Authentic American Goods Directory

America Still Has the Quality Touch

If you think that America has lost its edge, you need to think again.  It's easy for Americans to become disheartened about our reputation for quality and excellence.  After all, we see problems and failures all around us.  Right?  Wrong.

What we do, as Americans, is take quality and excellence for granted.  We are so accustomed to quality education, quality medicine and medical care, quality food and food service, quality clothing, quality housing, quality mail service (yes, I said quality mail service), quality phone lines, quality electricity and gas services — quality everything — that we can only see the problems as they pop up.

This nation and its people have never been perfect.  Our ideas, our way of life, our efforts to improve ourselves, our vision of the future and what real happiness would be, none of this has ever been perfect.  When we came to this continent, either as nomads across the Bering Sea, or as immigrants from Europe, we came looking for a better opportunity to make our lives a little better.  And we have continued to strive for that goal ever since.

One thing we have is the ability to communicate freely and to share whatever we discover.  When we see a serious problem, we can freely announce it to the rest of the country, and to the world.  That's why much of the news we read, hear, or see is about the problems we have, the poor quality of this or that.  But never forget: If poor quality was the norm, then it would never make the news.

American-made goods still lead the way for creativity, ingenuity and high quality craftsmanship.  When you find something truly made in America, you have often found a real treasure worth buying, using, and keeping.

This directory of American Goods will focus on real things made by real people, right here in America.