Join us for the first lecture in our 2025/2026 series, Revisiting the American Revolution: Part II.

What is there about the American Revolution we all ought to know? What did the Revolutionary generation accomplish? How did the Revolution shape the 250 years that followed and how does it touch our lives today? Jack Warren will distill his answers to these questions, focusing on the ways the Revolution changed the lives of ordinary Americans, articulated ideals that have defined our history, and continues to shape our world.

About the speaker:
Jack Warren is an historian of the American Revolution and American public life. He is the author, most recently, of Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution (2023). He served on the faculty of the University of Virginia, where he edited The Papers of George Washington, and as executive director of the Society of the Cincinnati, where he was the founding director of the American Revolution Institute. He is currently chief executive of the Foundation of American Ideals, an organization dedicated to popular understanding of American history and edits the foundation’s magazine, The American Crisis (www.americanideal.org). He is an historical advisor to the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission. A native of Washington, D.C, he lives in Alexandria, Virginia. He was the featured speaker on Washington in a series of history dialogues for members of Congress and published in David Rubenstein’s The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians. He has also appeared on the PBS NewsHour, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, American Presidents, and NPR’s All Things Considered. A native of Washington, DC, he lives in Alexandria, Virginia.