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In 1992, I gave a talk in Williamsburg, Virginia on the founding of America called This Hallowed Ground. Little did I know that twenty-two years later, Charlotte Cushman's book, Your Life Belongs to You, would be a result. When I first heard about this book I was extremely skeptical. Telling children about American history is one thing, but conveying the significance of that history quite another. I didn't think it could be done. But Your Life Belongs to You takes the essentials of America's story and explains why the idea of individual rights was unique in history and is the moral base of America.... This is a book that needs to be spread far and wide across the America I love and that Americans should love. It needs to be read to children, and when they are old enough, they need to read it themselves. And yes, even adults need to read it. Americans need to understand the magnitude of the Founding Fathers' accomplishment because your life does, indeed, belong to you. --John Ridpath John Ridpath was professor of economics and intellectual history at York University in Toronto, Canada. Over the span of his career he lectured and wrote about the history of ideas and their impact on social change, with special reference to the ideas influencing the Founding Fathers and early American history This is a book that needs to be spread far and wide across the America I love and that Americans should love. It needs to be read to children, and when they are old enough, they need to read it themselves. And yes, even adults need to read it. Americans need to understand the magnitude of the Founding Fathers' accomplishment because your life does, indeed, belong to you. - John Ridpath, former professor of economics and intellectual history at York University in Toronto, Canada.

In 1992, I gave a talk in Williamsburg, Virginia on the founding of America called This Hallowed Ground. Little did I know that twenty-two years later, Charlotte Cushman's book, Your Life Belongs to You, would be a result.When I first heard about this book I was extremely skeptical. Telling children about American history is one thing, but conveying the significance of that history quite another. I didn't think it could be done. But Your Life Belongs to You takes the essentials of America's story and explains why the idea of individual rights was unique in history and is the moral base of America....This is a book that needs to be spread far and wide across the America I love and that Americans should love. It needs to be read to children, and when they are old enough, they need to read it themselves. And yes, even adults need to read it. Americans need to understand the magnitude of the Founding Fathers' accomplishment because your life does, indeed, belong to you.--John RidpathJohn Ridpath was professor of economics and intellectual history at York University in Toronto, Canada. Over the span of his career he lectured and wrote about the history of ideas and their impact on social change, with special reference to the ideas influencing the Founding Fathers and early American history This is a book that needs to be spread far and wide across the America I love and that Americans should love. It needs to be read to children, and when they are old enough, they need to read it themselves. And yes, even adults need to read it. Americans need to understand the magnitude of the Founding Fathers' accomplishment because your life does, indeed, belong to you. - John Ridpath, former professor of economics and intellectual history at York University in Toronto, Canada.

In 1992, I gave a talk in Williamsburg, Virginia on the founding of America called This Hallowed Ground. Little did I know that twenty-two years later, Charlotte Cushman's book, Your Life Belongs to You, would be a result. When I first heard about this book I was extremely skeptical. Telling children about American history is one thing, but conveying the significance of that history quite another. I didn't think it could be done. But Your Life Belongs to You takes the essentials of America's story and explains why the idea of individual rights was unique in history and is the moral base of America.... This is a book that needs to be spread far and wide across the America I love and that Americans should love. It needs to be read to children, and when they are old enough, they need to read it themselves. And yes, even adults need to read it. Americans need to understand the magnitude of the Founding Fathers' accomplishment because your life does, indeed, belong to you. --John Ridpath John Ridpath was professor of economics and intellectual history at York University in Toronto, Canada. Over the span of his career he lectured and wrote about the history of ideas and their impact on social change, with special reference to the ideas influencing the Founding Fathers and early American history

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Charlotte Cushman attended Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, where she majored in elementary education. Immediately upon graduation, she took Montessori training at the AMI Montessori Training Center in Palo Alto, CA from Lena Wikramaratne (a colleague and friend of Maria Montessori). She then taught at Montessori schools for twelve years and in 1985 she co-founded her own school, Independence Montessori, and later joined her husband's school, Minnesota Renaissance School. Your Life Belongs to You is the story she told her students over the years about the founding of the United States of America.

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