Give Me Liberty

USD $24.95

Specification

Paperback with flaps

ISBN: 978-1-913875-58-9

152 pages

235 x 184 mm (7 ¼ x 9 ¼ in)

94 colour illustrations

In association with the Virginia Museum of History & Culture

July 2025

Description

A signature souvenir volume celebrating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and exploring its impact and legacy in Virginia.

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This important new publication explores the central role of Virginia and Virginians in the American Revolution. Featuring rich illustrations, the volume highlights how figures from the largest colony in British North America helped shape what would become the United States. Iconic individuals like Washington, Jefferson and Madison are revisited with new perspectives, alongside the ordinary people—caught up in extraordinary events—who are introduced for the first time. 

By presenting engaging essays alongside artifacts, artwork and documents, the volume emphasises the central notion that Virginia’s story is deeply entwined with that of the United States: complex, diverse and inspiring. By examining Revolutionary sentiment in the American backcountry, religion in the Revolution, the interaction of Black Virginians with print culture and more, the book offers a wide-ranging narrative of a colony-turned-state at the very heart of the American Revolution. 

Antonio T. Bly is Peter H. Shattuck Endowed Chair in Colonial American History at California State University, Sacramento.

Woody Holton is professor of History at the University of South Carolina.

Sarah E. McCartney is assistant teaching professor, National Institute of American History & Democracy, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA.

Alan Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair (Emeritus) at the University of Virginia.

Karin Wulf is a historian and the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, RI.

Table of Contents

    • Foreword by Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation CEO Christy Coleman
    • Introduction by Kate Gruber
    • Origins of the American Revolution by Woody Holton
    • Revolutionary Sentiment in the Virginian Backcountry by Sarah McCartney
    • Revolution and Religion in Virginia by Alan Taylor
    • Black Virginians and Print Culture by Antonio Bly
    • Virginia Families During and After the Revolution by Karin Wulf
    • Afterword by Jamie O. Bosket
    • Index