Beyond the Book: "The Unknown American Revolution"

This year, we'll explore the histories and stories of the American Revolution, to the Mohawk Valley and beyond. Our first read is "The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America" by Gary B. Nash.

Participation is FREE for FCHS members or $10 for non-members (payable at the door). Meetings take place at the Fulton County Historical Society and include a close-up examination of a relevant item from our collection and light refreshments. Pre-registration is required: https://forms.gle/CCbc3iBfa4VKwhn36

In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book did not all agree or succeed, but during the exhilarating and messy years of this country's birth, they laid down ideas that have become part of our inheritance and ideals toward which we still strive today.