Watch PRI's new America 250 video series

MUST WATCH: PRI Launches Video Series Celebrating 250 Years of American Exceptionalism

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As part of PRI’s celebration of America’s 250th birthday, we are releasing a series of short videos ([link removed] ) to bring to life unsung heroes from California and across the country.

Their stories are different. The argument they make is the same. American greatness is not handed down from above. It is built from the ground up, by people with the courage to act on what they believed.

The people we highlight below built, published, created and advocated within the institutions available to them and, when those institutions were inadequate, they built new ones.

Here are a few of the unsung heroes we profile:

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R.C. Hoiles ([link removed] ) , the publisher of the Orange County Register, who had the courage to be right and stand against the crowd when the crowd was wrong on Japanese internment.

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Carl Laemmle and Louis B. Mayer ([link removed] ) , two immigrant entrepreneurs who turned a novelty - filmmaking - into the most powerful cultural export in American history.

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Sarah Josepha Hale ([link removed] ) , a writer and editor who shaped popular culture trends long before Vogue and gave a divided nation a reason to gather at the same table - Thanksgiving.

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Which Founding Father signed the Declaration of Independence, served as a battlefield surgeon, shaped public education, and fought for mental health reform? His name may not be as familiar as Jefferson, Hamilton, or Franklin, but Benjamin Rush ([link removed] ) left a legacy rivaling any of America’s founders.

As part of PRI's America 250 initiative, we have also released a series of supplemental lesson plans to complement our video series and bring these unsung heroes into classrooms across California and the country. Teachers who are interested in receiving the lesson plans can click here ([link removed] ) to sign up to receive them.

With July 4 drawing near, we hope that you will take the time to watch PRI's America 250 video series. After all, a country that forgets how it was actually built will struggle to build anything worth keeping.

The stories of the individuals we are highlighting in our video series provide the lessons that will make the next 250 years of American exceptionalism possible.

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