Tap a marker to open its stories. Positions are approximate on this historical map.
View the full map and source- Independence Hall · 1787
- Franklin Court · 1763
- Independence Hall · 1776
- Carpenters' Hall · 1774
- Congress Hall · 1790
Choose a story
Three founding texts of the American republic, in their original words. Pick one, read it, and talk about what it means — the choice, the virtue, your own life — with your Civics Coach, who asks instead of tells.
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- Union — The Preamble to the Constitution Union
- Justification — The Declaration of Independence, Opening Justification
- Consent — The Declaration of Independence Consent
- The Burden of Proof — Why Change Governments Carefully The Burden of Proof
- Consent of Law — The Declaration's Charges on Governance Consent of Law
- Ordinary Governance — More Charges Against the King Ordinary Governance
- Rule by Decree — The Acts of "Pretended Legislation" Rule by Decree
- Cost of Tyranny — The Declaration's Charges on War Cost of Tyranny
- Exhausted Remedy — Petitioned and Ignored Exhausted Remedy
- Exhausted Patience — The Declaration's Appeal to Britain Exhausted Patience
- The Break — The Declaration's Final Paragraph The Break
- Structural Design — Federalist No. 51, Opening Structural Design
- Independence of Departments — Federalist No. 51 Independence of Departments
- Ambition Countering Ambition — Federalist No. 51 Ambition Countering Ambition
- Checks & Balances — Federalist No. 51 Checks & Balances
- Checking Power With Power — Federalist No. 51 Checking Power With Power
- Testing the Design — Federalist No. 51 Testing the Design
- Guarding the Minority — Federalist No. 51 Guarding the Minority
- Multiplicity as Safeguard — Federalist No. 51 Multiplicity as Safeguard
- The Extended Republic — Federalist No. 51, Closing The Extended Republic
Read the story above, then talk it over with your Civics Coach — this is about what the story means and what you would do, not a quiz on what happened. Type, or tap the mic to speak. Story listening uses the original telling. Select the original text to hear an individual sentence.
Off by default — the student chooses their own lens under "Think deeper". Pick one here and the lesson opens already pointed through that tradition, so a class can argue the same story from the same angle.
Off by default. A teacher turns this on when they want a visible session timer and a timestamped record of how long the work took.
Assign these questions
A teacher or a parent picks the story and assigns its questions — one chapter at a time, not a whole book.
What was saved
This is the real conversation from this device — a teacher would read it, and hear it read back.