AMSI is working to reclaim America’s museums, memorials, and Quarter-Millennial anniversary for the American people.

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Having an Impact

  • AMSI Interviews Ken Burns

    Jeff Anderson and John Fonte interview Ken Burns about his American Revolution documentary. Watch here.

  • AMSI Helps Reclaim President Washington’s Home

    Our recent Claremont Review of Books essay, “Hijacking America's Story,” takes aim at the anti-George Washington, slavery-focused exhibit at the President's House Site at Independence Park in Philadelphia. The administration took note, and the signs came down.

  • Clarence Thomas Quotes Jeff Anderson’s Constitutional Analysis

    Justice Clarence Thomas cites Jeff Anderson in a recent Supreme Court opinion (U.S. v. Hansen, p. 28 in the PDF (p. 4 in Justice Thomas’s concurring opinion)).

  • AMSI on The Andrew Klavan Show

    Jeff Anderson discusses the Left’s efforts to take over America’s museums and monuments, the upcoming Quarter-Millennial anniversary of American independence, and the need to get John Wayne’s American Freedom Train back on the tracks. Watch here.

  • Address to the Philadelphia Society

    What are the five biggest threats to America’s principles? In remarks delivered at the recent Philadelphia Society meeting in Plano, Texas, AMSI president Jeff Anderson draws upon Abraham Lincoln and other great thinkers to answer this question. Read his remarks here.

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Featured Articles

  • The Trump Administration Reclaims Washington’s Home

    The Wall Street Journal
    The National Park Service removed the overwhelmingly negative signs at Independence Park so that George Washington is no longer the most criticized person at the historic site. Read more.

  • Despite Trump's Success, Immigration Isn't 'Solved'

    RealClearPolitics
    The key to President Trump’s success has been securing the border—and the key to that has been enforcing existing immigration laws, especially laws about detaining asylum-seekers. But Trump’s historic success doesn’t mean that the immigration problem is “solved,” as the damage done by President Biden and others will take years to undo. Read more.

  • Hijacking America's Story

    Claremont Review of Books
    Rather than focusing on the watershed events of the George Washington and John Adams presidencies, the signage at Independence Park’s President’s House site focused almost exclusively on slavery. Read more.

  • Ken Burns’ "The American Revolution" Kicks Off the Quarter-Millennial Celebrations

    The Federalist
    Ken Burns’s new documentary provides a welcome focus on America’s fight for independence and, most importantly, reacquaints Americans with George Washington’s heroics.. Read more.

  • Trump Is Right to Fight Wokeness at the Smithsonian

    City Journal
    President Trump is rightly seeking to appropriately celebrate, rather than reflexively condemn, America’s history and heroes. Read more.

  • John Wayne and the American Freedom Train

    RealClearPolitics
    For the 1976 Bicentennial, John Wayne suggested that we have an American Freedom Train bring the country’s history to the people. As we approach the nation’s 250th anniversary, it’s time to reprise the Duke’s idea. Read more.

  • America Needs A Quarter-Millennial Celebration Worthy of Its History

    The Federalist
    We need to reconnect to the “spirit of ’76”—indeed, the upcoming Quarter-Millennial marks the best opportunity in 50 years to reorient the citizenry toward the American Founding. Read more.

  • The Masking of America

    Claremont Review of Books
    ”Many Americans have been taught to believe that masks work—at least a little—and that wearing them comes at a minimal cost. Nearly the opposite is true.” Read more

Key Issues

  • American Way of Life

    American Way of Life

    Defend America’s history and heroes, principles and promise, and remarkable status as a nation conceived in liberty.

  • American Institutions

    Defend America’s governing institutions—as designed by our founders—in compelling and relevant terms.

  • Rule of Law

    Defend law and order in our cities and on our border.

  • Main Street Economics

    Focus on fixing what the federal government has broken, not on giving it more power and money.