Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer joined the Ashbrook Center's 2006 Presidential Academy program to deliver a lecture on The Revolutionary Era. He explored questions including: How did the American colonists define liberty and freedom as they sought to secure their independence from mother England? During the Revolutionary War, what difficulties did the Americans face in fighting for liberty while maintaining the supremacy of civilian over military authority? To listen to his lecture, click here. The post Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian David Hackett Fischer on the American Revolution appeared first on Teaching American History.
