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Photo: Colorado River flowing through canyon walls

The Colorado River winds through Nankoweap Canyon in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.

Photograph by Ralph Lee Hopkins

Relics of the American narrative's most iconic moments—Mount Vernon, Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty—are newly polished and await inspection. • The narrative itself opens one unlikely new chapter after another, each, it seems, of palpable interest around the globe. • Spend time in a small town, suburban mall, big-city downtown, though, and you feel it: Difficult times beget gnawing uncertainty. • But America's strength remains, and her resiliency is great. • The dream endures.

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