America’s 250th year arrives not merely as a milestone to celebrate, but as a moment to reflect. Her history is a remarkable story of faith, courage, and sacrifice—but her future depends on whether the principles that forged the Republic are remembered or forgotten. As courts legislate from the bench, families fracture, borders blur, pulpits grow silent, and freedoms are surrendered in the name of crisis, the statement Franklin posed in 1787 confronts us again: A Republic if you can keep it.

America’s hope has never rested in politics alone—nor in nostalgia for a distant past—but in remembering and reclaiming the foundations upon which she was built.

From 1776 to 1783, Providence shaped a people who believed that rights come from God, that liberty requires virtue, that truth must be spoken freely, and that power must remain accountable to the people. Those decisive years—from the Declaration to Yorktown, and from Yorktown to Washington’s surrender of military authority—this seven-year period forms the true arc of America’s birth and its enduring lessons.

In America at 250: A Republic If You Can Keep It, Douglas D. Stauffer guides readers month-by-month through the spiritual, historical, and moral pillars of the founding era. Drawing from Scripture, original sources, and the words of the Founders themselves, this book explores:

• Why the Founders rejected democracy and chose a constitutional Republic
• How faith shaped the fight for independence and the formation of law
• Why liberty collapses when virtue disappears
• How the family, church, and education sustain a free people
• Why free speech, due process, and restrained courts are essential to survival
• How nations lose freedom through fear, crisis, and compliance
• Why divided loyalties and forgotten oaths destroy Republics
• And why no constitution can save a people who forget God or serve another

This book is both a celebration and a summons—calling Americans to recover the truths that once anchored the nation and still can.

If America is to endure as a free and united Republic, she must not merely remember her past—she must reclaim it. The hour is late—the warning is clear. And this Republic is still worth keeping.

• Model: Third Printing
• Manufacturer: McCowen Mills Publishers