Nine Moments That Could Have Ended America, But Didn’t
A frozen river. A starving winter camp. A victorious general who walked away. The American moments that decided everything.
Every generation has a moment where it feels like everything is crashing.
You’ve probably felt one yourself.
The Great Depression. Two world wars.
9/11. The 2008 financial crisis. COVID.
A contested presidential election that half the country was certain would end the republic.
Tempting to think these are country-shattering tests. They aren’t. America has faced great tests and long odds many times and survived.
Even prospered.
On America’s 250th anniversary, we study nine turning points when the nation’s history hung in the balance: one bad decision or a lost battle could have ended everything.
America came out stronger.
