Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America’s Founding Ideas (America: a Cultural History)
Author: David Hackett Fischer
This book studies American ideas of liberty and freedom as visions of an open society, through the symbols they have inspired from the Revolutionary era through 9/11. Before 1776, a variety of icons appeared throughout the colonies: New England’s Liberty Trees, New York’s Liberty Poles, Pennsylvania’s Liberty Bells, South Carolina’s Liberty Crescents, and backcountry rattl….Read More
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