Nothing Happened on the Fourth
Step away from the grill: Bestselling historian Joseph Ellis says we're celebrating our nation's independence on the wrong day. How history screwed up the date.
David McCullough's 1776 seems appropriate for our times. It reminds us in that year that almost everything was going wrong for the colonists and doom was inevitable in everyone's eyes, the combination of great leaders, great perseverance...
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