Fox News co-anchor John Roberts has the latest after President-elect Donald Trump nominates Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg to serve as assistant to the president and special envoy to Ukraine and Russia on 'America Reports.'

In the ancient world, the Pax Romana was a legendary historical period during which the western world, under the influence of the Roman Empire, enjoyed 200 years of relative peace, stability and prosperity. Commencing its founding under Caesar Augustus and ending with the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the Pax Romana was marked by lower levels of violence, increasing trade and territorial expansion that saw peak Rome preside over around one-third of the global population.

Since that time, there have been a number of eras so similarly named, but none as dynamic as the current one: Pax Americana. Typically dated from the conclusion of World War II in 1945, the Pax Americana is the era of peace, prosperity and progress American power has offered the world since partnering with our allies to slay fascism and confront communism. Many predicted this epoch peaked with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and ended with the Iraq War in the early 2000s. But as the Pax Americana turns 80, it now seems alive, well and poised to assure a second American century.

That’s an unabashedly good thing. Americans are losing faith in their institutions, but shouldn’t doubt the immense good their country has created for the world. American global dominance has unleashed the best sustained period in world history. The seeds of Pax Americana date to the conclusion of the Civil War when the United States purged its vilest and most illiberal institution, the U.S. shortly entered a period of industrialization and transformation. Entrepreneurs like Rockefeller and Carnegie became some of the richest men in history —Rockefeller’s Standard Oil once dominating the global oil market. And America began playing an important political and economic role internationally. American leaders like Washington and Lincoln loomed large in the international imagination. Teddy Roosevelt won a Nobel Prize for negotiating an end to the Russo-Japanese War. The U.S. played a critical role in WWI. And while Woodrow Wilson’s missteps contributed mightily to the Second World War, by 1945 America was the most powerful country in history.

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