Podcast with Jane Cook on America at 250
Topic: “This Year Make a Resolution to Know the American Revolution.”
Our nation’s 250th birthday is coming up soon. And yet many Americans today do not appreciate our nation’s history and the sacrifices so many of founding fathers underwent that we might be free. Our 2nd president John Adams once remarked: “Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.” One contemporary historian, Jane Hampton Cook, is doing her part to help current Americans appreciate what we have in our nation. She has written books about faith and the history of America, including the Civil War and the Revolutionary War. Jane wrote an article, “This Year Make a Resolution to Know the American Revolution,” in which she notes, “As I started researching, I was skeptical. Was George Washington overrated? Are stories from 1776 relevant to life today? How can we relate to people who lived 250 years ago?….I cannot explain how deeply transformative studying the American Revolution was for me. It completely changed my understanding of what the United States is all about and how it came to be.” Historian Jane Hampton Cook, author of such books as Stories of Faith and Courage from the Revolutionary War, joins Jerry Newcombe on getting Americans to appreciate God and country. www.janecook.com
