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Heath, Robert L. – 1976
The historical rhetoric, mythic heroes, and values of the American Revolution have become the justification for many other contemporary "revolutions." Collective movements advocating states' independence, the abolition of slavery, women's rights, civil rights, and so on, have manipulated the concept of heroic equality as it is embodied…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Democratic Values, Feminism, Political Influences
