American Media
We found it.
Ten peoples. One country they made together. The portraits are here, and so is the number, so a glad evening is easy to find.
Start with the glad ones
The highest marks. An evening the whole house can keep.
83 scored
10 stories
English
New England and the colonial foundation. Law, a congregation, a town meeting, and a conscience that can stand against the room.
16 stories
Scots-Irish
The frontier and the mountains. A rifle, a Bible, a clan, and a man who will not hand his house to the state or the wilderness.
8 stories
German
The Midwest and the Pennsylvania plain. Work on the land, a parish, and a house that keeps its own boundary.
6 stories
Scandinavian
The northern plains. A hard climate, a sober faith, and people who stay after the first winter.
9 stories
Italian
The parish and the block. An extended family, a table, and the question of whether loyalty has a law above it.
8 stories
Irish
The parish, the precinct, and the Sunday table. Faith under pressure, and the fight not to let the fight become the man.
7 stories
Polish and Central European
The mill town and the Catholic parish. A wedding, a shift, and what a war does to the men who come home.
5 stories
Dutch
The Hudson Valley. Land held, a Calvinist order, and the old families who mistook their manners for a morality.
6 stories
French, Acadian, and Cajun
The mill towns and the bayous. A Catholic people who kept a language and a table inside someone else's country.
8 stories
The people together
Where the separate stocks become one American household: a town, a company of men, a river, a claim.
