Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution

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Published under the auspices of the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution is a narrative history of the War for Independence. It tells the pivotal story of the courageous men and women who risked their lives to create a new nation based on the idea that government should serve people and protect their freedom. Written for Americans intent on understanding our national origins, but also appropriate for teachers and secondary classrooms, Freedom argues that the American Revolution is the central event in our history: the turning point between our colonial origins and our national experience. This volume includes 167 full-color paintings, maps, illustrations, and photos—many of them seen only in historical institutions across the country!

The Freedom narrative spans from the American Revolution’s origins in the nature of colonial British America—a society in which freedom was limited and in which everyone was the subject of a distant monarch—through the crisis in the British Empire that followed the French and Indian War, to the events of the War for Independence itself, and ultimately to the creation of the first great republic in modern history. This is the story of how Americans came to fight for their freedom and became a united people, with a shared history and national identity, and how a generation of founders expressed ideals of liberty, equality, natural and civil rights, and responsible citizenship: ideals that have shaped our history and will shape our future—and the future of the world.

From the Publisher

Excerpt—Prologue: Why is America Free?

This book tells the story of how Americans came to fight for their freedom, how they won their independence in the Revolutionary War, established a republican system of government, and became a united people, with a shared history and national identity. It is a story in which all Americans, whatever their background, can take pride. It is a great story, full of courageous men and women who risked their lives to create a new nation based on the idea that government should serve people and protect their freedom.

Excerpt—Chapter 7: Americans Unite

The period of calm after the repeal of the Townshend duties and the withdrawal of the army from Boston was deceptive. Gangs no longer intimidated shopkeepers accused of selling imported goods and British soldiers no longer traded insults and blows with the people of Boston, but the issues that had divided the British government and the colonies since 1763 had not been resolved.

Excerpt—Chapter 21: A More Perfect Union

The practical implementation of a theory of popular sovereignty on a national scale was so new that it baffled many of the delegates who gathered in Philadelphia for the Federal Convention, and their anxieties about the critical circumstances of the Confederation obscured their ability to imagine the future of democratic government. Ambitious reformers, including James Madison, were wracked by doubts about the future of the republic and the government they created. None approached that future with as much confidence as James Wilson, who imagined, he said, “the influence which the Government we are to form will have, not only on our people and their multiplied posterity, but on the whole Globe.”

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lyons Press (October 3, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 488 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 149307170X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1493071708
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.61 x 1.29 x 10.83 inches