1776 Engage at the Bush Center " The eagle is clutching

" The eagle is clutching an olive branch (with 13 olives and 13 leaves) in one foot (symbolizing peace) and 13 arrows in the other (the 13 stands for the original 13 colonies and the arrows symbolize the acceptance of the need to go to war to protect the country)

a pair of Mexican Catholic priests

Jenna remembers the past

takes us from her Western childhood in Wyoming and Colorado to a chance meeting on an airplane that changed her life entirely

1776 Engage at the Bush Center " The eagle is clutchingAmerica's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that placed America's survival in the hands of George Washington. In this masterful book, David McCullough tells