial webs—not solitary individuals
