The American Revolution: Examining its Legacy in Culture and Education

This essay examines the American Revolution and its enduring legacy in popular culture and education. It discusses how the Fourth of July celebrations, memorials like Mount Vernon and Bunker Hill, and organizations such as the National Park Service and the Civil War Trust help preserve the history of the revolution. The essay also acknowledges the role of history textbooks in keeping the memory of the war alive within education. Furthermore, it critically addresses the myth of equality propagated during the revolution, highlighting the subsequent realities of slavery and discrimination against non-white minorities in the post-independence era, which undermined the revolution's initial promises of societal change.

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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).
The rhetoric of oppression and inequality was played upon to wage the war of
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).

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References
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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.