# How the Founders’ Revolutionary Ideas Emerged: Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Sarah M.S. Pearsall

The founding of the U.S. did not, and does not, exist in a vacuum. Lindsay M. Chervinsky, a contributor to “The American Revolution and America’s Role in the World,” joins the conversation about the values of the nation’s inheritance with Sarah M.S. Pearsall, whose “Freedom Round the Globe” examines the international ideas that inspired the American Revolution. Moderated by Kevin Butterfield. Sponsor: Kluge Center.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2026
- Runtime: 58 min
- By: Butterfield, Kevin
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-12309/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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