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America Turns 250… But what if?
This post America Turns 250… But what if? appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Today, let’s discuss “America 250,” in which the country celebrates a quarter-millennium since the Declaration of Independence. It ought to be big news. Indeed, I recall the 200th na…
Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Complicated Commemorations
Jelani Cobb on observing the Declaration of Independence on previous landmark anniversaries—in the wake of the Civil War, the Vietnam War, Watergate—and why we are unlikely to see Donald Trump presiding over nuanced celebrations of our history this July 4th.