The Freedom Book: Rediscovering America's Third Founding Document

In his speech that follows, author and historian Dr. Joseph Loconte surveys the influence of the Judaic and Christian Scriptures on cultural and political leaders at key moments in America’s struggle for liberty. He argues that the theme of freedom in the Hebrew Scriptures and Christian Bible has captured the moral imagination of revolutionaries and reformers from the founding era to the present day, and that this “Freedom Book” has been both inspirational and even foundational to defining America’s ideals, and institutions and purposes in the world.