A good book can make your day. Once in a great while you find a book that changes your life. I have discovered a book series that, if the publisher succeeds, will change the lives of the next generation of Americans. The book series is from Libraries of Hope and is called the Freedom Series, featuring 12 beautiful, hard-bound collections of forgotten but true stories of the men & women who founded, built, and have defended America. Watch the 3 minute promo video:
Our family signed up for the series (it’s a 12-month subscription, one book each month) two months ago and have since received Stories of Great Americans, Stories of the Pilgrims, and Stories of Christopher Columbus. The stories are reprints from old treasures (some going back to the 1600s); they are easy to read, many can be read in five minutes or less. We like to read them at the dinner table, but they are perfect for bed-time, on a road trip, or whenever you have an extra five minutes and want some inspiration.
Libraries of Hope is on a mission. As founder Marlene Peterson puts it:
“…stories have the power to shape and change lives. A personal reservoir of stories increases hope and diminishes the paralyzing effects of fear. Our mission is to serve families by providing stories that offer hope, build faith and character and inspire greatness.”
Your books do just that. Thank you, Marlene.
This is a marvelous undertaking. Stories are very important. They form our culture. They have huge potential to lift or destroy morale. Thank you! I shall try to add this worthy collection to my library, read them and share them with my students. I hope that you have included stories from the Civil War of the United States. I have studied this era recently and found their were many uplifting stories that I had never heard, or at least not the whole of them, before, ie. the story of Taylor Blow and Dred Scott, the foundation of Howard University, Booker T. Washington’s Tuskagee school and the friendship of Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman, etc.
Thanks for your kinds words. I’ll pass them on to the publisher…
I like this idea. My hope is that these stories are full of virtuous principles, not jingoistic ones.
James, most of the stories are by pre-1917 authors. The oldest one so far is from the 1600s: William Bradford’s first-hand account of the Mayflower Pilgrims and Plymouth Plantation.
The stories are all easy to read, as most of them are for young audiences. They vary in tone, and language. All the stories illustrate what I would consider to be virtuous principles, by exemplifying virtuous people, both famous and obscure. By reading them, I have a renewed sense of gratitude for the early explorers, settlers and founders of America, and have increased my knowledge of where we came from. If, by “jingoistic” you mean advocating an aggressive foreign policy, I have not encountered anything like that so far.