With a song from 1759 as a mile marker, pianist Lara Downes and historian Jill Lepore examine what this land was like just before it became the United States.

"When you pass on, what you gonna pass down?" the country stars ask in the song, which tells the tale of a landowning family ...

The “Hope Nights Tour” will bring Christian singers Danny Gokey, Jon Reddick, and We Are Messengers to Victorville in April.