Yuval Levin

What are three books you'd recommend to the audience?

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That's a great question.

And that's one that people have been debating for the past couple of years.

You know, is this commemoration?

Is it celebration?

What is the tone and tenor of what it is that we are doing?

I was born and raised in Philadelphia, and so I've always had the history of the American Revolution right in my own backyard.

I think what gives me comfort, and I can probably speak for a lot of my peers as well, or at least if not comfort, then a sense of groundedness.

is that we have never had one clear understanding of what America was or is as a nation.

We at the Museum of the American Revolution, our entire mission is about uncovering and sharing information

these compelling stories about diverse people and complex events that sparked this ongoing experiment in liberty, equality, and self-government.

The coolest thing, like the thing that you were greeted by when you walk into the exhibition is this display that's got two things on it.