Museum of American Exceptionalism
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Grit

Long odds, taken anyway.

1804–1980 · 4 exhibits
  1. 1925Opening soonThe Serum Run to NomeTwenty mushers and their dogs carried diphtheria serum through an Alaskan blizzard in five and a half days.674miles
  2. Jesse Owens in flight in the long jump at the Olympic Stadium, Berlin, August 1936
    1936Open nowFour Golds in BerlinIn Hitler’s Olympic stadium, a sharecropper’s son from Alabama won the 100, the 200, the long jump and the relay.4gold medals
  3. 1963Opening soonAmericans on EverestAn American team put six men on top of the world, and two of them made the first traverse of the summit.29,028feet
  4. USA vs. Soviet Union, Lake Placid, February 22, 1980 (Mike Ramsey #5 with the puck)
    1980Open nowMiracle on IceA team of college and amateur players beat the Soviet machine at Lake Placid.4–3final score