1AMERICAN REVOLUTION The American Revolution is the event which had led to the overthrowing of the colonial rule of Britain and the ushering of a new era when America became a sovereign nation. That was a landmark event and its legacy is alive even today in popular culture and in education. With regard to the keeping alive of the American Revolution in the popular culture, the fourth of July is celebrated as the Independence Day each year. It is observed as a national holiday and some popular spots are visited by the people on that day. Those sites include the memorial at Mount Vernon dedicated the martyred soldiers, Bunker Hill and George Washington’s Estate. Apart from that the National Park Service has dedicated itself to the owning and maintaining of battlefield parks of the revolution era and the Civil War Trust has taken the responsibility of unearthing and providing the historicity of the battlefields. There are also other organizations which ensure the preservation of the history of the war of independence. With regard to the field of education, the history text books have kept the American War of Independence alive (Heideking, 2017). Therhetoricofoppressionandinequalitywasplayedupontowagethewarof independence but that was a myth and it was realized in the post independence period. The system of slavery and the illtreatment of the black and other non white minorities began in the post war period. That made the revolution and its promises of changing the lives of all sections of the society a myth (Welch, 2016).
2AMERICAN REVOLUTION References Heideking, J. (2017). The pattern of American modernity from the revolution to the civil war. In Multiple Modernities(pp. 219-248). Routledge. Welch Jr, R. E. (2016).Response to Imperialism: The United States and the Philippine- American War, 1899-1902. UNC Press Books.