The Revolution, in short, gave birth to whatever sense of nationhood and national purpose Americans have had.
Lincoln saw as well that the Revolution had convinced Americans that they were a special people with a special destiny to lead the world toward liberty.
Our noblest ideals and aspirations-our commitments to freedom, constitutionalism, the well-being of ordinary people, and equality-came out of the Revolutionary era. He knew that the Revolution not only had legally created the United States, but also had produced all of the great hopes and values of the American people. When Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of the United States, he naturally looked back to the American Revolution. Ellis, author of Founding BrothersĪ magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American republic. “An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years.” -Joseph J.
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