If you haven’t ventured over to the America 250 link on Whitehouse.gov, this Independence weekend is the perfect time. In partnership with Prager U, the White House has launched the “Founders Museum,” with videos that feature AI representations of the founders and revolutionaries of our republic. With the representation of each biography and their contributions to the founding of our nation, the AI animations put forth a challenge to the viewer on how one should carry forward liberty and what was fought and paid for through their sacrifice.

Among the well-known leaders like Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson, lawyer and leader in the Continental Congress John Adams, publisher, inventor and diplomat Benjamin Franklin, and merchant and president of the Continental Congress John Hancock, are also the founders who are recorded in the annals of history, but scantily mentioned in the larger story.

Francis Lewis is one, a businessman and one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. Lewis paid dearly for his treason against King George III. The loyalists burned his Long Island home and imprisoned his wife Elizabeth, who subsequently died soon after her release. The video quotes Lewis as saying, “Freedom demands much of us. But what it gives is return… is everything.”

Also Richard Stockton, the “reluctant” revolutionary who was imprisoned in New York. Stockton’s challenge to us in the video is, “Let them who inherit this liberty remember: it is not forged in comfort, but in trial. It is not kept by ease, but by resolve.”

Or Oliver Wolcott, a lawman and a doctor. Wolcott witnessed the statue of King George III being toppled by Patriots in New York at Bowling Green. Wolcott took the remains of the statue home, and he and his family melted the lead into bullets for the war effort. “We took a symbol of tyranny, and turned it into ammunition for liberty,” the video intoned.

His challenge to us: “Even now, I believe: What we tear down must serve to build something better. Let your hands be ready–for labor and liberty both.”

Not to be forgotten are the women of the Revolution. Betsy Ross, the woman who stitched the first American flag, Martha Washington, and Abigail Adams, who remind us that, “The Revolution was not just fought on battlefields, it was endured in kitchens, cabins, and quiet prayers.”

AI Martha Washington challenged, “Freedom is not the burden of soldiers alone. It belongs to all of us. My duty is done. Yours is not. Carry it well. And if ever you wonder what one soul can do in great times, remember mine.”

These also include lesser mentioned women, like Marcy Otis Warren, and my personal favorite, Phyllis Wheatley.

The videos can be viewed individually, in their respective series (Founding Fathers, Ladies of the Revolution, Major Events, and Declaration of Independence Signers), or as a whole unit. The section also includes a learning option with downloadable biographies, portraits, and documents that allow one to create their own “Founders Museum.” 

It is a living, interactive, and dynamic rendering of America’s founding history that is being added to daily as we march toward July 4, 2026, and the celebration of America’s 250th birthday.

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