Founded in 1995, the American Village serves the Nation as an educational institution whose mission is to strengthen and renew the foundations of American liberty and self-government by engaging and inspiring citizens, leaders and stewards. MORE
Teaching Youth America’s Legacy of Liberty
The American Village builds good citizens on the cornerstone of liberty. The American Village is a nationally-pioneering classroom and American history and civics education center that engages and inspires 35,000-40,000 students annually. MORE
Remembering the Price of Liberty
The timeless lesson of liberty is that freedom is not free. The American Village tells the compelling stories not only of America’s legacy of liberty, but of thise in every generation who have served and sacrificed for that cause. MORE
Cherishing the Constitution and America’s Charters of Freedom
Our country faces growing national amnesia of the constitutional foundations of our freedom and self-government. On most school days at the American Village students step into roles as delegates to MORE
Tom Walker, Founder and CEO of the American
Village, has been named 2014 Citizen of the Year by The Women's Committee of 100
for Birmingham. 