Independence Hall in American Memory

By Charlene Mires
6.25” x 9.5”, 352 pages
In this book, the author rediscovers and chronicles the lost history of Independence Hall, in the process exploring the shifting perceptions of this most important building in America’s popular imagination. Providing an assessment of the full range of political, cultural, and social history that has swirled about it for nearly three centuries, Independence Hall, the most revered symbol of the American republic, is revealed as a place of contradictions, where the nation’s ideals have been defined and contested, expanded and limited.