Andrew Jackson’s plantation outside Nashville — the house, the people enslaved there, and a complicated legacy told honestly.

How Jefferson’s ‘pursuit of happiness’ runs from the Declaration of Independence to Walt Disney’s Florida — an idea we traced with five kids across America.

St. Augustine, Florida with five kids — the Spanish fort, the old streets, and what being first in America really means.

Plymouth with five kids — the Rock, the cramped lower deck of the Mayflower II, and the fuller, harder story behind the one we tell each Thanksgiving.

Bringing history alive for kids isn’t dates and battles — it’s imagining daily life, from Washington’s rooms at Mount Vernon to the people who worked them.

Colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown with five kids — the tradespeople, the reenactments, and which history gets preserved.

Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell with five kids — the compromises struck in Philadelphia, and the unfinished struggles they left behind.

Monticello and Montpelier with five kids — the Virginia homes of the first presidents, farmers and lawyers both, and the enslaved households behind the columns.

Two nations, two convict pasts — why Australia preserves its convict history at Tasmania’s Port Arthur while America’s is largely forgotten, with kids.

Old Sturbridge Village with five kids — an 1830s New England town brought to life, the blacksmith and the mills, and how everyday craft work turned into art.

How literature can supercharge mere humans — teaching poetry and politics to five kids on the road, and why the right words outlast the people who wrote them.

After nearly five years in Australia, we’re back on American soil and setting off on a cross-country road trip to reconnect our five kids with the country, its people, and our roots.