Ahmet Ertegun did as much as anyone to shape the popular music that serves as the soundtrack for our daily lives. As the founder and leader of Atlantic Records for almost sixty years, he brought us artists from Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin to Crosby, Stills, Nash,...
Few business leaders or entrepreneurs in American history have done more to enable progress and prosperity than Samuel Insull, a name little known today. Yet eighty years ago, he was one of the most famous people in America and Europe—and one of the most despised....
Click here to open the PDF in a new tab. Key Findings Regardless of political ideology, religion, race/ethnicity, gender, age, education level, or income, most Americans are proud to be American. Americans report a wide range of reasons for their national pride but...
This article was originally published on InsiderSources. At its core, the American Dream is the vision statement for the United States. Its most common definition, first coined by the author James Truslow Adams, is the dream of a land where people seek to live...
Preface: A Most Controversial Man In this story, we address the life and work of Walter Elias Disney, one of the most famous men in the world. Telling this story brings special challenges. Over the last two years, we at the Archbridge Institute have written the life...