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But Do Americans Really Understand Their Revolution?<\/p>\n

By Nancy Spannaus<\/p>\n

Nov. 14, 2025\u2013My book From Subject to Citizen: What Americans Need to Know about Their Revolution <\/em>was written as a challenge to my fellow American citizens.<\/p>\n

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The author at a book fair last spring, soon after the book\u2019s publication.Our republic is in crisis, wracked by bitter political divides. Yet most partisans on all sides are, from my experience, woefully ignorant of many of our basic founding principles.<\/p>\n

Cultural wedge issues from today are used by some to reject the sincerity of our founding principles, while for others, our Constitutional commitments have become discretionary if they interfere with the so-called will of the majority.<\/p>\n

Film director Ken Burns has produced a 12 hour documentary to try to set the record straight. My contribution is a 250-page book featuring 22 articles about the process of the Revolution from approximately 1760 to 1787. Together, they serve as a badly needed refresher course on our Revolution.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the challenging ideas in my book:<\/p>\n