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I'm Hugh Hewitt.

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for Hillsdale.com. We're taking a couple of week breaks from Winston Churchill,

my early life, because we got some special events to commemorate. It's been 250

years since the American Revolution began.

So I turned to Hillsdale's own Matt Spalding,

gain of their graduate school of statesmanship in Washington, D.C.,

and the possessor of many fine books.

Matt, that is a heck of a collection of books you got there.

Are they all American Revolutionary Books?

These are just my revolution books to keep me up working on my current projects.

Well, I'm impressed, and I'm amazed, and I'm excited, because, you know, we didn't really

pause on the 19th and the 20th to re-fight the battle of Lexington and Concord

or the events leading up there too. So when you were available, I said, let's make sure we

haven't got a nation of illiterate about our founding. So take us where are we starting? Are we

starting in the French and Indian wars or where are we beginning

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