Gunton realized that there had never been “a series about the whole of the Americas,” he says, referring to North, South, and Central. It’s the only continent to stretch between both poles ...

Early in the nineteenth century, John Quincy Adams wrote: “The whole continent of North America appears to be destined by Divine Providence to be peopled by one nation.” [1] In 1832 ...

“Hanks later said, ‘I was born to narrate this story,’” relates Gunton, who calls the actor “the voice of America ... the vast expanse of our continent and its inhabitants are ...