How the American Revolution kicked off a global 'Age of Revolutions'

As the United States honors its workers this Labor Day, it's been 250 years since the nation was founded. A defining ideal in the Declaration of Independence is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," but when it was written, they were meant to not only be American pursuits. The Declaration explicitly addresses the larger world. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with historian Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, author of the 2024 book The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It."

This story originally aired on June 4, 2026.