Barbara Clark Smith is a curator at the National Museum of American History part of the Smithsonian, and she is part of the team of a new exhibit: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith. There's also a companion book of the same name highlighting parts of the exhibit, and featuring stories by all these exhibit curators. This can mean a great vacation and even an education along the way of the meaning of this long-lived democracy we have.
https://www.si.edu/exhibitions