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A 1912 painting by Edward Percy Moran shows Francis Scott Key pointing to the American flag at Fort McHenry in Baltimore.

The National Anthem Was a 19th-Century Meme

Like many patriotic songs of its time, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ was created by fitting a popular tune with topical new lyrics.
by Mark Clague via The Wall Street Journal on June 11, 2022
The raised fists of a crowd of protesters.

We Have to Face History No Matter How Hard We Try to Erase It.

Let’s remember that performative anti-racism is as profitable politically as racism has been.
by Peter Van Buren via The American Conservative on July 5, 2021
"Head of a Negro" (1777 or 1778), by John Singleton Copley.

The Declaration of Independence’s Debt to Black America

When African Americans allied themselves with the British, the Patriots were enraged, and they acted.
by Woody Holton via Washington Post on July 2, 2021
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"It Has Not Been My Habit to Yield"

Charles Sumner and the fight for equal naturalization rights.
by Lucy E. Salyer via HNN on July 5, 2020

Growing Up with Juneteenth

How a Texan holiday became a national tradition.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via The New Yorker on June 19, 2020
Donald Trump.
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How Trump’s Airport Gaffe Masked A Dangerous Misunderstanding of the Revolutionary War

America won its freedom thanks to strong alliances.
by Lawrence B. A. Hatter via Made By History on July 12, 2019

In Defense of the American Revolution

1776 began as a petty squabble among odious and powerful elites. It soon became the lodestar of emancipatory movements everywhere.
by Tom Cutterham via Jacobin on July 4, 2019

Stop Calling it ‘The Great Migration’

For people of color watching over their shoulder, the fear of police interference harkens back to a historical moment with a much-too-benign label.
by Brentin Mock via CityLab on July 4, 2018
Cartoon drawing of George Washington reading the Declaration of Independence to his militia army.

What You Might Not Know About the Declaration of Independence

July 4th celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence, but we don’t even have the original!
by Maki Naro via The Nib on July 4, 2018
Allegorical lithograph entitled "Reconstruction," by J. L. Giles in 1867.
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Why the Second American Revolution Deserves as Much Attention as the First

The first revolution articulated American ideals. The second enacted them.
by Gregory P. Downs via Made By History on July 19, 2017

America's 100 Other Declarations of Independence

The document we celebrate today wasn't just the work of Thomas Jefferson's individual genius. Everyone was doing it.
by David Greenberg via Politico Magazine on July 4, 2017

An Independence Day Alternative

How "enlightened" leaders of the early US ignored an Independence Day speech and set in motion indigenous peoples' brutalization.
by Nicholas Guyatt via Jacobin on July 4, 2017

The Souring of American Exceptionalism

Commitment to liberalism once distinguished the U.S. Now, it’s the disdain of elites for their fellow citizens that sets the nation apart.
by David Frum via The Atlantic on July 3, 2017

At Its Core, the Declaration of Independence Was a Plea for Help From Britain’s Enemies

The intended audience for the document could be found in the royal houses of France and Spain.
by Larrie D. Ferreiro via Smithsonian on June 28, 2017

America’s Most Political Food

The founder of a popular South Carolina barbecue restaurant was a white supremacist.
by Lauren Collins via The New Yorker on April 24, 2017

Not Our Independence Day

The Founding Fathers were more interested in limiting democracy than securing and expanding it.
by William Hogeland, Jonah Walters via Jacobin on July 4, 2016
Soldiers with arms and fortifications in a street in Bolivia.

Our Fellow American Revolutionaries

When residents of the U.S. came to see Latin Americans as partners in a shared revolutionary experiment.
by Caitlin Fitz, Timothy Shenk via Dissent on June 30, 2016

Why Americans Love To Declare Independence

The 1776 Declaration was only the first. What we learn from the long history of splinter constitutions, manifestos, and secessions that followed.
by Robert L. Tsai via Boston Globe on June 29, 2014

Food in America and American Foodways

Rachel Herrmann asks whether there’s such a thing as “American food.”
by Rachel B. Herrmann via The Junto on July 3, 2013
Fisher Ames, Founding Father and arch-foe of democracy.

Died on the 4th of July

Fisher Ames’s philosophy can be summed up as follows: the “power of the people, if uncontroverted, is licentious and mobbish.”
by Stephen B. Tippins via The American Conservative on July 3, 2012

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