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Why was the Constitution Written
There is a story one hears occasionally about Benjamin Franklin strolling along a street in Philadelphia after the convention of 1787 when…
Grow, Don’t Climb
Basil L. Gildersleeve was born October 23, 1831 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was among the first Americans to earn a German…
The Fire of Freedom
On May 31, 1775, the citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina seceded from the British Empire. They did this through a series…
Historical Documents
Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION—1777 1 To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting. Whereas the Delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the fifteenth day of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and…
Commander’s Intent
For more than 2,000 years, thinkers in the West have understood that in order for a people to govern themselves, they must be virtuous. In this tradition there are four cardinal virtues that identify a well-developed person: wisdom, courage, prudence, and justice. Since 1775, the United States Marine Corps has been integral to the security…
Declaration of Independence
In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the…
The Bill of Rights
On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution. The 1789 Joint Resolution of Congress proposing the amendments is on display in the Rotunda in the National Archives Museum. Ten of the proposed 12 amendments were ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures on December 15, 1791….
The Constitution of the United States
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Article. I. Section. 1….
Thinking & Leadership Training
On Reason and Emotion
Speech pathologists in several parts of the country are reporting as much as 300% increases in their business from children struggling to…
Valor and Virtue – Video Interviews with Marines and Leaders
Al Gray Civic Institute News
Welcome, New Board Members!
Carolina Museum of the Marine | Al Gray Civic Institute is honored to welcome new members to our Board of Directors: Mr….
Historians’ Corner
Thoughts on D-Day (6 June 1944)
by LtCol Lynn “Kim” Kimball, USMC (Ret) The Duke of Wellington once famously stated that the Battle of Waterloo was won on…
Atomic Marines
by LtCol Lynn “Kim” Kimball, USMC (Ret) Operation Crossroads’ atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in July of 1946 erased any lingering…
A Brief History Of The Origins Of MCAS New River
MCAS New River traces its origins to the early 1940s when the U.S. military began an unprecedented expansion to meet the rapidly growing threat…
Memory Zone
Museum News
Welcome, New Board Members!
Carolina Museum of the Marine | Al Gray Civic Institute is honored to welcome new members to our Board of Directors: Mr….
