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If we are to preserve and improve our democracy, the work must be our own and every individual citizen has a responsibility.
And Douglass did so, it is worth noting, by championing the same founding principles that he celebrated in his Fourth of July ...
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Amidst the list of America’s founding fathers who are inextricably linked with the 4th of July, one name sticks out: George Washington. Thomas Jefferson. Benjamin Franklin. Pyotr Ilyich ...
The battle site, Riverbend Park, has a history of human habitation dating back 5,000 years. The Second Seminole War was part ...
The U.S. gets almost all of its fireworks from China, and the industry is warning that tariffs on Chinese imports could limit ...
At each major crossroad in America’s history — the Revolutionary War, the westward migration, the Civil War, the Great ...
The Soldier and the Revolutionary War” opened June 7 on the Army’s 250th birthday. It has artifacts never before displayed ...
America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker. While Bates’ ...
President Trump will start the countdown to next summer’s Semiquincentennial with an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Not ...
We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4, 1776?
President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to deliver a “spectacular” yearlong birthday party to mark 250 years of ...