In less than two centuries the United States evolved from an assemblage of colonial possessions into a global superpower. Chris O’Sullivan will lead us on an exploration of the key personalities and themes in the history of America’s rise in the world and will assess numerous influential figures such as Benjamin Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, William Henry Seward, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, George Marshall, Dean Acheson, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, among many others.