Many Americans are familiar with the story of the Pilgrims who stepped ashore at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Just as many perhaps remember what they learned at school about the “Shot Heard Round the World” which occurred at the Battle of Lexington in 1775. But how many are familiar with extraordinary series of events - the “deep history” of our country - that took place in the 150 years that separate those two great milestones? It was in fact during that remarkable era that the idea of “America” - an idea and a reality unique in the history of the world - was born. American History Revealed takes an intimate, immersive, unprejudiced look at that history and examines how through trial and error, success and failure, triumph and tragedy, our great nation became the country it is - and how we Americans became the people we are.