Drawing heavily on research presented by Abram Van Engen in his 2020 volume, City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism, the introductory session of the 4-part series explores the origins and use of "a city on a hill" as one expression of the American dream. Biblical sources and presidential usages of the phrase contribute to the complexity that the phrase carries today. (Correction: the speaker incorrectly identified UN membership as comprising 167 nation-states; in fact, there are 193.)
