This past Fourth of July, in fact, a few days before, I replaced the American flag on my brother’s (and his wife’s) military grave marker at St. Philip’s Catholic cemetery in ...

The Fourth of July is the perfect time to tell the story of America. But which one? Growing up in Canada, I learned a peculiar version in school. It started with the slaughter of the natives and ...

By 1819, the year in which Krimmel exhibited Fourth of July Celebration in Centre Square, the event had become a largely white working class celebration, in contrast to earlier years when blacks ...