The
year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the
founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American
Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to
reintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance.
In
the final volume of this eight-book series, historians explore how generations
of Americans have defined, debated, and drawn on the memory of the American
Revolution. From the early republic to the present, Americans have repeatedly
written new histories of their independence movement and centered "the Spirit
of '76" in their arts and civic initiatives as a way to make sense of
contemporary challenges.
Studying
the American Revolution's legacy shows how it has shaped American civic
education, informed American culture, and enabled citizens to fashion a shared
identity in a pluralistic nation.
Brookhiser, Richard: - Richard
Brookhiser is an American journalist, biographer, and
historian. He is a senior editor at National
Review. He is most widely known for a series of biographies of America's
founders, including Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, and George
Washington.
Guelzo, Allen C.: - Allen
C. Guelzo is a nonresident senior fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute and a professor of humanities at the Hamilton School for
Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. He is the author of
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (1999), among many other books.
Kamensky, Jane: - Jane
Kamensky is president and CEO
of Monticello and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. She was the Jonathan
Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University and is the author
of A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley (2016), among many
other books.
Koganson, Rita: - Rita
Koganzon is an associate professor at the School of
Civic Life and Leadership at the University of North Carolina and the author of
Liberal States, Authoritarian Families:
Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought (2021).
Levin, Yuval: - Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and
Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where he also
holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founder and editor
of National Affairs, he is also a
senior editor at The New Atlantis, a
contributing editor at National Review,
and a contributing opinion writer at The
New York Times.
McClay, Wilfred: - Wilfred
McClay is the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical
History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College and the author of The
Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (1994).
White, Adam J.: - Adam J. White is the Laurence H. Silberman Chair in
Constitutional Governance and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise
Institute, where he focuses on the Supreme Court and the administrative state.
Concurrently, he directs the Antonin Scalia Law School's C. Boyden Gray Center
for the Study of the Administrative State.
Yoo, John: - John
Yoo is a nonresident senior fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute; the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University
of California, Berkeley; and a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute
at the University of Texas at Austin.
