Founders of America Month

The story of the American Revolution is ingrained in us at a young age, but what we think we know is not always the whole story.  For example, did you know that the Constitution was argued over for months and nearly did not get ratified?  In aid to this, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote what are known as The Federalist Papers to defend the constitution to the people and to persuade the men who were voting.  

Most recently, our perception of history has been challenged in the arena of entertainment as the massively popular Broadway musical Hamilton.  A new way of looking at the founding fathers as young, ambitious, and (crucially) of different ethnicity's, has made them far more accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds.  

 

A key to remembering the founding of America is that there were the men who wrote the country into being, and there were the women who not only assisted, but actively participated in subverting the British.  Acting as wives, mothers, supports, but also as spies who could report on the British, as seen in Carol Berkin's book Revolutionary Mothers, women were integral to the foundation of our young country.  (For more on this see:  Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts.)

The Founding of America was full of birth pangs and the men and women were full of imperfections, but ultimately they formed the hub of what is the wheel of modern America.